Tool Setup Instructions

Ant Make Utility, Version 1.5.4

If the course you are setting up requires Ant 1.5.4, follow these instructions to set it up on the student and instructor machines. If you have questions, please contact your courseware vendor.

First, note that Ant requires the J2SE. See separate setup instructions for the J2SE SDK, version 1.4.2, here:

http://www.capcourse.com/Tools/J2SE1.4.2.html

The binary download for Ant 1.5.4 is located at:

http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.5.4-bin.zip

After downloading, unpack the entire contents of the archive into a new directory anywhere on the machine; on Windows systems, extracting right to the c:\ root is a common practice, since everything is contained in a root directory apache-ant-1.5.4. We also suggest renaming the top-level directory to something simpler, such as Ant. Wherever you install it, this root directory is the Ant home, and the bin directory under this root must be in the executable path for students when they log on.

To test the installation, open a console and run ant -help. You should see console output explaining basic usage, beginning with "ant [options] [target [target2 [target3] ...]]".