Build eclipse project with ant

Question

I am developing JSR 268 compliant portlet and utility with eclipse. Now, the utility is designed to be a separate JAR from the portlet itself.

Does anyone now how to write an ant build.xml that will 1. Compile and JAR my utility class 2. Move the JAR to the ./lib folder of the portlet 3. Compile and maybe even delpoy the portlet to a tomcat running on localhost?

My biggest problem right now are the build-time dependencies. I dont want to hardcode all the folders as I share this project with two other developers which are on another platform. Is it possible to reuse the buildpath from eclipse?

Thank you in advance, Felipe

Solution

Does this wizard help

Rigth-click on project -> Export ... -> Ant buildfiles.

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Comments

[Brian McCutchon]

For me, it's [Right click] > "Export..." > "General" > "Ant Buildfiles".