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Re: Ant for GlassFish installation

From: Arun Gupta <Arun.Gupta_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:49:28 -0800

It works on windows platform.

A less download would make GlassFish installation experience slightly
better.

Thanks,
-Arun

Dinesh Patil wrote:
> Hi Arun,
> I am currently working on fixing the issue #537, The "ant" executable
> does not have execute permission ...
> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=537
>
> once you install the
> http://java.net/download/javaee5/promoted/SunOS_X86/glassfish-installer-v2-b36.jar
> file, ant in lib/ant/bin doesn't have execute permissions, so need to
> set the permissions explicitely or have ANT_HOME defined.
>
> But once issues #537 is fixed this will not be a problem, i will update
> the instructions also.
> thanks
> Dinesh
>
> Arun Gupta wrote:
>
>> GlassFish installation instructions [1] say:
>>
>> "GlasssFish installation requires JDK 5 and Ant 1.6.5."
>>
>> There is no need for an additional Ant 1.6.5 installation on your
>> machine. I always configure GlassFish using:
>>
>> lib\ant\bin\ant -f setup.xml
>>
>> and it works!
>>
>> Is there some other reason Ant 1.6.5 is required explicitly ?
>>
>> [1] https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v2-b36.html
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Arun
>
>
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