EditXML: Building the Application

The binary distribution already contains all parts required for the Jakarta Tomcat installation (except for third party products). In this case, this part may be skipped.

The build process of EditXML is based on Ant version 1.3. We assume, that Ant is installed. Two scripts are contained in the distribution for the invocation of Ant: build.bat for Microsoft environments and build.sh for Unix-like operating systems. Their invocation is similar:

build [-D<variable>=<value>]* <target>

target	description
build	Creation of all parts for a servlet API 2.2 installation.
dist	Creation of source and binary distribution. The binary distribution follows the servlet API 2.2.
variable	description
build.dir	Location of the servlet API 2.2 directory structure.
tomcat.home	Installation directory of Jakarta Tomcat. We need servlet.jar for the build process.
xerces.jar	Location of the XML parser (we need version 1.3.1 of Xerces).