You will need the the latest version of the Apache Ant tool. This Java tool makes building a JSwat distribution very easy. Download and install Ant before continuing.
Building a JSwat binary or source package with Ant is very
straight-forward. First, download and install Ant, which is really
quite easy. Next, invoke Ant from the directory containing the JSwat
build.xml
file. This will run the default target which
should make the source and binary packages. The distributions are
packed in .tar.gz
and .zip
files. The
.tar.gz
files are compressed tape archive files, common
on Unix platforms, while the .zip
files are popular on
Windows platforms.
Testing the build is pretty straightforward. Extract the files
from the archive created during the build process described above,
then start JSwat as described in the README.html
file.
The general idea is to make sure the JSwat jar file contains all the
necessary classes and resource bundles. If any errors occur you may
want to check that the build.xml
includes all of the
necessary files for JSwat to run properly.
Some ideas for what to test:
apropos
'.All of the .tar.gz
and .zip
files should
now be uploaded to the SourceForge project site. If you do
not know how this is done, see the SourceForge documentation. Be sure to
notify the people watching the project so they know of the new
release. Once this is done, visit the Freshmeat project page and add a new
release there. And finally, send out an email to the jswat-announce
mailing list with the list of changes in this release.