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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by "Siberski, Wolf" <Wo...@tui.de> on 2000/12/04 09:48:52 UTC
RE: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/docs VAJAntTool.html
Thanks for committing the new doc file.
Unfortunately the other files of the
VAJ plugin aren't committed yet because
Glenn and I weren't sure about what's
the right place in the source tree.
My opinion at the moment is to throw them into
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ide,
because it doesn't seem to be worth it
to create a new directory for three files.
But I'm open to any solution, as long
as the files make it into the cvs :-).
Wolf
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bodewig@locus.apache.org [mailto:bodewig@locus.apache.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 6:18 PM
> To: jakarta-ant-cvs@apache.org
> Subject: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/docs VAJAntTool.html
>
>
> bodewig 00/11/29 09:18:24
>
> Added: docs VAJAntTool.html
> Log:
> Documentation for Ant <-> VA for Java integration.
>
> Submitted by: Siberski, Wolf <Wo...@tui.de>
>
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.1 jakarta-ant/docs/VAJAntTool.html
>
> Index: VAJAntTool.html
> ===================================================================
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1">
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
> <title>Ant VisualAge for Java Tool Integration</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <h1>Ant PlugIn for VisualAge for Java</h1>
> <a name="authors"></a>by
> <ul>
> <li>Wolf Siberski (<a href="mailto:wolf.siberski@tui.de">
> wolf.siberski@tui.de</a>)</li>
> <li>Christoph Wilhelms (<a
> href="mailto:christoph.wilhelms@tui.de">
> christoph.wilhelms@tui.de</a>)</li>
> </ul>
> Version 1.0 - 2000/11/09<br>
> <hr>
> <h2>Table of Contents</h2>
> <ul>
> <li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
> <li><a href="#installation">Installation</a></li>
> <li><a href="#usage">Usage</a></li>
> <li><a href="#faq">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li>
> <li><a href="#va_versions">Visual Age Versions</a></li>
> </ul>
> <hr>
> <h2><a name="introduction"></a>Introduction</h2>
> Visual Age for Java is a great Java IDE, but it lacks
> decent build support
> for creating deliveries. On the other hand, Ant supports
> the build process
> very good, but is (at least at the moment) command line
> based. So we decided
> to write a small visual Ant frontend to make running Ant
> from VAJ possible.
> We use the Tool API to integrate Ant in VisualAge for Java.
> In combination
> with the VAJ targets (vajload, vajexport, vajimport) you
> can load defined
> defined versions of projects into your workspace, export
> the source code,
> compile it with an external compiler and build a jar
> without leaving the
> IDE. Of course compile messages are viewed in a logging
> window. Concluding:
> This tool provides a comfortable deployment VAJ has not
> (out of the box)!<br>
> <hr>
> <h2><a name="installation"></a>Installation</h2>
> At the moment the installation has it's rough edges. If
> something described
> below doesn't work for You, it's probably not Your fault
> but incomplete/wrong
> instructions. In this case, please contact one of the <a
> href="#authors">
> authors</a>.<br>
> We assume <font face="Courier">C:\IBMVJava</font> as VAJ
> install directory.
> If You have installed it elsewhere, adapt the pathes below.
> Execute following
> steps to get the PlugIn up and running:
> <ul>
> <li>import the Ant sources into VAJ.</li>
> <li>import an appropriate XML parser to VAJ (we use
> Xerces 1.2.0 and are
> happy with it). Unfortunately the XML parser delivered
> with VAJ (in the
> project 'IBM XML Parser for Java') doesn't work with
> Ant. You have to
> remove that project (temporarily) from the workspace
> before importing
> another XML implementation.</li>
> <li>Create the directory <font face="Courier">
> C:\IBMVJava\ide\tools\org-apache-tools-ant</font>.</li>
> <li>export the Ant and XML parser class files into this
> directory. Be sure
> to select class files and resources. Sources don't have
> to be exported.
> Some optional tasks have errors and can't be exported
> when You don't have
> the necessary packages in Your workspace (e.g. junit
> task, ejbc task).
> If You need this tasks either import these packages
> into VAJ, too,
> or copy the .class files directly from the binary
> distribution</li>
> <li>copy <font face="Courier">default.ini</font> (in
> <font
> face="Courier">jakarta-ant\src\...\taskdefs\optional\ide</font>)
> to <font face="Courier">
>
> C:\IBMVJava\ide\tools\org-apache-tools-ant\default.ini</font>.</li>
> <li>if you want to access this help from the
> Workbench, create the
> directory <font face="Courier">
> C:\IBMVJava\ide\tools\org-apache-tools-ant\doc</font>
> and copy the files
> <font face="Courier">VAJAntTool.html</font>,
> <font face="Courier">toolmenu.gif</font> and
> <font face="Courier">anttool1.gif</font> to it.</li>
> <li>VAJ has to be restarted to recognize the new tool.</li>
> <li>Now if You open the context menu of a project, You
> should see the entry
> 'Ant Build' in the Tools submenu (see <a
> href="#usage">Usage</a>).</li>
> <li>Make sure the tool works as expected. Now You can
> remove Ant and the
> imported XML parser from Your workspace (and optionally
> add the IBM parser
> again).</li>
> </ul>
> <hr>
> <h2><a name="usage"></a>Usage</h2>
> Beeing sure the tool is installed correctly and your Ant
> build file is
> configured, it is really easy to use.<br>
> Go to your Workbench, select the project you want to deploy and open
> its context menu. In the submenu <i>Tools</i> you should
> find the new
> entry <i>Ant Build</i>. Klick it to start the tool!
> <p><center><img src="toolmenu.gif" border="0" height="246"
> width="393">
> </center></p>
> After a short time this frame should pop up:
> <p><center><img src="anttool1.gif" border="0" height="222"
> width="389">
> </center></p>
> This frame contains the following:
> <ul>
> <li>A menubar with some options described later</li>
> <li>The name of your selected VAJ project</li>
> <li>An entry field for the Ant XML buildfile with a
> browse [...] button. The
> full qualified filename, including the directory is
> needed here.</li>
> <li>A list with tasks specified in the buildfile. Until
> your first save of
> the build info (described later), this list will be
> empty. When loading a
> build file by the <i>Reload Project</i> button, this
> list is filled with
> all tasks which have a description attribute. The task
> you select in this
> list will be executed when pressing the <i>Execute
> Task</i> button.</li>
> <li>A pulldown box for specifying the log level.</li>
> <li>Three buttons. Two of them I have already described
> and the third one
> is just the <i>Close </i>button to exit our small tool!</li>
> </ul>
> After you have set up your buildprocess you might find it
> useful to save
> the data you've just entered, so we implemented an option
> to save it to
> the repository into your selected project. Make sure that
> you have an open
> edition of your project before selecting <i>Save BuildInfo
> To Repository</i>
> from the <i>File</i> menu. Now your information is saved to
> this edition
> of your project and will be loaded automatically the next
> time you start
> <i>Ant Build</i>.<br>
> If you have closed the log window accidentally, it can be
> reopened with
> the <i>Log</i> item in the <i>File</i> menu, and if you
> want to know who
> developed this, just select <i>About</i> in the <i>Help</i> menu.
> <br>
> <hr>
> <h2><a name="faq"></a>Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
> <p>F: I want to load, export and build more then one Visual
> Age project to
> one jar! How to?<br>
> A: The VA tasks are able to load and export several Projects all at
> once. You can choose whatever project you like for storing the tool
> information, it doesn't really matter.</p>
> <hr>
> <h2><a name="va_versions"></a>VisualAge for Java Versions</h2>
> This tool integration has been tested with versions 3.02
> and 3.5 of VisualAge
> for Java. It should run with the 2.x Versions, too, but we
> didn't try.
> The graphical user interface is build with AWT so it is JDK
> independent
> by now!<br>
> <hr>
> <p><center>Copyright © 2000 Apache Software Foundation.
> All rights Reserved.</center></p>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
>
>
Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/docs VAJAntTool.html
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
Wolf Siberski <Wo...@tui.de> wrote:
> Thanks for committing the new doc file.
> Unfortunately the other files of the
> VAJ plugin aren't committed yet because
> Glenn and I weren't sure about what's
> the right place in the source tree.
I wasn't sure either, but I'd like to keep it separate from the
sources - maybe we should create a new docs/ide directory where others
could contribute stuff as well (the Emacs/JDE questions that pop up
every now and then could get some kind of authoritative answer there
once we have a jde-ant-mode in the repository for example).
Stefan