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| <h3>Building a .jar file for the plug-in</h3> |
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| <P CLASS="Para">Now we are ready to use the build.xml Ant buildfile that was created |
| in the last section:</P> |
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| <li>Select the build.xml file in one of the navigation views and choose <b>Run |
| > External Tools </b> from the context menu.</li> |
| <li>In the dialog, the Targets tab should be visible. Make sure that 'build.jars' |
| is the only item in the list selected.</li> |
| <li>Switch to the <b>Refresh</b> tab. The options on this tab control if and |
| how the workspace looks for new, changed and deleted resources after the buildfile |
| finishes execution. Because refreshing can be an expensive operation, you |
| should refresh the smallest subset of the workspace necessary for your buildfile.</li> |
| <li>Check <b>Refresh resources upon completion</b>, then select <b>The project |
| containing the selected resource</b>.<br> |
| <img src="../images/Image606_refresh_tab.png" alt="Refresh tab in Run Ant dialog" border="0" > |
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| <li>Click <b>Run</b>.</li> |
| <li>The Ant buildfile runs, executing the build.jars target. Output from the |
| buildfile is visible in the Console view.</li> |
| <li>When the buildfile finishes, notice that there is a new .jar file under |
| your project containing the two class files that comprise your plug-in. If |
| we had chosen not to refresh the project, the .jar file would still have been |
| created, but we would not see it in one of the navigation views.</li> |
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| <p>We've run the default target for the build.xml Ant buildfile, but there are many |
| other targets and options to be explored.</p> |
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