Utilized Ant to do Windchill Deployment

Albert Kuo

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Agenda

what is ant?

structure of ant

how does ant work?

How to utilize build.xml

Take eMemory for example

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What is ant

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A cross-platform build tool

Based on industry standards (Java and XML)

Compile Java code automatically

Open Source (development coordinated by the Apache Jakarta project)

Generate jar, ear, war, zip files automatically

What is Ant?

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Structure of Ant

Project : a top level collection of targets

Property: an Ant variable

Target: a collection of tasks executed to achieve a particular purpose (a goal)

Task: a unit of Ant execution (a step)

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How Does Ant Work?

Each Project will have a build file (build.xml)

Each build file will contain one or more Targets

The Target to be executed:

Is either explicitly selected on the command line

Or a project default Target is executed

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How Does Ant Work?

Each Target is executed only once

Each Target will contain one or more Tasks

Some Tasks are executed conditionally

Tasks are implemented as Java classes

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How to utilize build.xml

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take ememoy for example

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check the build files

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