Ant is a build system that was developed for the Jakarta Tomcat project and

was used internally at Sun. It was originally developed by James Davidson

<duncan@eng.sun.com> and has been extended by others including myself. When

Jakarta was released as Open Source, the developer community also obtained

the source to Ant as well. This is a great addition to the community.



You can obtain the Ant source code from <http://jakarta.apache.org/>. It is

currently located in the jakarta-tools CVS repository.



The build.xml file is the "code" that tells Ant what to do. The

beauty of Ant is that it is entirely XML based so creating installation

scr ipts is as easy as creating a XML file. You should not need to edit the

build.xml file unless you wish to change paths of things.



To build regexp, download and install Ant and invoke ant scr ipt from this

directory.





-jon stevens

jons@apache.org

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Ant is a build system that was developed for the Jakarta Tomcat project and

was used internally at Sun. It was originally developed by James Davidson

<duncan@eng.sun.com> and has been extended by others including myself. When

Jakarta was released as Open Source, the developer community also obtained

the source to Ant as well. This is a great addition to the community.



You can obtain the Ant source code from <http://jakarta.apache.org/>. It is

currently located in the jakarta-tools CVS repository.



The build.xml file is the "code" that tells Ant what to do. The

beauty of Ant is that it is entirely XML based so creating installation

scr ipts is as easy as creating a XML file. You should not need to edit the

build.xml file unless you wish to change paths of things.



To build regexp, download and install Ant and invoke　ant　scr ipt from this

directory.





-jon stevens

jons@apache.org