Bug Base: Building the Application

The binary distribution already contains all parts required for the Jakarta Tomcat installation (except for third party products). In this case, this part may be skipped.

The build process of Bug Base is based on Ant version 1.5.1. We assume, that Ant is installed. Two scripts are contained in the distribution for the invocation of Ant: build.bat for Microsoft environments and build.sh for Unix-like operating systems. Their invocation is similar:

build [-D<variable>=<value>]* <target>

target	description
build	Creation of all parts of the installation.
dist	Creation of source and binary distribution. The binary distribution follows the servlet API 2.2.
admin.jar	Creation of bugbase-adminapplet-<version>.jar.
applet.jar	Creation of bugbase-applet-<version>.jar.

The build process is controlled by the following files:

• build.xml: The central Ant configuration file
• build.properties: This file defines all default values of the build variables used in the build.xml file.
• profile/deployment-default.properties: This file defines all variables, that are deployment specific.
• project.properties: This file is read initially and may override all Ant variables.

In order to override deployment specific variables, write your own deployment-....properties and define the variable deployment.settings in your project.properties.