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1 -== WOProject ==
1 +WOProject is a suite of extensions for ant to build WOApplications and WOFrameworks
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3 -A suite of extensions for ant to build WOApplications and WOFrameworks
3 +== Introduction ==
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5 -* [[WOProject Ant Tasks (old site)>>http://objectstyle.org/woproject-old/ant/]]
5 +Ant build files are broken into what are called '[[targets>>http://ant.apache.org/manual/using.html#targets]]', similar to a [[Makefile>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makefile]]. These targets are a group of, what are called, '[[tasks>>http://ant.apache.org/manual/tasksoverview.html]]'. Tasks are used for getting work done; they make something happend directly, e.g. [[move files>>http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/move.html]] on the filesystem, [[compile java>>http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/javac.html]] source files into classes, [[transfer files>>http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/scp.html]] from one server to another over ssh, etc.
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7 +While Ant is distributed with around fifty built-in tasks, any number of customized tasks can easily be added by developers outside of the core Ant team.
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9 +WOProject is such a project. WOProject adds a half dozen tasks to Ant. These tasks allow WebObject developers the freedom to use Ant in their build process, instead of the using Apple's XCode suite. A few of these tasks are: [[WOCompile>>http://objectstyle.org/woproject-old/ant/wocompile.html]], [[WOApplication>>http://objectstyle.org/woproject-old/ant/woapplication.html]], [[WOFramework>>http://objectstyle.org/woproject-old/ant/woframework.html]]. After dropping the WOProject core jars into Ant's lib directory, these tasks can be used directly in the typical Ant build.xml file in building your WebObjects projects.
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11 +See the link above to the old site for in-depth documentation on each of these new tasks, as well as their [[APIs>>http://objectstyle.org/woproject-old/api/index.html]].
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13 +Reasons for using Ant to build WebObjects frameworks and applications:
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15 +* Ant is highly configurable and flexible, with constant additions from the open source community, and is considered a defacto standard by the Java community
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17 +* Builds of projects with a very large number of files without dependency failures
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19 +* Allows easy automation of daily builds for teams of developers, i.e. nightly builds for smoke testing, etc.
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21 +== Ant Tasks ==
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23 +//(for tasks not documented here see [[the old site>>http://objectstyle.org/woproject-old/ant/]]).//
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25 +* Core Tasks
26 +** [[WOCompile]]: A Javac task extension that allows including WOFrameworks in CLASSPATH.
27 +** [[WOApplication]]: A task for assembling WebObjects applications.
28 +** [[WOFramework]]: A task for assembling WebObjects frameworks.
29 +** [[WOGen]]: A task for generating custom Java EO classes from EOModel.
30 +** [[EOModel]]: A task for configuring custom connection dictionary for EOModels.
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32 +* WO Tools Integration Tasks:
33 +** [[PBIndex]]: Maintains PB.project file for integration with WOBuilder on Windows.
34 +** [[PBXIndex]]: Maintains PBX.pbproj file for integration with WOBuilder and EOModeler on older Mac OS X.
35 +** [[XcodeIndex]]: Maintains XCode project files for integration with WOBuilder on the latest Mac OS X.
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37 +* Generic Java Tasks
38 +** [[JApplication]]: A task for assembling native launchers of Java applications for a number of target platforms.
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40 +* [[Embedding WOFrameworks]]