Building JMRI with Ant

Those of you who prefer a command line approach might want to investigate "ant", a better make-like utility for Java projects. Ant is available for download at http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html/. Install it, then:

Create a directory to contain your project.
In that project directory, do a CVS checkout of the "all" module from our repository. This will create a "java" subdirectory where Ant will run, and load it with source, tests and resources. It will also create and populate directories for xml, libraries, etc in the project directory.
Change to the newly created java subdirectory. To compile, type "ant debug".
To run the program, type "ant decoderpro" or "ant jmridemo", and sit back to watch it go.
To run the test suite, type "ant alltest".
To build a jmri.jar file, type "ant dist". Note that you don't have to create the jmri.jar file to run the program.
To erase all previously compiled results and force the program to be entirely built from scratch, type "ant clean".

To make sure everything is working, before you e.g. commit back to CVS, please do:

   ant clean
   ant alltest

and make sure the tests run cleanly.