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| <h3>Generating the build.xml file</h3> |
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| <P CLASS="Para">Open one of the navigation views and locate your new plug-in project.</P> |
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| <li>Select the file 'plugin.xml' underneath your new project and right-click |
| <b>PDE Tools > Create Ant Build File</b>.</li> |
| <li>A new file, 'build.xml' will be created underneath your project.</li> |
| <li>Open the Ant editor on the build.xml file by double clicking it in one of |
| the navigation views. Notice that for this file, the Ant editor is the default |
| editor. This is because by default, there is a file association in the general |
| preferences associating files named 'build.xml' with the Ant editor. <br> |
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| <p>The build.xml file is a default Ant buildfile with many targets useful for deploying |
| your plug-in. For example, there are individual targets to build all necessary |
| jars for your plug-in, create a .zip file containing everything in your plug-in, |
| cleanup any .zip files that may have been created and so on. </p> |
| <p>Now that we have the build.xml file, we will use it to build a .jar file for |
| our plug-in.</p> |
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