Heart of Gold - Ant Documentation
This page contains information on the ant build file for the Heart of Gold. Ant is a build tool similar to Unix make, but implemented in Java (hence platform-independent) and mainly designed for building Java-based systems.
Ant is used in Heart of Gold for compilation and start of the Middleware server, to generate RMRS transformation stylesheets etc.
Ant - Quick start
After you have checked out the Heart of Gold sources, type
cd hogthen edit the script file
./ant
You may wish to adjust the JAVA_HOME and ANT_HOME paths in the script.
To start ant with a specific target, run
./ant <target(s)>
The following command lists available Heart of Gold targets defined in hog/build.xml
./ant -projecthelp
Buildfile: build.xml Main targets: aa shortcut to analyzeAll all compile, make jar and javadoc analyzeAll analyze all sentences in a given file chainsaw run chainsaw log viewer chunkiermrs compile chunkie rmrs sdl cascade -Dlang=XX [-Dsdl.file=Y] clean delete files generated by this script compile compile main project generate_xsl generate XSL stylesheet for SProUT2RMRS/PiXml translation init misc setup etc. jar generate project jar file javadoc generate javadoc mocomanserver run mocoman as an XML-RPC server ms shortcut to mocomanserver rmrsmerge compile rmrsmerge sdl cascade [-Dsdl.file=Y] shutdown shutdown mocoman XML-RPC server testhogclient run a test application built on HogXmlRpcClient
To start the Heart of Gold XML-RPC server, run
./ant ms &
Some targets require parameters, they are passed using -D<param>=<value>, e.g.
./ant -Dlang=de -Dtestfile=bla.txt testapp
There is also a generated antdoc documentation for
build.xml (generated with antdoc).
The official Apache ant manual is here.