Chapter 9. Development using the Java 2 Software Development Kit

In this chapter we discuss how to develop and build a WebSphere application using the basic tools that come with the Java 2 Software Development Kit (SDK) and the base WebSphere Application Server product.

First we describe how the various files that make up a project may be organized in a directory structure, and how to use the SDK tools to compile and build J2EE modules for assembly into an application.

Next we investigate how Ant, a popular open source build tool from the Apache Jakarta project, can be used to automate these build tasks. It describes how to install and configure Ant to build the sample PiggyBank application.

The final part of this chapter discusses how to work with ...

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