Migrate to Maven

README.md

@@ -200,18 +200,7 @@ pointer an HTTP resource (i.e. URL) but not via pointing to a local file (such a
 
 ### Using APE from Java programs
 
-To simplify calling APE from Java we provide the `ACEParser` interface which
-is effectively a Java-style front-end to querying the predicate `get_ape_results/2`.
-`ACEParser` is implemented by the following classes:
-
-  - `APELocal` accesses APE via JPL, the bidirectional Prolog/Java interface, which is included in the SWI-Prolog installation
-  - `APESocket` accesses APE via its socket server
-  - `APEWebservice` accesses APE via its HTTP server
-
-To build `attempto_ape.jar` containing the mentioned classes, run `ant` in the `java`-subdirectory.
-
-    cd java
-    ant
+See the documentation in [java/](java/).
 
 
 ### Some examples

java/README.md

@@ -8,35 +8,36 @@ Copyright 2008-2013, Attempto Group, University of Zurich (http://attempto.ifi.u
 Content
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-The Java Interface for APE consists of one jar-file `attempto-ape.jar`,
-which contains various interfaces to APE:
+To simplify calling APE from Java programs, we provide the `ACEParser` interface which
+is effectively a Java-style front-end to querying the predicate `get_ape_results/2`.
+`ACEParser` is implemented by the following classes:
 
   - `APELocal` accesses APE via JPL, the bidirectional Prolog/Java interface, which is included in the SWI-Prolog installation;
   - `APESocket` accesses APE via its socket server;
   - `APEWebservice` accesses APE via its HTTP server.
 
-See docs/index.html for the detailed documentation of the packages and classes
-(generated by `ant createjavadoc`).
 
+Building with Maven
+-------------------
 
-Compilation
------------
+The Java Interface for APE can be compiled into a single jar-file `attempto-ape.jar`.
 
-Apache Ant+Ivy is needed for compilation. The following commands are available:
+First install SWI-Prolog's JPL into your local Maven repository.
+See [install-jpl.sh](install-jpl.sh) for an example on how do it.
 
-- `ant compile` compiles the Java source code.
-- `ant createjars` creates the jar-files.
-- `ant createjavadoc` creates the Javadoc documentation pages.
-- `ant clean` deletes all automatically generated files like the compiled Java classes, the
-  jar-files, and the Javadoc files.
-- `ant buildeverything` builds everything from scratch.
-- `ant test` runs unit tests (see more below).
+Building the jar-file.
+
+	mvn package -DskipTests
+
+Building the documentation, licenses, etc.
+
+	mvn site
 
 
 Testing
 -------
 
-In order to run the unit tests (`ant test`), first compile `ape.exe`.
+In order to run the unit tests (`mvn test`), first compile `ape.exe`.
 
 For the `APELocal` tests to succeed, place `ape.exe` into the APE root directory
 and execute (in any directory):
@@ -54,4 +55,4 @@ For the `APEWebservice` tests to succeed, start the APE HTTP server:
 
 Now run
 
-	ant test
+	mvn test

java/install-jpl.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+mvn install:install-file \
+-Dfile=/usr/local/lib/swipl-6.4.1/lib/jpl.jar \
+-DgroupId=jpl \
+-DartifactId=jpl \
+-Dversion=6.4.1 \
+-Dpackaging=jar \
+-DgeneratePom=true