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compilation.

If all of this talk about Ant is just not making sense, that is, you are an Ant neophyte,

then I have the perfect thing for you. Please read this sample chapter from

Mastering

Tomcat on Developing Web Components with Ant

(by yours truly) at the following link:

"http://www.rickhightower.com/AntPrimer.pdf"

. It is an excellent primer on using Ant.

Defining the webdoclet task

In order to run the

webdoclet

task, you must define the XDoclet

webdoclet

task with

as taskdef in your ant build file as follows:

classname="xdoclet.modules.web.WebDocletTask"

classpathref="xdocpath"

/>

You have to do this because XDoclet is not a built in Ant task. Notice the class name of

the Ant task handler is

xdoclet.modules.web.WebDocletTask

. Also notice that

you reference a predefined classpath called

xdocpath

. The

xdocpath

was defined

earlier and it uses the

xdocletlib

property that was setup earlier as follows:

The taskdef must have the XDoclet jar files in its classpath as well as the J2EE lib

directories. Once you have defined the

webdoclet

taskdef, you can use the

webdoclet

task.

You can find these tasks and tags in the ant build file called build.xml.

Using the webdoclet task

Enhance J2EE component reuse with XDoclets

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