7.1. Connecting Ant to Eclipse
Problem
You want to start working with Ant from Eclipse, but you need to know how to connect Ant to Eclipse.
Solution
All you have to do is to add a build.xml file to
an Eclipse project. Eclipse will know that a file with that name
should be treated as an Ant build file.
Discussion
As an example, we’ll create an Ant build file,
build.xml, that builds an Eclipse project,
storing the resulting .class file in a
.jar file stored in the directory we want. To
follow along, create a Java Eclipse project named
AntProject.
Store the source for this project
in a
folder named src and the
output in a folder named bin. In the third step
of the New Project dialog, the Java Setting dialog, click the Source
tab and the Add Folder button. Then click the Create New Folder
button to open the New Folder dialog. Enter src in
the Folder name box and click OK twice. Eclipse will ask:
Do you want to remove the project as source folder and update build output folder to 'AntProject/bin'?
Click Yes, which gives you the results shown in Figure 7-1. Click Finish to finish creating the project,
which now includes src and
bin folders.
Figure 7-1. Creating the AntProject project
Add a new class, AntClass, in the
org.cookbook.ch07 package. We’re
just going to use some sample code in this class to display a
message, as shown in Example 7-1.
Example 7-1. Simple Ant test class
package org.cookbook.ch07; ...
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