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| <h3>Ant buildfiles as project builders</h3> |
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| <P CLASS="Para">Our second practical example of using Ant buildfiles in Eclipse |
| is a 'project builder'. This is an Ant buildfile that has been designated to |
| run whenever a project is built. The uses for such a buildfile are many:</P> |
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| <li>Generate a .jar file containing class files from your project</li> |
| <li>Perform some type of pre or post build processing on source or binary files |
| in your project. For example: |
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| <li>Pre-processing source files to instrument them for performance analysis</li> |
| <li>Obfuscating binary files to prevent reverse engineering</li> |
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| <li>Copy class files to some location (for instance, on a network)</li> |
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| <p>For this example, we will create an Ant buildfile that creates a .jar archive |
| of the class files in a project. Note that this is similar to the example in |
| the last chapter, in which we used an Ant buildfile to generate .jar files for |
| an Eclipse plug-in. This example differs in that it works for any Eclipse project, |
| whether or not it is also an Eclipse plug-in. </p> |
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