Using ant

The ant utility is a new and better alternative to using make. Ant ist specifically designed to work with Java, and it also offers some predefined tasks like

and many more.

This is a part of a build.xml file for ant. 

<project name="Sample agents" default="agents">  
  <property name="src" value="${basedir}/src" />
  <property name="build" value="${basedir}/build" />
  <property name="spu"  value="${basedir}/spu" />

  ...
  <target name="agents" depends="init,misc,base" description="Build sample agents">
    <javac deprecation="${deprecation}" 
       srcdir="${src}" 
       destdir="${build}"
       debug="on" 
       includes="samples/agents/*.java samples/utils/*.java">
      <classpath path="${ametascp}:${log4jcp}:${jdom}" />
    </javac>
  </target>
  
  <target name="clean">
     <delete dir="${build}" />
     <delete dir="${spu}" />
  </target>
      
</project>

But ant is also capable of running other processes, especially launching Java applications. This means that we can also use ant and its build.xml file to create the SPUs: 

<property name="ContBuild" value="AMETAS.sdk.ContainerBuilder" />
<property name="Agent" value="samples.agents.SampleAgent" />

<target name="samplespu" description="Building Sample agent SPU"
    depends="agents">
  <java classname="${ContBuild}" fork="true" classpath="${spucp}">
     <arg line="crspu ${Agent} -src ${build} -dst ${spu} -force"/>
  </java>
  <java classname="${ContBuild}" fork="true" classpath="${spucp}">
    <arg line="addtype ${spu}/${Agent} -str SampleAgent"/>
  </java>
  <java classname="${ContBuild}" fork="true" classpath="${spucp}">
    <arg line="addsig ${spu}/${Agent} -privk ${basedir}/admin.idy"/>
  </java>
</target>

Finally, you can also create your Javadoc documentation: 

<target name="alldoc" depends="init" description="Build documentation">
   <javadoc sourcepath="${src}" destdir="${docs}" 
       packagenames="Samples.agents.*" 
       version="true" use="true" author="true" access="package"
       windowtitle="Sample Agents documentation"
       Doctitle="Sample Agents documentation"
       Overview="${src}/overview.html">
    <classpath path="${ametascp}"/>
    <link href="http://www.accsis.com/ametas/docs/apipub/" />
    <link href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/" />
   </javadoc>
</target>

We cannot provide a comprehensive introduction to ant at this point. But you can and should consult the online documentation at the Ant documentation on the Jakarta webpages.