Automate the Plug-In
Build Process
Apache Ant is used
by the scripts in the SDK to generate plug-in project templates and to build
plug-ins.
Verify that you have a Java
environment installed on your development machine. See
Set Up for Java Development.
You can set up Apache Ant in
your development environment to generate plug-in project templates and build
plug-ins out of the projects. You can also build the samples provided with the
vSphere Client
SDK.
To use the SDK build scripts
inside Eclipse, you can use the Apache Ant version provided with the Eclipse
package. The following procedure sets up Apache Ant for running scripts by
using the command line console.
- From the Apache Ant site at http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi, download the Apache Ant binary distribution.For developing HTML plug-ins, download Apache Ant 1.9.x.
- Install Apache Ant by following the provided instructions for the operating system of your development machine.
- Set theANT_HOMEenvironment variable to the directory on your development machine where you installed Apache Ant.