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Chapter 28: Apache Ant and running BES examples 336

Building the example

For more information on the default values of these options, go to Chapter 29,

“iastool command-line utility”.

Multiple File Arguments

Many commands either act on multiple files or have options which can point to

multiple files. There are several ways to achieve this functionality in the

equivalent Ant task. For example, the iastool -merge command:

iastool -merge -target build\client.jar -type lib client\build\

local_client.jar build\local_stubs.jar

has the Ant equivalent:

<iasmerge target="${build.dir}/client.jar" type="lib" jars="client/build/

local_client.jar ;

build/local_stubs.jar" />

Note The files in the jars attribute must be separated by semi-colons (;) or colons (:)

- spaces and commas are not valid separators.

Ant provides a convenient <fileset> task to include multiple files:

</iasmerge>

The patternset feature of Ant can also be useful. The following alteration now

includes all of the jar files contained in the build directory and all of its sub-

directories:

</iasmerge>

Class path attributes can include multiple paths separated by semicolons:

<iasverify src="cart_beans_client.jar" role="DEPLOYER"

classpath="alib.jar;blib.jar" />

or use the <classpath> element:

</classpath>

Building the example

Note Many of the BES examples have their own readme.html files located in:

<install_dir>/examples

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