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You need to have a good understanding of Ant before
reading this tutorial. If you don't, I suggest you read the
Ant
User Manual first.
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This tutorial explains how to install Ant properly to be able to
run the Sample application provided with the Cactus distribution and
also build the Cactus distribution from the sources.
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Ant tasks needed by Cactus |
Cactus uses the following optional tasks of Ant :
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The
stylebook task : it is used to
build the Cactus web site and Cactus documentation. The Stylebook
version required by the Cactus build is
the Stylebook 1.0b3 for Xalan2 (named
stylebook-1.0-b3_xalan-2.jar ) which needs the Xalan 2.0
jar and the Xerces 1.3 jar. The stylebook task is not used by
the Cactus Sample application build process, so it is only needed
if you're building from the Cactus sources. This task is
normally found in the optional.jar Ant jar.
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The
junit task : it is used to run
the unit tests of Cactus itself and the Cactus unit tests of the
Sample application. This task is
normally found in the optional.jar Ant jar.
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The Cactus Sample application uses some Ant custom tasks provided
by Cactus in the
cactus-ant.jar jar file (
found in the lib/ directory where you unpacked the
Cactus distribution).
In order to simplify the installation of Ant and the gathering of
the required Ant tasks as described above, we provide a
prepackaged zip containing everything needed. This is available from
the downloads section.
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Installing Ant on Windows systems |
Follow the steps below to install Ant :
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Download Jakarta Ant
(
jakarta-ant-<version>-bin.zip ) from
here. I
recommend version 1.3 or above. Alternatively you can download the
prepackaged Ant version, as mentionned above.
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Unzip it in a directory. Let's call this directory
antroot ,
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Create an environment variable named
ANT_HOME that
points to the antroot directory,
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Modify the
PATH environment variable to include the
%ANT_HOME%\bin directory (so that you'll be able to type
ant in a DOS shell, in whatever directory and it will
call the %ANT_HOME%\bin\ant.bat script,
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Download the Ant optional task jar
(
jakarta-ant-<version>-optional.jar ) from
here
and put it in %ANT_HOME%\lib . Note that this step
is needed only if you haven't downloaded the prepackaged zip,
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If you haven't downloaded the prepackaged Ant zip, you'll need to
download the Stylebook 1.0b3 for Xalan 2 jar, the latest
Xalan, the latest
Xerces and the
latest JUnit jars. You'll also
need to ensure that you use a JAXP 1.1 parser (Ant 1.3 comes with
a JAXP 1.0 parser only, called
parser.jar . Ant 1.4
already bundles a JAXP 1.1 parser, called crimson.jar ).
You can download one (crimson) from
here. Put
all these jars in %ANT_HOME%\lib .
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You should ensure that the Ant optional jar that you download contains
the <stylebook> and <junit> tasks. Alternatively you can
download the prepackaged Ant zip as mentionned above.
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