Eclipse & Ant

[Maximilian Trenks]

Hello there,
as I am totally new to Eclipse and unfortunately also to ant I have a question.
Basically I just want to create a .jar file and a .sh file with all settings for starting my client which is located in the .jar file.
What steps do I have to make in order to accomplish above goals ?
I guess I have to write an .xml file with the ant tasks. Can I use eclipse editor to do this ?
Many thanx for your answers,
Max

[Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath]

Hi, there are no ant tasks that create platform specific 'launchers' for your application, but there is a <jar> task that can be used to jar your application classes into a deployable jar unit.
For more information lookup: http://ant.apache.org/manual

[Ed Burnette]

You don't need ant for that, all you need to do is get your project building and running ok inside Eclipse first, then right click on the project, select Export > Jar file, and follow the instructions.