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. Binaries (.jar) output
1.4.3. Binaries (.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. So check that the JDK used to build EasyBeans is compliant with new 5.0 features

1.1.2. ANT

To build EasyBeans, the ant tool is used with build.xml files. This tool is available at http://ant.apache.org

1.1.3. TestNG

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

1.1.4. Clover

The test suite of EasyBeans uses Clover that is a code coverage analysis tool. Cenqua has granted licenses to open source projects. More about Clover at http://www.cenqua.com/