Building OpenGTS with ant
The Java Sources in the OpenGTS Releases form the core of the Tracking System.
On the previous pages the packaging of *.java files was analyzed. The actual compilation to *.class files is directed by the ant build process, which also takes care of archiving semantic entities in *.jar files.
So much for the plain Java Compilation Process.
The complete build process does more than compiling Java files. It creates a 'build' folder with the final binary GTS and moves configuration files and prepared web resources (Images, JavaSkripts, Style Sheets and JSP files) into it. After looking at the structure of the java packaging the build.xml file can serve as a guideline to understand the entire GTS.
The table at the bottom of this page is reflecting the major targets and their dependencies
and serves as a clickable 'table of content' for this roaf.de/opengts section.
Target dependencies
Targets with their dependencies to other targets are listed in the table below. For people it is much more useful to visualize dependencies. Ant (build.)xml files can be easily transformed into a dependency graph with the tool
Grand: Graphical Representation of ANt Dependencies
Simply download grand-ui.zip to extract grand-ui-0.7.2 and launch grand-ui.bat (on Windows) and 'Quick Open' the build file you want to visualize. The full build.xml file for OpenGTS_2.4.3 looks like this
At this point of the OpenGTS analysis it makes sense to recall the goal to integrate the ROAF. Before doing so the ant build process can be used to strip down the full OpenGTS release to the vital parts needed to integrate new components.
This process is demonstrated on the next page: creating an OpenGTS Lite version.
Please click on a target (left col) to jump to the relevant page in this OpenGTS section:
| target name= | depends= |
|---|---|
| clean | |
| prepare | |
| compile | compile.base,compile.servers,compile.servlets |
| compile.base | gtsutils,gtsdb,optjars,tools,gtsdmtp |
| compile.servers | compile.base,gtsdmtp,icare,aspicore,tk10x,sipgear,taip,template |
| compile.servlets | compile.base,track,events,mologogo,gc101,gprmc,gpsmapper |
| gtsdb.jar | gtsdb |
| gtsdb | prepare,gtsutils,CompileTime.java |
| gtsutils | gtsutils.jar |
| gtsutils.compile | prepare |
| gtsutils.jar | prepare,gtsutils.compile |
| wartools.jar | wartools |
| wartools | tomcat.env,prepare,gtsdb |
| warmaps.jar | warmaps |
| warmaps | tomcat.env,prepare,gtsdb,wartools |
| track.all | track |
| track | track.compile,track.war |
| track.prepare | tomcat.env |
| track.compile | tomcat.env,prepare,gtsdb,wartools,warmaps,track.prepare |
| track.war | track.prepare |
| track.deploy | track.war |
| gprmc.all | gprmc |
| gprmc | gprmc.compile,gprmc.war |
| gprmc.compile | tomcat.env,prepare,gtsdb,wartools |
| gprmc.war | |
| gprmc.deploy | gprmc.war |
| gc101 | |
| gc101 | gc101.compile,gc101.war |
| gc101.compile | tomcat.env,prepare,gtsdb,wartools |
| gc101.war | |
| gc101.deploy | gc101.war |
| template | prepare,gtsdb |
| tk10x | prepare,gtsdb |
| tools | prepare,gtsdb,tomcat.env |
| systemProps | prepare |
| epoch | gtsutils |
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