Description

Installs and configures Apache Ant

Requirements

Platform:

• Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora

The following Opscode cookbooks are dependencies:

• java
• ark

Attributes

• node['ant']['version'] - defaults to 1.8.2
• node['ant']['home']- defaults to /usr/local/ant
• node['ant']['url'] - the download url for the ant binary zip
• node['ant']['checksum'] - the sha256 checksum for the ant binary zip downloaded in the url
• node['ant']['install_method'] - the installation recipe to use, can be "package" (default) or "source".
• node['ant']['libraries'] - a hash of libraries and their URLs installed with the "ant_library" LWRP in the install_source recipe. The hash is the form {"library-name" => "http://url.to.library.jar.file"}

Resources/Providers

ant_library

Actions

• :install - (Default) Install the ant library specified.

Attributes

• name - name of the library
• url - url where the jar for the library can be downloaded

Examples

ant_library "ant-contrib" do
  url "http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=ant-contrib/ant-contrib/1.0b3/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar"
end

Usage

Simply include the recipe where you want Apache Ant installed.

Recipes

ant::install_package

Backwards compatible recipe for older users of the cookbook. Installs Ant, Ant-Contribs, and Ivy using your OS's package manager.

ant::install_source

Installs Ant using the ark resource and a URL for an Ant archive. Adds an $ANT_HOME to your environment. Uses the ant::library LWRP to install optional Ant packages into the Ant installation's lib directory.

TODO

• plugin support
• global config template - /etc/ant/ant.conf

License and Author

Author:: Seth Chisamore (schisamo@opscode.com)

Copyright 2010, Opscode, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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