Overview

Commons IO uses Maven or Ant as a build system.

You may also be interested in the upgrade notes:

Upgrade from 1.3, or 1.3.1 to 1.3.2

Upgrade from 1.3 to 1.3.1

Upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3

Upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2

Upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1

Maven Goals

To build a jar file, change into IO's root directory and run "maven jar". The result will be in the "target" subdirectory.

To build the Javadocs, run "maven javadoc". The result will be in "target/docs/apidocs".

To build the full website, run "maven site". The result will be in "target/docs". You must be online and using JDK 1.4 or higher to successfully complete this target.

Further details can be found in the commons build instructions.

Ant Goals

To build a jar file, change into IO's root directory and run "ant jar". The result will be in the "build" subdirectory.

To build the Javadocs, run "ant javadoc". The result will be in "build/dist-build".