View source for Building I-Card Manager Application

==='''Asant and Ant'''===
We use script ''asant'', which is located in the J2EE 1.4 SDK bin directory, to build the source code of this application. ''asant'' is a wrapper around [http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html Ant] which is a Java-based build tool like make, which has been developed under the auspices of the [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Software Foundation]. Ant version 1.5.3 and 1.6 beta 1 may also be used to build and deploy the applications.
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'''Note:''' The I-Card Manager application bundle comes with pre-built binaries. To deploy these binaries and avoid building the application, consult the [[I-Card Manager installation instructions]].
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==='''Build I-Card Manager application'''===
This section explains how to build the application binaries for the I-Card Manager application. Building all the application binaries and performing other tasks with Ant involves invoking asant from <tt><higgins_broker.home>/apps/icard</tt> directory of the Higgins Broker installation.

Before building the application, you need to configure the <tt><higgins_broker.home>/build.properties</tt> file to match your enviroment. You need to set the following properties:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"   
|-style="background:#d6dee9; color:black"   
! width="10%" border="1" align="left" valign="top" | Property Name   
! width="45%" border="1" align="left" valign="top" | Description   
! width="45%" border="1" align="left" valign="top" | Examples
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|j2ee.home
|The absolute path to the directory where J2EE SDK is installed.
|c:\j2sdkee1.4 (on Windows) or /home/mydir/j2sdkee1.4 (on Unix)
|}
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'''Note:''' On Windows, while writing the paths in the build.properties files, you need to escape the "\" properly by using "\\" instead. For example, to set j2ee.home to c:\j2sdkee1.4, the entry in the properties file is j2ee.home=c:\\j2sdkee1.4.
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To build the application binaries on Unix, open a shell prompt and enter these commands: 

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;
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|<tt>cd <higgins_broker.home>/apps/icard</tt>
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|<tt>asant [argument]</tt>
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To build the application binaries on Windows, open a shell prompt and enter these commands: 
cd <adventure.home>\projectasant [argument]