Database Reference
In-Depth Information
1. Make sure you have Ant installed and that the
ant
command is in your
path
(type
ant -version
to check).
2. Open the
build.xml
file and check if the properties listed under the heading
BASE
INFORMATION
apply to your situation. You will have to change at least the
admin
password property for the examples to work.
3. Open a command window and navigate to the directory where you stored the
build.xml
file.
4. The command
ant -p
will give you an overview of the targets defined.
5.
ant
targetname
will execute a target (e.g.,
ant ListMainCollections
).
Preparing an eXist Ant Build Script
If you would like to use the eXist Ant extensions inside your Ant build script, follow
these steps:
1. Define the
http://exist-db.org/ant
namespace. The recommended name‐
space prefix is
xdb
. The easiest way to do this is to add the namespace definition
to the root
project
element of your Ant build file (usually called
build.xml
):
<project
xmlns:xdb=
"http://exist-db.org/ant"
>
2. Before you use the extension in your build script, you must tell Ant where it can
find the eXist extension libraries. The following code example assumes that on
the operating system level the
EXIST_HOME
environment variable is set and points
to the directory where you have installed eXist:
<property
environment=
"Env"
/>
<fail
unless=
"Env.EXIST_HOME"
>
Environment variable EXIST_HOME not set
</fail>
<path
id=
"classpath.core"
>
<fileset
dir=
"${Env.EXIST_HOME}/lib/core"
>
<include
name=
"*.jar"
/>
</fileset>
<pathelement
path=
"${Env.EXIST_HOME}/exist.jar"
/>
<pathelement
path=
"${Env.EXIST_HOME}/exist-optional.jar"
/>
<pathelement
path=
"${Env.EXIST_HOME}"
/>
</path>
3. If you want to use Ant-Contrib as well, add the following code:
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml">
<classpath>
<pathelement
location="
$EXIST_HOME
/tools/ant/lib/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar"/>
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