Building Release 1.0-34

What is the best way to build a distribution for a Java project? Is it possible to provide a build system for Java projects?

See also

• Release Frame

Goal

Support multiple platforms.

• Install from binary edition on
  • Linux and
  • Microsoft Windows.

• Build binary edition from source code on
  • Linux and
  • Microsoft Windows.

Goal

Compatible with recommendations documented in Producing Open Source Software by Kurt Fogel, O'Reilly. See also Producing Open Source Software.

Binary Edition - Linux

• Download binary RPM.

Source Edition - Linux

• Download no-source RPM.
• Download corresponding source ZIP archive.

Binary Edition - Microsoft Windows

• Download binary ZIP archive.

Source Edition - Microsoft Windows

• Download source ZIP archive.

Distribution Generator for 1.0-34

1. eclipse/release-1.0-34/build.xml
2. eclipse/release-1.0-34/distribution.xml
3. eclipse/release-1.0-34/spc.xvcl
4. eclipse/release-1.0-34/xvcl/rpm-projectspec.xvcl
5. eclipse/release-1.0-34/xvcl/rpm-buildxml.xvcl
6. rpmbuild/.rpmmacros (sb. eclipse/release-1.0-34/.rpmmacros)
7. rpmbuild/rpmmacros.txt (sb. eclipse/release-1.0-34/rpmmacros.txt)
8. rpmbuild/SOURCE (sb. eclipse/release-1.0-34/SOURCE)
9. rpmbuild/RPMS (sb. eclipse/release-1.0-34/RPMS)
10. rpmbuild/tmp (sb. eclipse/release-1.0-34/tmp)

Example: cjos-ericlimited

1. cd eclipse/release-1.0-34
2. ant -Dproduct=ericlimited [ xvcl | build-zip | build-tgz | jar | rpm ]
3. Result:
   1. xvcl:
      1. product/ericlimited/build.xml
      2. product/ericlimited/tgz/build.xml
      3. product/ericlimited/tgz/project.spec
      4. product/ericlimited/zip/module/ericlimited/build.xml
      5. product/ericlimited/zip/module/stub-ericlimited/build.xml

   2. build-zip:
      1. product/ericlimited/build/cjos-ericlimited-1.0-34.1.zip
         1. (was rpmbuild/SOURCE/cjos-ericlimited-1.0-34.zip)

   3. build-tar:
      1. product/ericlimited/build/project.tar

   4. build-tgz:
      1. product/ericlimited/build/cjos-ericlimited-1.0-34.tgz
         1. (was rpmbuild/SOURCE/cjos-ericlimited-1.0-34.tgz)

   5. unzip:
      1. product/ericlimited/build/ericlimited-1.0-34/build.xml
      2. product/ericlimited/build/ericlimited-1.0-34/java/ant/module/script/build.xml
      3. [ product/ericlimited/build/ericlimited-1.0-34/module/stub-ericlimited/build.xml ]
      4. product/ericlimited/build/ericlimited-1.0-34/module/ericlimited/build.xml
      5. [ product/ericlimited/build/ericlimited-1.0-34/lib/rsi-consolestudio2a.jar ]

   6. jar:
      1. product/ericlimited/build/ericlimited-1.0-34/target/cjos-ericlimited.jar

   7. rpm:
      1. RPMS/cjos-ericlimited-1.0-34.n.src.rpm
      2. RPMS/cjos-ericlimited-1.0-34.n.noarch.rpm
      3. RPMS/cjos-ericlimited-ant-1.0-34.n.noarch.rpm
      4. RPMS/cjos-ericlimited-javadoc-1.0-34.n.noarch.rpm
      5. RPMS/cjos-ericlimited-websource-1.0-34.n.noarch.rpm

jar-depends-free

When creating a ZIP archive, include specific jars.

 jar-depends-free=source-directory

Resource

Coming soon: Support resources in jars.

summary

Optional. This is an attribute of the product tag.

In an RPM, a summary is the short description of a product.

Example:

 ----- distribution.xml -----
 :
 <product name="cjos-ericlimited" summary="CjOS ERIC - Limited">
 :

 ----- tgz/product.spec -----
 :
 Summary: CjOS ERIC - Limited
 :

Now supported: Summary is set once and only once.

description

Optional. This is an attribute of the product tag.

In an RPM, a description is a (long) description of a product.

Example:

 ----- distribution.xml -----
 :
 <product name="cjos-ericlimited" description="This is part of the CjOS Project Distribution.">
 :

 ----- tgz/product.spec -----
 :
 %description
 This is part of the CjOS Project Distribution.
 :

Now supported: Description is set once and only once.

Binary ZIP

A binary edition contains a pre-compiled jar.

Coming Soon: cjos-ericlimited-1.0-34.1-bin.zip

Source ZIP

A source edition contains Java source code and resources.

Coming Soon: cjos-ericlimited-1.0-34.1-src.zip

JOS Technical Edition

Coming Soon: cjos-all-joste-1.0-34

 Requires: cjos-ericlimited-joste >= 1.0-34.1

Coming Soon: cjos-ericlimited-joste-1.0-34.1.noarch.rpm

 Requires: cjos-ericlimited-websource >= 1.0-34.1
 ln -s -f /usr/share/cjos/websource/ericlimited /usr/share/cjos/joste-cdrom/websource/ericlimited