The document provides instructions and sample build files for creating simple Java projects, web projects, and enterprise application (EAR) projects using Apache Ant. It includes the build file contents needed to compile code, generate JARs, WARs, and EARs, and clean the build directory. Sample directories and file paths are also provided.

1. How to write a simple ANT build files for the Enterprise projects.
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2. ANT Tutorials
 Tutorials How to write a build file for a simple Java project
Create a simple sample project in your eclipse IDE, Below is the screen shot and build script.
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 Build.xml
<project name="TestAnt" basedir="." default="run">
<!-- Clean Target -->
<target name="clean">
<delete dir="build"/>
</target>
<!-- Compile Target -->
<target name="compile">
<mkdir dir="build/classes"/>
<javac srcdir="src" destdir="build/classes"/>
</target>
<!-- Make JAR Target -->
<target name="jar">
<mkdir dir="build/jar"/>
<jar destfile="build/jar/TestAnt.jar" basedir="build/classes">
<manifest>
<attribute name="Main-Class" value="com.test.ant.EmployeeTestClient"/>
</manifest>
</jar>
</target>
<!-- Run JAR to execute the main class. -->
<target name="run">
<java jar="build/jar/TestAnt.jar" fork="true"/>
</target>
</project>
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4. ANT Tutorials
 Tutorials How to write a build file for a simple Java Web project
Create a simple sample web project in your eclipse IDE, Below is the screen shot and
build script.
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 Build.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="AntTestForWebApp" default="buildWar" basedir=".">
<property name="baseDir" value="${basedir}" />
<property name="src" value="${baseDir}/src" />
<property name="webRoot" value="${baseDir}/WebRoot" />
<property name="warDir" value="${baseDir}/build/war" />
<property name="libDir" value="${warDir}/WEB-INF/lib" />
<path id="libClasspath">
<fileset dir="${webRoot}/WEB-INF/lib" includes="**/*.jar" />
</path>
<!-- ========================= **** Clean Target **** =========================-->
<target name="clean">
<delete dir="${baseDir}/build" />
</target>
<!-- ========================= **** Init Target **** =========================-->
<target name="init">
<!-- Create Web-INF,lib, classes, META-INF directories -->
<mkdir dir="${libDir}" />
<mkdir dir="${warDir}/WEB-INF" />
<mkdir dir="${warDir}/WEB-INF/classes" />
<mkdir dir="${warDir}/META-INF" />
</target>
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<!-- =================== **** COMPILE **** =======================================
Compile Java Files and place the following things in
1) *.classes files in WEB-INF/classes
2) *.jar files in WEB-INF/lib
3) web.xml in WEB-INF
4) *.jsp files in parent directory path build/war
================================================================================ -->
<target name="compile" depends="init">
<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${warDir}/WEB-INF/classes" debug="true" includes="**/*.java"
optimize="on">
<classpath refid="libClasspath" />
</javac>
<copy todir="${libDir}">
<fileset dir="${webRoot}/WEB-INF/lib" includes="**/*.jar" />
</copy>
<copy todir="${warDir}/WEB-INF">
<fileset dir="${webRoot}/WEB-INF" includes="web.xml" />
</copy>
<copy todir="${warDir}">
<fileset dir="${webRoot}" includes="*.jsp" />
</copy>
</target>
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<!-- ========================= **** Create the WAR File **** =========================-->
<target name="buildWar">
<!-- Option 1: Using <jar> create war file and place WAR file in BUILD directory -->
<!--
<jar jarfile="${baseDir}/build/AntTestForWebApp.war" basedir="${warDir}" />
-->
<!-- Option 2: Using <war> create war file and place WAR file in BUILD directory -->
<war destfile="${baseDir}/build/AntTestForWebApp.war" webxml="${warDir}/WEB-INF/web.xml">
<zipfileset dir="${warDir}"/>
</war>
</target>
</project>
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8. ANT Tutorials
 Tutorials How to write a build file for a simple Java Web project
Create a simple sample EAR project in your eclipse IDE, Below is the screen
shot and build script.
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<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<!-- ==========================================================================-->
<!-- Trying Build file for EAR Application -->
<!-- build.xml, Friday, August 27, 2010 -->
<!-- Author: Ravinder Nancherla -->
<!-- Email: ravinder.nancherla@gmail.com -->
<!-- Copyright(c) 2010 Ravinder Nancherla (Ravi Reddy)., All Rights Reserved. -->
<!-- ========================================================================= -->
<project name="AntEarWarJar" default="buildEar" basedir=".">
<property name="webModule" value="C:/SravanthiPractice/AntEarWarJarWeb"/>
<property name="ejbModule" value="C:/SravanthiPractice/AntEarWarJarEJB"/>
<property name="baseDir" value="${basedir}"/>
<property name="build" value="${baseDir}/build"/>
<property name="jarDir" value="${baseDir}/build/jar"/>
<property name="warDir" value="${baseDir}/build/war"/>
<property name="earDir" value="${baseDir}/build/ear"/>
<property name="webRootDir" value="${webModule}/WebRoot/WEB-INF"/>
<property name="webDir" value="${warDir}/WEB-INF"/>
<path id="libClasspath">
<fileset dir="${webRootDir}/lib" includes="**/*.jar" />
</path>

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<!-- Cleaning the build directory -->
<target name="clean">
<delete dir="${build}"/>
</target>
<!-- Initializing/Creating the directories -->
<target name="init" depends="clean">
<mkdir dir="${jarDir}/classes"/>
<mkdir dir="${jarDir}/jar"/>
<mkdir dir="${warDir}/META-INF"/>
<mkdir dir="${webDir}/classes"/>
<mkdir dir="${webDir}/lib"/>
<mkdir dir="${earDir}/META-INF"/>
</target>
<!-- Compiling and copying the files from EjbModule and WebModiule -->
<target name="compile" depends="init">
<javac srcdir="${ejbModule}/src" destdir="${jarDir}/classes" includes="**/*.java"/>
<javac srcdir="${webModule}/src" destdir="${webDir}/classes" includes="**/*.java">
<classpath refid="libClasspath"/>
</javac>
<copy todir="${webDir}/lib">
<fileset dir="${webRootDir}/lib" includes="**/*.jar"/>
</copy>
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<copy todir="${webDir}">
<fileset dir="${webRootDir}" includes="web.xml"/>
</copy>
<copy todir="${warDir}">
<fileset dir="${webModule}/WebRoot" includes="**/*.jsp"/>
</copy>
<copy todir="${earDir}/META-INF">
<fileset dir="${baseDir}/META-INF" includes="**/*.*"/>
</copy>
</target>
<!-- Creating Jar File -->
<target name="buildJar" depends="compile">
<jar jarfile="${earDir}/${ant.project.name}.jar" basedir="${jarDir}"/>
<jar jarfile="${jarDir}/jar/${ant.project.name}.jar" basedir="${jarDir}"/>
</target>
<!-- Creating War File -->
<target name="buildWar" depends="compile">
<jar jarfile="${earDir}/${ant.project.name}.war" basedir="${warDir}"/>
</target>
<!-- Creating Ear File -->
<target name="buildEar" depends="buildJar,buildWar">
<jar jarfile="${build}/${ant.project.name}.ear" basedir="${earDir}"/>
</target>
</project>
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