ESA Ant Task

This ant taskdef will help you to generate the Enterprise Subsystem Archive (*.esa) bundles, this could be used in traditional ant taskdef way in to the existing ant build scripts.

Getting Started

Check out Aries project and from esa-ant-task project run mvn clean install, add the generated jar from the target directory to your ant classpath e.g. ~/.ant/lib , or $ANT_HOME/lib etc.,

The following example shows how this task could be integrated into an existing ant build script,

<project name="An ant example for esa-ant" default="default">

<description>
             A simple build file to demonstrate the use of esa-ant task
  </description>

<taskdef name="esa" classname="org.apache.aries.ant.taskdefs.EsaTask" />

   	<target name="default" description="builds esa with supplied SUBSYSTEM.MF">
		<esa destfile="demo.esa" symbolicname="test-esa" manifest="${basedir}/SUBSYSTEM.MF">
			<fileset dir="/tmp/esa-ant-demo">
				<include name="*.jar" />
			</fileset>
		</esa>
</target>

<target name="default2" description="generates the SUSBYSTEM.MF based on esa contents">
		<esa destfile="demo2.esa" symbolicname="test-esa" generatemanifest="true">
			<fileset dir="/tmp/esa-ant-demo">
				<include name="*.jar" />
			</fileset>
		</esa>
</target>

</project>