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output=./tmp

appname=webdoclet

# You may change these at will. These get used by the Servlet example.

basic.servlet.bye=dude

basic.servlet.hi=mom

The instructions in the

build.properties

file should be enough for the veteran Ant/J2EE

developer to continue. For those who are Ant neophytes or are otherwise confused,

read the next page carefully.

Details about Configuring build.properites for your

environment

You need to change three setting in the

build.properties

file

(

tutorials\J2EEXdoclet\webdoclet\build.properites

) as follows:

1. Set the location of the XDoclet install.

2. Set the hot deploy directory of your J2EE application server

3. Set the lib directory of your J2EE application server

Set the XDoclet lib

The default setting of

xdocletlib

is

/xdoclet/lib

. If you have installed XDoclet in

another location, please adjust this setting accordingly.

Set the deploy directory

You need to adjust the

webapps

property of the

build.properties

file to match your

J2EE application server s hot deploy directory.

For example on my box:

webapps=/resin/webapps

would deploy to

Resin

while

webapps=/tomcat4/webapps

would deploy to

Tomcat 4

. The Ant build file will copy

a war to whatever location you specify with the

webapps

property when you run the

deploy

target.

Set the J2EE lib directory

The next thing you need to do is specify the lib directory where the Ant build file will find

the J2EE jar files. You can do this by modifying the lib property of the

build.properties

file.

For example on my box:

lib=/resin/lib

would use Resin EE lib directory,

lib=/tomcat4/common/lib

would use the Tomcat lib directory and

lib=/j2sdkee1.3.1/lib

would use Sun s reference implementation directory. The

Ant build file uses this property to set the J2EE library jar files on the classpath for

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