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Ant is a build system that was developed for the Jakarta Tomcat
project and was used internally at Sun.  It was originally developed
by James Davidson <duncan@eng.sun.com> and has been extended by others
including myself.  When Jakarta was released as Open Source, the
developer community also obtained the source to Ant as well.  This is
a great addition to the community.

You can obtain the Ant source code at <http://jakarta.apache.org/>.
It is currently located in the jakarta-tools CVS repository.

The build-turbine.xml file is the "code" that tells Ant what to do.
The beauty of Ant is that it is entirely XML based, so creating
installation scripts is as easy as creating a XML file.  You should
not need to edit the build-turbine.xml file unless you wish to change
paths of things.

The build-turbine.sh and build-turbine.bat scripts are wrappers that
invoke Ant and pass in some arguments, including the path to the XML
file, for building Turbine.  The .sh script is for Unix systems and
the .bat script is for Win32 systems.  You should edit the appropriate
script for your platform and specify any necessary items to add to
your classpath.  This is well documented in the scripts source.


-Jon Stevens
jons@apache.org
