Before You Build

When building a Framework project, Ant needs to be able to find WebObjects. WebObjects itself is a set of Frameworks just like the one you are building. They can be installed anywhere using these instructions.

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[wocompile] /MyProjects/MyFramework/Sources/com/mycompany/myapp/myclass:10:
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[wocompile] import com.webobjects.appserver.WOContext;

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• Standard WebObjects Framework

  Right-Click on your project in Eclipse and select WOLips Ant Tools > Install
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  This will build and install the framework in the location defined in the WOLips preferences, overwriting any previously installed version of the framework.

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  If Ant can't write to the WebObjects frameworks directory, you will get an error like this: No Format Directory /Library/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects543/Library/Frameworks/YourFramework.framework creation was not successful for an unknown reason. Give write access to the directory with these commands in Terminal: sudo chmod 757 /Library/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects543/Library/Frameworks/ sudo chmod 757 /Library/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects543/Library/WebObjects/Applications

• Project Wonder Frameworks

  You can not build projects from Wonder this way. You must either use the command line or Hudson/Jenkins methods

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You have to install woproject.jar first and make it available for ant before the following instructions will work. (see Building a WebObjects Project#OverviewProject first)

• Standard WebObjects Framework

  You can build a standard WebObjects Framework project by calling Ant and passing it the Project directory, and the name of the build target contained in the build.xml file at your project's root.

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  cd /my/project/ ant build

  By default, the built framework will be put in a dist directory in your project's root.

• Project Wonder Frameworks

  This assumes that you have already downloaded

  First download the Wonder source code (see Getting the Wonder Source Code). Make a note of the location of the Wonder directory.

  The Wonder build script will use properties defined in ~/Library/Application Support/WOLips/wolips.

  
  If you are building

  properties. This is a good place to set wo.system.frameworks property.

  To build Project Wonder's frameworks

  you will

  use these commands

  instead:

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  cd /path/to/Wonder ant frameworks

  By default, all the Wonder frameworks will be built to (~/Roots) (in your home directory). To build elsewhere, set the wo.external.root property.

Customizing the Build

By modifying the values in the build.properties and wolips.properties files or by passing in arguments to the Ant command, you can change where Ant will look for dependencies (binary frameworks, libraries, etc.) and where it will install the build products.

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sudo ant -Duser.home=$HOME frameworks.install

This copies the built frameworks from ~/Roots to the runtime Frameworks directory:

• Mac OS X: /Library/Frameworks/ or /Library/FramworksWebObjects/Versions/WebObjects543/Library/Frameworks/
• Linux: /Local/Library/Frameworks

Setting the user.home property is necessary. Otherwise ant will think user.home is /var/root and frameworks.install would look for built frameworks in /var/root/Roots and would miss any custom locations set for wo.local.frameworks that are set in your wolips.properties file.

You can combine the build and install steps by simply executing this Ant command:

sudo ant -Duser.home=$HOME frameworks frameworks.install

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