Appendix A. Apache Ant

Procedure A.1. Installing Apache Ant on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• Download and install Apache Ant and the Trax plugin on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Repository by issuing this command:

  [localhost]$ sudo yum install ant-trax

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Procedure A.2. Installing Apache Ant on Other Operating Systems

1. Download and Extract

   Download the Apache Ant binary release from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi.
   Once it is downloaded, extract it in a preferred installation location, such as c:\Program Files\Apache\Ant\ or /opt/apache-ant-1.8/.

2. Add the ANT_HOME Environment Variable

   Create an environment variable called ANT_HOME. This variable has to contain the path created in the previous step.
   • Do this on Red Hat Enterprise Linux by adding the following line to the ~/.bash_profile file, substituting the path with that created in the previous step.

     export ANT_HOME=/opt/apache-ant-1.8.1

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   • On Microsoft Windows, do this by clicking on the Start Menu, opening the Control Panel and then selecting System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables.
     Create a new variable, calling it ANT_HOME, and configure it to point to the directory created in the previous step.

3. Include bin in the PATH

   Append the bin directory of the Ant installation to the PATH environmental variable.
   • On Unix/Linux systems, one does this simply by adding the following line to the ~/.bash_profile file after the one which sets the ANT_HOME variable:

     export PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin

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   • On Microsoft Windows, do this task by opening the Control Panel and selecting System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> System Variables. Edit the PATH variable and append the text ;%ANT_HOME%\bin.