Toolset
The GRITS CVS module contains all of the third party jars required to build and run the GRITS web application. However, there are still some third party tools required to actually build and run GRITS, such as an installation of the JDK, the Ant build tool and a J2EE container to deploy the GRITS web application to.
The following table outlines the complete GRITS toolset. Each tool is typically composed of several jar files, which often times themselves depend on several other third-party jar files. These dependencies are described in the following sections.
Third Party Tool |
Version |
Home Page |
Required |
Included in CVS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition |
1.4.2 (not 1.5 yet) |
Yes |
No |
|
Apache Ant |
1.6.1 or later |
Yes |
No |
|
1.2.1 |
Yes |
Yes |
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2.1.4 or later |
Yes |
Yes |
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2.1 or later |
Yes |
Yes |
||
2.0.1 or later |
Yes |
Yes |
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1.0-rc1 or later |
Yes |
Yes |
||
1.0 (not 1.1) |
Yes |
Yes |
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Eclipse IDE with MyEclipse plugin |
3.0 |
No |
No |
XDoclet
XDoclet is used to maintain the many configuration files required by the tools used by GRITS (for example, Hibernate). The use of XDoclet is importnat because it keeps all of the information abount an object (for example, it's database mapping information) in one place where it belongs, namely the Java source file itself.
The XDoclet distribution is very modular and has its functionality distributed across several jar files, which allows a project to use only the subset of functionality it needs. GRITS currently uses the following parts of XDoclet 1.2.1:
lib/build/xdoclet-1.2.1.jar lib/build/xdoclet-hibernate-module-1.2.1.jar lib/build/xdoclet-web-module-1.2.1.jar lib/build/xdoclet-webwork-module-1.2.1.jar lib/build/xdoclet-xdoclet-module-1.2.1.jar lib/build/xjavadoc-1.0.3.jar