Description

Installs and configures Apache Ant

Requirements

Platform:

• Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora

Dependencies

The following Chef cookbooks are dependencies:

• ark

Attributes

• node['ant']['version'] - defaults to 1.8.2
• node['ant']['home']- defaults to /usr/local/ant
• node['ant']['url'] - the download url for the ant binary zip
• node['ant']['checksum'] - the sha256 checksum for the ant binary zip downloaded in the url
• node['ant']['install_method'] - the installation recipe to use, can be "package" (default) or "source".
• node['ant']['libraries'] - a hash of libraries and their URLs installed with the "ant_library" LWRP in the install_source recipe. The hash is the form {"library-name" => "http://url.to.library.jar.file"}

Resources

ant_library

Actions

• :install - (Default) Install the ant library specified.

Attributes

• name - name of the library
• url - url where the jar for the library can be downloaded

Examples

ant_library "ant-contrib" do
  url "http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=ant-contrib/ant-contrib/1.0b3/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar"
end

Usage

NOTE This cookbook requires java to be installed. You can include the java community cookbook and use the default recipe along with specific attributes to install, or you can install using your own cookbook.

Include a recipe in your wrapper cookbook where you want Apache Ant installed.

Recipes

ant::install_package

Backwards compatible recipe for older users of the cookbook. Installs Ant, Ant-Contribs, and Ivy using your OS's package manager.

NOTE Ivy is not available with CentOS 5-6 package manager. You must use install_source recipe for these OS versions.

ant::install_source

Installs Ant using the ark resource and a URL for an Ant archive. Adds an $ANT_HOME to your environment.

Uses the ant::library LWRP to install optional Ant packages into the Ant installation's lib directory.

TODO

• plugin support
• global config template - /etc/ant/ant.conf

License and Author

Author:: Seth Chisamore (schisamo@opscode.com)

Copyright 2016, Chef Software, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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