A N T I D O T E | |
What is it? | |
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Antidote is the Java based GUI interface to the Ant build tool. | |
Status | |
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Antidote is in the early stages of development. Its usefulnes is limited, and | |
will not be distributed with the binary versions of Ant until it is deemed | |
featureful and robust enough for end user use. That being said, it currently | |
will load an Ant build.xml file, allow you to edit some of the file's | |
properties, save it, and launch a build starting at any target in the | |
project. | |
The Latest Version | |
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The latest version is the current CVS version, which may or may not be useful | |
at any given time. The source code is not being base-lined at any specific | |
version at this time. | |
Documentation | |
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Any documentation that exists for Antidote can be found in the antidote/docs | |
directory. Documentation is primarily developement based documentation as | |
Antidote is not yet mature enough for reliable user documentation. | |
Building | |
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Antidote requres JAXP 1.0.1 from Sun (http://java.sun.com/xml). Some time in | |
the future it is hoped at any w3c based XML will be usable, but at the | |
current time the Sun library is needed. The easiest way to install the | |
jaxp.jar and parsers.jar file that comes with the distribution is to copy | |
them into your $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext directory. | |
There is a build.xml file in the same directory as this file that will work | |
with Ant 1.2. It is recommended that Ant be built first (from ../..), | |
followed by this directory. By default, the compiled classes will be written | |
to ~/built/antidote/classes, but the JAR file and launch scripts are written | |
to the Ant build directory (~/build/ant). | |
Running | |
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Antidote requires at least Java 1.2 to run. | |
Upon successful building of Ant and Antidote (in that order), go to | |
~/build/ant/bin and run "antidote". You will probably have to set the | |
environment variable "ANT_HOME" to "~/build/ant" in the shell that you launch | |
antidote from. If desired, you can provide the build file to launch at statup | |
as the first argument on the command line to "antidote". | |
Licensing | |
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This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file | |
named "LICENSE" provided with this distribution. | |
Thanks for using Antidote. | |
The Apache Jakarta Project | |
<http://jakarta.apache.org/> |