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Chapter 28: Apache Ant and running BES examples 333

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Chapter 28Apache Ant and running BES

examples

Many of the BES examples now employ the Ant build script system. In addition

to Ant's core functionality, the BES version of Ant includes customized tasks

for several of the BES command line tools, including commands of the

following:

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appclient

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iastool

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java2iiop

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idl2java

These customized ant tasks have the following advantages over using exec or

apply directives:

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Customized ant tasks run under the VM used to launch the ant script,

hence they run faster and use less memory compared to spawning new

JVM's with the exec/apply commands.

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Customized tasks have a much simpler command syntax than the exec/

apply version.

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Ant features such as filesets and patternsets are available in a more natural

way.