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This wiki discusses the steps to add a new version of Apache Ant to the Eclipse platform. The intended audience is committers, but everyone is free to contribute versions.
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How it works
Eclipse consumes Apache Ant from Orbit as a 'normal' Eclipse bundle rather than try to integrate Apache Ant as-is. Below is a quick overview of the process, with the following sections providing more details.
A quick overview of the process:
- Ant is taken from Apache site and converted to the Orbit bundle format.
- A CQ is opened to get legal approval to use the new version
- Once approved, the new version is added to Orbit
- Smokes testing and test builds are done
- Assuming no problems - the platform is updated
Creating the Orbit bundle
The first step is to create the new Orbit bundle that can be used in your workspace (or installed in your host) to test with. This section assumes you are familiar with the terminology of Eclipse bundles, using the PDE tools, testing / running JUnit tests and have read the relevant how-tos from the Orbit wiki about adding / configuring bundles.
The bundle
The best way to see the expected shape of the Ant bundle is simply to look at an older (or current) version used by Eclipse. You can grab an older version from the CVS repository, but you will have to rename it in your workspace (or its name will collide with the new version you are trying to create). At the time of this writing the version used in Eclipse is 1.9.2, so you will want to check out the 1_9_2 branch of Ant from orbit.
Once in your workspace, the bundle will look like the following:
