Skip to end of metadata
  • Created by Former user, last modified by Former user on Oct 22, 2013
Go to start of metadata

You are viewing an old version of this page. View the current version.

Compare with Current View Page History

« Previous Version 4 Next »

Apache Ant integration

IzPack can be easily integrated inside an Ant build process.

E.g.:

 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project default="install">
    <path id="build.classpath">
        <fileset dir="${user.home}/IzPack">
            <include name="lib/*.jar" />
        </fileset>
    </path>
    <taskdef name="izpack" classpathref="build.classpath" classname="com.izforge.izpack.ant.IzPackTask" />

    <target name="install">
        <izpack input="install.xml"
                output="IzPack-install.jar"
                installerType="standard"
                inheritAll="true"
                basedir="${basedir}"
                izPackDir="${user.home}/IzPack/" />
    </target>
</project>

The above assumes that the IzPack distribution has been installed to ${user.home}/IzPack.

The IzPack task takes the following parameters:
  • 'input': the XML installation file. The installation can be specified as an external file, or embedded using a config child element.
  • 'output': the output jar installer file
  • 'installerType': optional. standard or web. If web, the <webdir> attribute must be specified in the input file. Used to force creation of a standard installer when the <webdir> attribute has been used.

  • 'inheritAll': optional, boolean. If true all properties defined in the ant build process are transmitted to izpack parser for substitution. 

  • 'baseDir': the base directory to resolve the relative paths
  • 'IzPackDir': the IzPack home directory

Embedding the installation file using a config element

Instead of using the 'input' attribute to specify an external installation document, you can embed the installation config as a child of the IzPack task using a config child element with a CDATA section. For example:

 

<property name="jboss.home.url" value="http://www.jboss.com/" />
...
 
<!-- Call IzPack with an embedded install using the config element -->
<IzPack output="${dist.dir}/IzPack-install.jar"
        installerType="standard"
        basedir="${dist.dir}"
        inheritAll="true"
        IzPackDir="${dist.dir}/">
        <config><![CDATA[
<installation version="1.0">
   <info>
      <appname>JBossAS</appname>
      <appversion>4.0.2</appversion>
      <appsubpath>jboss-4.0.2</appsubpath>
      <authors>
         <author name="JBoss Inc." email="sales@jboss.com"/>
      </authors>
      <url>@{jboss.home.url}</url>
      <javaversion>1.4</javaversion>
   </info>
...
        ]]></config>
</IzPack>

 

Property references of the form

 

@{x}

 

are replaced by the associated x ant property if it is defined.

  • No labels