Developer manual

Environment

Ant4x is a Java project, managed with:

• Mercurial SCM,
• Maven project build manager.

Quick steps:

• download and install Mercurial
• checkout ant4x:
  • anonymously : hg clone https://hg.code.sf.net/p/ant4x/hgroot ant4x-hgroot
  • or with a read/write access by creating a sourceforge account and asking for commit rights
• download and install your favorite IDE, for example Eclipse IDE for Java Developers,
• configure project (eclipse quick steps):
  • open eclipse ide and select workspace: path/to/ant4x parent dir
  • set: Project name = ant4x [*] use default location Default output folder = ant4x/dev/.build
  • click next
  • set: Source = dev/src/java Librairies = ANT_HOME/ant.jar, ANT_HOME/ant-launcher.jar, ANT_HOME/ant4x.jar
  • click finish
• download and install Maven

Compilation

Quick steps:

• cd dev
• mvn package

copy dev/target/ant4x-jar-with-dependancies to ANT_HOME/lib/ant4x.jar

Development

See: ant tutorial.