Progress User Group Ant Demo

About

This project is meant to showcase Apache Ant for OpenEdge Developers. It includes some basic code as well as a basic build.xml file. It accompanies the presentation "Building Your Ant Colony: Designing An Automated Build System with Apache Ant" presented at the PUG Challenge Americas 2017.

Slides for that talk are available here: https://speakerdeck.com/jcleaver/intro-to-ant

Setup

Setting up Ant

Fortunately, Ant is already installed alongside PDSOE. This guide assumes that you already have PDSOE installed. This guide also assumes that you are on a Windows platform. While the gist of it is the same for OS X, the mechanics of setting environment variables is very different.

Throughout, I will use $DLC to refer to the OpenEdge install directory. Whenever you see that, replace it with the path to your OpenEdge install.

Setting Environment Variables

1. To access environment variables, type environment variables in the start menu.
2. Select the option to"Edit the System Envirionment Variables"
3. On the bottom of the "Advanced" tab, click the "Environment Variables" button.
4. If it isn't already, add JAVA_HOME with a value of $DLC\jdk
5. Add a new system variable called ANT_HOME with a value of $DLC\oeide\eclipse\plugins\org.apache.ant_1.8.4.v201303080030.
   • Note that the version number might not be exact. This is the number for 11.6.2. Check the plugins folder to make sure you have the right one.
6. Add the bin directory to your PATH variable.
   • The PATH is a semi-colon delimited list. When you edit it, make sure to put a semi-colon after the last entry if there isn't one and then add $DLC\oeide\eclipse\plugins\org.apache.ant_1.8.4.v201303080030\bin; to the end.
     • As above, make sure to use the correct version number for the Ant folder.

Installing PCT

For in-depth and up-to-date information, please see the PCT Wiki.

1. Download the latest PCT Jar file from the PCT Github Repository.
2. Copy the .jar file to $ANT_HOME\lib.