ANT build.xml template

Just that I have it at one place. This is my ant build.xml template. It assumes a simple project structure:

src/ - all java soources in here
lib/
  devel/ - development libraries
  runtime/ - runtime libraries

If your project follows this struicture, you can get the following tasks out of the box:

Buildfile: build.xml

Main targets:

 clean          Clean
 compile        Compile all source files
 compile-tests  Compile all source files
 dist           Build library and pack jar file
 dist-one       Build library and pack jar file
 doc            Create Javadoc
 html-reports   Creates HTML from test reports
 test           Run JUnit Tests
Default target: dist

You can modify the properties to adapt different names or a different project structure. The script creates a target directory that contains the results.

Compiling and packing should work out of the box, but the test sections expects a junit and ant-junit jars in lib/devel. They can also be placed in one of Ants lib directories.

The build file

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