Maven more dearly-Ant friendly yet to become dearly

[Comal Rajagopalaratnam Muthukumar]

Hi

In the recent past i was successful in not only creating an executable file  for a java application through maven,but also make it function through double click
While i am thankful for ranch staff who made this a possibility. i am now e ndeavouring the same way through ant command

Can any one make Ant more helpful as much as maven who was more dearly
since the jar file created by ant does not function on double click.
Also Please note the word exec only appears but nothing further.int output produced


Thanks
As
CRMK

On the First try
I used the fo;llowing build.xml

<project name="AntJavaProject" default="exec" basedir=".">
	
	<description>
		Create a Java Project (JAR) with Ant build script
	</description>

	<property name="projectName" value=" bmi/BMICalculator.java " />

	<!-- Java sources -->
	<property name="src.dir" location="src" />

	<!-- Java classes -->
	<property name="build.dir" location="bin" />

	<!-- Output, Jar -->
	<property name="dist.dir" location="dist" />

	<target name="init">
		<!-- Create the time stamp -->
		<tstamp />
		<!-- Create the build directory structure used by compile -->
		<mkdir dir="${build.dir}" />
	</target>

	<target name="compile" depends="init" description="compile the source ">
		<!-- Compile the java code from ${src.dir} into ${build.dir} -->
		<javac includeantruntime="false" srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${build.dir}" />
	</target>

	<target name="dist" depends="compile" description="package, output to JAR">
		<!-- Create the distribution directory -->
		<mkdir dir="${dist.dir}" />

		<!-- Put everything in ${build} into the {$projectName}-${DSTAMP}.jar file -->
		<jar jarfile="${dist.dir}/${projectName}-${DSTAMP}.jar" basedir="${build.dir}">
			<manifest>
				<attribute name="Main-Class" value=" bmi/BMICalculator.java " />
			</manifest>
		</jar>
		
		
		
		</target>
		
			<target name="clean" description="clean up">
				<delete dir="${build.dir}" />
				<delete dir="${dist.dir}" />
			</target>
		
			<!-- Default, run this -->
			<target name="exec" depends="clean, compile, dist"  />

		
	</project>
***************************************************************************************	
	Ant was tried as follows
	
**********************************************************************************

C:\Program Files\java\bin\apache-maven-3.3.9-bin\bin\apache-ant-1.9.7\bin>ant
Buildfile: C:\Program Files\java\bin\apache-maven-3.3.9-bin\bin\apache-ant-1.9.7
\bin\build.xml

clean:

init:
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\Program Files\java\bin\apache-maven-3.3.9-bin\bin\ap
ache-ant-1.9.7\bin\bin

compile:
    [javac] Compiling 1 source file to C:\Program Files\java\bin\apache-maven-3.
3.9-bin\bin\apache-ant-1.9.7\bin\bin
    [javac] Note: C:\Program Files\java\bin\apache-maven-3.3.9-bin\bin\apache-an
t-1.9.7\bin\src\java\BMICalculator.java uses or overrides a deprecated API.
    [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.

dist:
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\Program Files\java\bin\apache-maven-3.3.9-bin\bin\ap
ache-ant-1.9.7\bin\dist
      [jar] Building jar: C:\Program Files\java\bin\apache-maven-3.3.9-bin\bin\a
pache-ant-1.9.7\bin\dist\ bmi\BMICalculator.java -20170327.jar

exec:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second
**************************************************************

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

exec: prints with nothing after it because the target is empty:
<target name="exec" depends="clean, compile, dist"  />

If you wanted it to print something, you could put an echo in it.

[Comal Rajagopalaratnam Muthukumar]

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:exec: prints with nothing after it because the target is empty:
<target name="exec" depends="clean, compile, dist"  />

If you wanted it to print something, you could put an echo in it.

Hi

Thanks a lot .Now  with the command echo i can print  message.My execuatblefile needs an attribute that supports for executing the jar  so built .shall be
thankful if this is substituted thus enabling  ant being equated to Maven in status atleast as per the tiltle
An example code  will be ideal
Thanks once again
AS
CRMK