Alternative Ant Build Script for Fully Embedded and Split Install Bundles

Introduction

The previous articles provide details of customization of the default ant build script that is present in your WebObjects projects. This article provides a fully custom build script that you can just drop into your project and use it as an alternative to the default build.xml. This script is called the "splitembeddedbuild" script. Along with providing the script, this article explains in detail what deployment artifacts are produced by the build. Hopefully the functionality in this script will make their way into the standard script someday with configuration parameters settable in a simple way in the build.properties file.

Pre-requisites

This script only works with the modern WOLips project format and the WOnderApplication project template format (since the layout of regular. However the script is easily changed to accommodate the "old" standard format by changing the dir names in the script (for example "Sources" in the new project layout was "src" in the old layout)