https://github.com/perdian/ant-webstart

Ant JNLP creation task
https://github.com/perdian/ant-webstart

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Ant JNLP creation task

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/perdian/ant-webstart
• Owner: perdian
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2013-01-25T12:46:59.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-10-09T07:19:12.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-07T15:35:38.725Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Java
• Size: 75.2 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# Ant Webstart task

Ant task to generate a deployment structure for a webstart enabled application.

An example:

    

      ...

      

        

        

          

            aTitle

            aVendor

            

            Short Description

          

          

            

              

              

            

          

          

            

          

          

        

      

      ...

    

All in all, the declaration of the target JNLP file in the Ant task ist almost

identical to the actual JNLP file, as it is defined in the specification

(http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/javaws/developersguide/syntax.html).

The main exception being, that wherever slashes in the specification are

allowed, (for example within the offline-allowed element, there are

no slashed allowed for the ant task (which means the tag is to be added as

offlineallowed).

Additionally, to all the standard JNLP elements, the resources

elements supports adding a path child, as described in the

example above. The existence of such a child means, that the task will analyze

the contents of the path and will add a jar child element to the

resources parent element for each of the entries found in the path. This

allows for a dynamic way to add required resources, without actually having to

declare them over and over again. The path's to the resource files (usually

JARs) will be relative to the location of the JNLP file itself (as defined in

the destfile attribute of the main task element).

## Requirements

The ant-webstart tasks requires Java SE 6 or higher.

## Build

If you want to build the application yourself, all you have to do once you've

cloned the Git repository is to call the Ant buildscript:

    cd /whereever/your/project/is

    ant distribute-lib

Please note, that since the project uses Apache Ivy as dependency management

system, your Ant installation must also have the Apache Ivy JAR-File in it's

classpath. For further information about Apache Ivy see: https://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/install.html

Once the build is completed, the JAR file containing the tasks can be found in

the distribution/lib subdirectory.