Chapter 1. Building EasyBeans From Source.

Table of Contents

1.1. Requirements
1.1.1. JDK
1.1.2. ANT
1.1.3. TestNG
1.1.4. Clover
1.2. Optional Requirements
1.2.1. Eclipse
1.2.2. Eclipse Plugins
1.2.2.1. Checkstyle Plugin
1.2.2.2. AnyEdit Plugin
1.2.2.3. Asm Plugin
1.2.2.4. TestNG Plugin
1.3. Compiling EasyBeans
1.4. EasyBeans ant Targets
1.4.1. JavaDoc
1.4.2. Binary (.jar) Output
1.4.3. Binary (.rar) Output
1.4.4. Binary Distribution (default target)

1.1. Requirements

1.1.1. JDK

A JDK 5.0 is required to build EasyBeans. Make sure that the JDK used to build EasyBeans is compliant with the new 5.0 features.

1.1.2. ANT

The ant tool is used with build.xml files to build EasyBeans. This tool is available at http://ant.apache.org.

1.1.3. TestNG

The test suite of EasyBeans uses the TestNG tool. This tool is available at http://www.testng.org.

1.1.4. Clover

The test suite of EasyBeans uses Clover, which is a code-coverage, analysis tool. Cenqua has granted licenses to open source projects. Refer to http://www.cenqua.com/ for more about Clover.