Java::Build - a family of modules which you can use instead of Ant
use Java::Build::JVM; # access to the javac compiler in one jvm use Java::Build::Tasks; # some helpful methods similar to Ant tasks my $source_files = build_file_list( BASE_DIR => $some_path, INCLUDE_PATTERNS => [ qr/\.java$/ ], ); my $dirty_sources = what_needs_compiling( SOURCE_FILE_LIST => $source_files, ); if (@$dirty_sources) { my $compiler = Java::Ant::JVM->getCompiler(); $compiler->destination($base_dir); $compiler->classpath($base_dir); $compiler->compile($dirty_sources); my $class_files = build_file_list( BASE_DIR => $some_path, INCLUDE_PATTERNS => [ qr/\.class$/ ], EXCLUDE_PATTERNS => [ qr/Test/ ], EXCLUDE_DEFAULTS => 1, STRIP_BASE_DIR => 1, ); jar( JAR_FILE => $jar_file_name, FILE_LIST => $class_files, BASE_DIR => $some_path, ); }
This family of modules helped me move away from Ant to a proper scripting language, namely Perl. With it you can use a single JVM for compiling your java programs. It provides many useful methods to help you build lists of files, package them with jar, etc. Currently the modules are unix centric. If you make them work elsewhere, please send in patches.
With the modules in this distribution, you can aviod Ant. This gives you the following benefits:
Variables instead of properties.
Flow of control structures.
The ability to write functions.
Cleaner build files (you don't have to code in XML)
All the other benefits of Perl (CPAN, regexes, etc.)
You will need to install recent versions of Inline and Inline::Java.
See Java::Build::JVM and Java::Build::Tasks for more details about their methods.
Inline Inline::Java Carp; File::Find; Cwd; File::Temp; Exporter;
Phil Crow, <philcrow2000@yahoo.com<gt>
Copyright 2003 by Phil Crow
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.8.0 itself.
To install Java::Build, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Java::Build
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Java::Build
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.