Ant setup

Apache Ant is a Java-based tool with XML-based configuration files. BIA Reporting uses this open-source software to deploy the metadata into the databases and ETL tools from files on disk.

To install Ant choose a directory and copy the distribution file there. This directory will be known as ANT_HOME. The Apache Ant distribution files can be found on the core installation disks or downloaded from ant.apache.org. Version 1.8.2 should be installed.

Once Ant has been installed some modifications need to be made:

• set the System Environment variable ANT_HOME to the location you have just unzipped Ant to.
• add the entry %ANT_HOME%\bin; to the start of your PATH environment variable.
• create an environment variable ANT_OPTS and set this variable to "-Xmx512m" (do not include the quotes).
• Ensure the following are included in the components\BIBuildTools\lib-ext directory
  • ant.jar
  • ant-contrib-0.6.jar

The Ant-Contrib project is a collection of user supplied tasks (like and <if> task) and a development playground for experimental tasks like a compilation task for different compilers. The Apache Ant distribution files can be found on the core installation disks or downloaded from ant-contrib.sourceforge.net. Ant-contrib-0.6 is the version to be installed.