Introduction to Apache Ant The Apache Ant package is a Java-based build tool.In theory, it is kind of like make, but without make 's wrinkles. Ant is different. Instead of a model that is extended with shell-based commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands, the configuration files are XML-based, calling out a target tree that executes various tasks. Then to build Apache EasyAnt from source, assuming you have Apache Ant™ 1.8.0+ and a jdk 1.5+ installed, then you only need to run the following command: ant clean run -Dtarget=dist Then you will find easyant-core.jar in target/artifacts.

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Building Tomcat

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Introduction

Building Apache Tomcat from source is very easy, and is the first step tocontributing to Tomcat. The complete and comprehensive instructions areprovided in the file BUILDING.txt.The following is a quick step by step guide.

Download a Java Development Kit (JDK) version 7

Building Apache Tomcat requires a JDK (version 7) to be installed. You can download one from
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
http://openjdk.java.net/install/index.html
or another JDK vendor.

IMPORTANT: Set an environment variable JAVA_HOME to the pathname of thedirectory into which you installed the JDK release.

Install Apache Ant 1.9.8 or later

Download a binary distribution of Ant 1.9.8 or later fromhere.

Unpack the binary distribution into a convenient location so that theAnt release resides in its own directory (conventionally namedapache-ant-1.9.x). For the remainder of this guide,the symbolic name ${ant.home} is used to refer to the full pathname of the Ant installation directory.

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IMPORTANT: Create an ANT_HOME environment variable to point the directory ${ant.home},and modify the PATH environment variable to include directory${ant.home}/bin in its list. This makes the ant command line scriptavailable, which will be used to actually perform the build.

Checkout or obtain the Tomcat source code

Tomcat SVN repository URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc8.5.x/trunk/

Tomcat source packages: https://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi.

Checkout the source using SVN, selecting a tag for released version or trunk for the current development code, or download and unpack a source package. For the remainder of this guide, the symbolic name ${tomcat.source} is used to refer to the location where the source has been placed.

Configure download area

Building Tomcat involves downloading a number of libraries that it depends on. It is strongly recommended to configure download area for those libraries.

By default the build is configured to download the dependencies into the ${user.home}/tomcat-build-libs directory. You can change this (see below) but it must be an absolute path.

The build is controlled by creating a ${tomcat.source}/build.properties file. It can be used to redefine any property that is present in build.properties.default and build.xml files. The build.properties file does not exist by default. You have to create it.

The download area is defined by property base.path. For example:

Different versions of Tomcat are allowed to share the same download area.

Another example:

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Users who access the Internet through a proxy must use the properties file to indicate to Ant the proxy configuration:

Building Tomcat

Use the following commands to build Tomcat:

cd ${tomcat.source}
ant

Once the build has completed successfully, a usable Tomcat installation will have beenproduced in the ${tomcat.source}/output/build directory, and can be startedand stopped with the usual scripts.

Building with Eclipse

IMPORTANT: This is not a supported means of building Tomcat; this information isprovided without warranty :-).The only supported means of building Tomcat is with the Ant build described above.However, some developers like to work on Java code with a Java IDE,and the following steps have been used by some developers.

NOTE: This will not let you build everything under Eclipse;the build process requires use of Ant for the many stages that aren'tsimple Java compilations.However, it will allow you to view and edit the Java code,get warnings, reformat code, perform refactorings, run Tomcatunder the IDE, and so on.

WARNING: Do not forget to create and configure ${tomcat.source}/build.properties file as described above before running any Ant targets.

Sample Eclipse project files and launch targets are provided in theres/ide-support/eclipse directory of the source tree.The instructions below will automatically copy these into the required locations.

An Ant target is provided as a convenience to download all binary dependencies, and to createthe Eclipse project and classpath files in the root of the source tree.

cd ${tomcat.source}
ant ide-eclipse

Start Eclipse and create a new Workspace.

Open the Preferences dialog and then select Java->Build Path->ClasspathVariables to add two new Classpath Variables:

Use File->Import and choose Existing Projects into Workspace.From there choose the root directory of the Tomcat source tree (${tomcat.source})and import the Tomcat project located there.

start-tomcat and stop-tomcat launch configurations are provided inres/ide-support/eclipse and will be available in the Run->Run Configurationsdialog. Use these to start and stop Tomcat from Eclipse.If you want to configure these yourself (or are using a different IDE)then use org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap as the main class,start/stop etc. as program arguments, and specify -Dcatalina.home=...(with the name of your build directory) as VM arguments.

Tweaking a few formatting preferences will make it much easier to keep consistent with Tomcatcoding conventions (and have your contributions accepted):

The recommended configuration of Compiler Warnings is documented inres/ide-support/eclipse/java-compiler-errors-warnings.txt file.

Building with other IDEs

The same general approach should work for most IDEs; it has been reportedto work in IntelliJ IDEA, for example.