How to work with jars and Ant ????????????????????

manolakis · 03-22-2007, 08:41 PM

Hey there!!!
Is anyone familiar working with Ant and jar files. I downloaded 2 packages jcommon and jfreechart which both of them have an ant folder with some build.xml files.
What i just want is to use the package but i am finding difficulties with compiling a demo java file. Could anyone illustrate the basics for a java programmer that hasn't worked with jar files?

Thanks very much for your time

jlliagre · 03-23-2007, 03:42 AM

jar files are the java equivalent of dynamic loaded libraries.
ant is roughly the equivalent of make, and build.xml its "Makefile".

You may want to try using the netbeans IDE, which uses ant internally as its build command so is able to import flawlessly an existing project having its own build.xml file.

manolakis · 03-23-2007, 04:54 AM

I just installed NetBeans but i found some problem with my /etc/profile
Would you mind if ask your advice? I try to set up the PATH according to this
my /etc/profile now looks like this:
# For non-root users, add the current directory to the search path:

Quote:

if [ ! "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then
export JAVA_HOME=/home/manos/Desktop/downloads/jdk1.6.0
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
export ANT_HOME=/home/manos/Desktop/downloads/apache-ant-1.7.0
export PATH=${PATH}:${ANT_HOME}/bin
fi

Any ideas will be welcomed
Thanks