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5. Configure the example to find your application server s lib directory

Installing XDoclet

Download XDoclet 1.2 or higher.

Go to the files section of the XDoclet project on

sourceforge.

Look for the file that looks like

xdoclet bin 1.2xxx.zip

. Click on it.

Unzip the zip file in to a subdirectory called

xdoclet

off of your root directory. You can

unzip in another place if you like.

I ve included an example

build.xml

file that imports a properties file. The properties file

sets all of the properties for you with few external references. If you did not install

XDoclet in the root, which is very likely if you are using Unix, you will need to set the

xdocletlib

property in the

build.properties

file (More on this in the next slide).

Install and configure the example

You can download the

example as a zip file

. Unzip this file in your root directory. It will

create a folder called

tutorials

.

If you are using the example, and you installed XDoclet in another location then all you

have to do is modify the

xdocletlib

variable in the

build.properties

file

(

tutorials\J2EEXdoclet\webdoclet\build.properites

).

Here is the listing of the

build.properties

file:

################ Change These for your environment ###################

# This is where you installed xdoclet

xdocletlib=/xdoclet/lib

# Change these for your app servers.

# This is the deployment directory.

webapps=/tomcat4/webapps

# This lib is where the ant script expects to find the j2ee jar files.

lib=/tomcat4/common/lib

# You should not have to change these

src=./src

WEBINF=./web/WEB INF

dest=${WEBINF}/classes

docroot=./web

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