Compiling eclipse source code with Ant

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http://blog.csdn.net/gonxi/article/details/603947

First, what is Eclipse source code compilation?

Eclipse Source code compiler provides an automated way for developers to compile Java code, generate Javadoc, and finally, produce a zip file from the source tree of the downloaded Eclipse runtime. The final result of source code compilation is an eclipse that can be run.

Ii. Obtaining source code

The source code compilation download contains all the Java code, non-Java resources and scripts needed to compile a full version of Eclipse.

Although you can manually edit the Build.xml file in each feature and plugin, they are generated by the Eclipse Pde-build plugin. As a result, you need to download a new source code to compile the zip file when the Eclipse source version changes, such as adding or reducing plugins.

The detailed source code compilation version of Eclipse is built with the ZIP file name that is included in the source code compilation. For example, Eclipse-sourcebuild-srcincluded-3.0.zip compiling the eclipse version

Compiling eclipse source code with Ant