Ant Configure

Central repository to keep base configure.xml and all its shameful trickery.

Ant targets

TODO: Describe it before Sun goes nova.

These are the available targets:

• ant build-stage: build the stage with Apache Karaf ready to run the examples

• ant build-all: builds all available subprojects;

• ant clean: removes the build and dist directories;

• ant zero: same as clean, but also removes the cache directory with all downloaded tools;

• ant configure: rebuild the library and tools cache.

Key Directories and Files

Important directories to be aware of:

• cache - stores the downloaded jars, custom tasks and other tools;

• stage - the local Apache Karaf installation built to test the subprojects.

Important Resources

Although these references are almost everywhere, they are important here because we’re heavily OSGi-oriented.

Be aware that you can find a lot more features to build OSGi projects on BND Tools.

Marcond’s notes: Unfortunatelly I’m still not prepared to deal with my addiction to Ant, that’s why it’s used. There are no religious issues here :)

• BND Tools: The standard OSGi tool to build artifacts.

• OSGi in Practice: Free, Creative Commons-licensed book on OSGi by Neil Bartlett.

• Tutorial Archive from OSGi Alliance: Lots of great articles and resources.

• OSGi Specifications: All OSGi specifications available from OSGi Alliance.

• OSGi Release 5 Javadoc: Browse online the javadocs for OSGi R5 APIs.

Copyright

This work is licensed under a Apache License, Version 2.0.