ArcGIS Engine Developer Guide

BUILDING A COMMAND-LINE JAVA APPLICATION
main.class=engine.scenario.analyst3d.TintoPoint
#TinToPoint command line args
input.tin.path=\
output.shape.path=\
2. Save and close the file.
Creating the properties.xml file
The properties.xml file sets Ant properties for the build environment. Ant properties
can be set explicitly or loaded from a file. For simplicity, you will add the
dependent properties from a file, properties.xml.
1. Create an XML file named properties.xml and add the following Ant properties:
2. Save and close the file.
To learn more about private and public targets
used in Ant scripts, see the Ant documentation
available from the Apache Ant Web site,
http://ant.apache.org/.
Creating the build.xml file
Ant build scripts are written in XML and contain one project and at least one
task. Each project defines one or more targets that combine tasks for execution.
In this scenario, the project name is “ArcGIS Engine Developer Scenario”, and its
build script needs to contain the four private and three public targets, as listed
respectively below:
• init—creates the build directory structure.
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