Ant Developer’s Handbook

Building the Chat Server

ChatServer is the first executable to be delivered. The relevant portion of its build script is illustrated in Listing 9.6.

Listing 9.6. The build.xml Script for the Common Layer

<available file="${chatserver.lib}/${chatcommon.jar}" property="chatcommon.classpath" value="${chatserver.lib}/${chatcommon.jar}"/> <available classname="${chatserver.classes}/${chatcommon.class}" property="chatcommon.classpath" value="${chatserver.classes}"/> <classpath path="${chatserver.classes}" /> <available file="${chatserver.lib}/${channel.jar}" property="channel.classpath" value="${chatserver.lib}/${channel.jar}"/> <available classname="${channel.class}" property="channel.classpath" value="${chatserver.classes}}"> <classpath path="${chatserver.classes}" ...