I use ant plugin for eclipse.
from comman line I can write
ant clean all
What analog can I use with plugin?
UPDATE
what I can click after?
You can create one of the target and specify depends property of the targets you want to execute.
Refer to below sample code
<project name="some name" default="executeMultipleTargets">
<target name="executeMultipleTargets" depends="myTarget1,target2,target3,clean" >
<echo>Build Successfull....</echo>
</target>
</project>
Ant is considered an external tool. So you do not have a run configuration but an external tool configuration for ant runs. There even exists a sub-point "Ant Builds" in that window.
It is very strange that you do not have the option run as ant build when right-clicking an ant build file. I can only assume, you do not have the appropriate plugin (although that is installed by default).
But maybe you are satisfid by just creating an external tool configuration for running ant.
You can specify multiple targets in Ant GUI: open your build.xml file and in outline view right click desired target. Then select "Run as -> Ant build..." and check all desired targets.
You can go on eclipse-> external tools configurations, select in Targets tab your preferable ant targets and be executed in order.
Related
I am looking to make my development life a little easier. Currently I have to go through multiple steps to deploy my code base to a test environment to allow for QA to do their work. These steps are not difficult just that I want to automate it so that it can auto run twice a day.
One thing that I am having trouble figuring out what to do is to automate my build artifacts phase in IntelliJ. I have two modules in my IntelliJ projects and I build artifacts for one of them.
The steps I go to build the artifacts are
Build --> Build artifacts --> Select Artifact to build
I was wondering if something like Ant would be able to do the job? I am not familiar with Ant, so I thought I was ask people opinions on it first.
Ant can do what you want, but personally I prefer Gradle or Maven to build my projects. You can use them even to deploy your app into test servers. Here's a simple tutorial for you to start learning gradle (my favorite one at the moment)
Usually what I do is have my run/debug also build my artifacts. On the bottom of "Run/Debug Configurations" in Intellij you can add "Build Artifact" to "Before launch: Make, Activate tool window".
You can probably build the artifact with ant by generating build.xml through Menu --> Generate Ant Build but would have to keep it updated. Maven or Gradle is a better option in this regard.
Ideally though, you would want a CI tool like Jenkins (there are others) to deploy your code to your environments. So when you push (with your VCS) or trigger it, everything is built by Jenkins and sent to where it needs to be for the QA team.
http://codurance.com/2014/10/03/guide-to-deploying-artifacts-with-jenkins/
To build Artifact from command line I used Ant.
These are the steps:
Install Idea Ant Generator Plugin
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/14169-ant-build-generation
and use "generate ant build ..." to create an ant xml file of your project (and modules).
Open Ant tool window and add the file generated.
Click build.all.artifact to test the build
Now download Ant from Apache repository https://downloads.apache.org/ant/binaries/
Unzip and add the folder to your SYSTEM PATH.
Now from command line:
ant -buildfile myfileant.xml build.all.artifacts
In order to simplify Eclipse use for our newbie users, we want to add this features to Eclipse :
1) If the user click on Project ---->Clean... , eclipse launches also the ant clean target which is implemented in the build.xml file of the concerned project.
2) When the user saves the code, the ant build is launched automatically.
Any link or a starting point.
Thank you in advance
You can add an Ant build file to the builders for a project in project Properties > Builders. Click New... and select Ant Builder. You can then specify the build.xml and select the targets used for clean, manual build and auto build (run during save).
I have one Android Project. I created Junit test project for the same. I can build the both projects using ANT script independently. Now, I want to write the script which will call this ANT scripts and build the project. How I can do it ?
I am currently using Windows-Xp, eclipse- Galileo, jdk - 6
Use the ant task in ant.
You can then write a "binding" build.xml file which calls all of the other "build.xml" files with the appropriate tasks (in whatever appropriate order).
An example (from the manual)
<ant antfile="subproject/subbuild.xml" target="compile"/>
Which would then call the "compile" target in the subproject/subbuild.xml file.
I have an Eclipse Java project, not a plugin project. And the project has some external dependencies that I handle in two separate ant files. Everything works fine, but I want to force Eclipse to run the ant files everytime it builds my project.
How can I do that?
If this had been a plugin project I would have handled it in a customBuildCallbacks.xml and included it in my build.properties, but doesnt seem to work when its just a java project
Step 1: Add the build file to your ant view
Click the add button and select the build.xml file from the project. You can also drag the build.xml file onto the ant view (To add the ant view to your perpective, go to Window > Show View > Other…)
Step 2: Run as Ant Build
In your ant view, right click the newly added build file and select Run As > Ant Build… In the dialog window, select the ‘Hide internal targets not selected for execution’ option in the Targets tab. You can rename the builder in the box at the top of the window if you wish (I usually remove the trailing ‘build.xml’. Click Apply and Close.
Step 3: Setup automatic build
Right click on the project, select Properties, then Builders. Click Import. Before closing the screen, highlight the imported build and select edit. Go to the Targets tab select clean for ‘After a clean’ and deploy.local for ‘Auto build’. Apply the changes and close.
Step 4: Enable Auto Build
Go to Project > Build Automatically
source: http://www.simonwhatley.co.uk/using-ant-with-eclipse
Go to your project properties, select "Builders", and add a new Ant Builder. You may specify which targets to run at what time (during a clean, after a clean, etc.), and which resources (if any) to refresh in Eclipse after your ant target is executed.
Project/Builders/New/Ant Builder
There you can add your custom ant build.
At least with Eclipse 4.2 (Juno), the ability to auto-build with Ant has been removed. Under the builder configuration -> "Auto Build", there is a message: "". That said you, can still work around this by:
Follow the steps above for creating your Ant builder. This will create a file in projectDirectory/.externalToolBuilders.
Modify projectDirectory/.externalToolBuilders/YourLaunchName.launch:
You'll need to add auto, to this line: <stringAttribute key="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.ATTR_RUN_BUILD_KINDS" value="full,incremental,auto,"/>
Specify the target you want run for auto by adding: <stringAttribute key="org.eclipse.ant.ui.ATTR_ANT_AUTO_TARGETS" value="compile-jar,"/>
You can look at your Ant builder configuration and see that everything looks good:
What is the file build.xml?
I was wondering if it is a possibility to import this project in Eclipse or Netbeans using this build.xml. I tried to import the project but I get some errors since one part is created using J2ME and the other J2SE and I guess this file should be the configuration.
build.xml usually is an ant build script.
It contains information necessary to build the project to produce the desired output, be it Javadocs, a compiled project, or a JAR file.
I believe Eclipse has ant built-in, so it should be possible to execute the build.xml by choosing "Run As..." and "Ant Build".
The build.xml file, if it is an ant script, is not used to import the project into an IDE like Eclipse or Netbeans. A build script is used to build the project (or produce some desired output) rather than an mechanism for importing the project into an IDE.
As mentioned by #coobird this is an ant build file. Although IDEs such as Eclipse and Netbeans have ant support built-in, it is also possible to run ant from the command-line and this may be the simplest way to get started if the project has been well created.
See http://ant.apache.org/
for docs.
If you want to try this approach, install ant, cd to the directory with build.xml and issue
ant
Eclipse can be told to build using an Ant script, but you can also use Ant itself.
build.xml file is an Ant(Apache) script.
you can find more information on Ant & build.xml here
In java project build.xml file is used write the ant script.
And from that ant script you can generate war file and can deploy on Tomcat server