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+<project name="umlgraph" default="dist" basedir=".">
+<description>
+	The specification for all umlgraph build processes.
+	$Id$
+</description>
+
+<!-- set global properties for this build -->
+<property name="src" location="src"/>
+<property name="build" location="build"/>
+<property name="images" location="images"/>
+<property name="dist"  location="/dds/pubs/web/home/sw/umlgraph"/>
+
+<target name="init">
+	<!-- Create the time stamp -->
+	<tstamp/>
+	<!-- Create the build directory structure used by compile -->
+	<mkdir dir="${build}"/>
+	<mkdir dir="${build}/classes"/>
+	<mkdir dir="${images}"/>
+	<mkdir dir="${images}/dot"/>
+	<mkdir dir="${images}/ps"/>
+	<mkdir dir="${images}/gif"/>
+</target>
+
+<target name="compile" depends="init"
+	description="compile the source, build library " >
+	<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}/classes" excludes="RCS/*"/>
+	<jar basedir="${build}/classes" destfile="${build}/UmlGraph.jar"/>
+
+</target>
+
+<target name="ps" depends="dot"
+	description="create Postscript files out of the compiled dot sources" >
+	<apply executable="dot" dest="images/ps" parallel="false">
+		<arg value="-Tps"/>
+		<arg value="-o"/>
+		<targetfile/>
+		<srcfile/>
+		<fileset dir="images/dot"/>
+		<mapper type="glob" from="*.dot" to="*.ps"/>
+	</apply>
+</target>
+
+<target name="gif" depends="dot"
+	description="create GIF files out of the compiled dot sources" >
+	<apply executable="dot" dest="images/gif" parallel="false">
+		<arg value="-Tgif"/>
+		<arg value="-o"/>
+		<targetfile/>
+		<srcfile/>
+		<fileset dir="images/dot"/>
+		<mapper type="glob" from="*.dot" to="*.gif"/>
+	</apply>
+</target>
+
+<target name="dot" depends="compile"
+	description="create dot files out of the Java image sources" >
+	<dependset>
+		<srcfilelist
+			dir="${build}"
+			files="UmlGraph.jar"/>
+		<targetfileset
+			dir="images/dot"
+			includes="*.dot"/>
+	</dependset>
+	<apply executable="javadoc" dest="images/dot" parallel="false">
+		<arg value="-docletpath"/>
+		<arg value="${build}/UmlGraph.jar"/>
+		<arg line="-doclet UmlGraph"/>
+		<arg value="-private"/>
+		<arg value="-output"/>
+		<targetfile/>
+		<srcfile/>
+		<fileset dir="imgsrc"/>
+		<mapper type="glob" from="*.java" to="*.dot"/>
+	</apply>
+</target>
+
+
+<target name="dist" depends="compile,dot,gif"
+	description="generate the distribution" >
+	<!-- Create a fresh distribution directory -->
+	<delete dir="${dist}"/>
+	<mkdir dir="${dist}"/>
+	<!-- source files -->
+	<copy todir="${dist}" flatten="yes">
+		<fileset dir="${src}">
+			<include name="*.java"/>
+		</fileset>
+	</copy>
+	<!-- Java image source files -->
+	<copy todir="${dist}" flatten="yes">
+		<fileset dir="imgsrc"/>
+	</copy>
+	<!-- Dot image source files -->
+	<copy todir="${dist}" flatten="yes">
+		<fileset dir="${images}/dot"/>
+	</copy>
+	<!-- GIF image files -->
+	<copy todir="${dist}" flatten="yes">
+		<fileset dir="${images}/gif"/>
+	</copy>
+	<copy todir="${dist}" flatten="yes" file="makefile"/>
+	<copy todir="${dist}" flatten="yes" file="build.xml"/>
+	<copy todir="${dist}" flatten="yes" file="index.html"/>
+	<copy todir="${dist}" flatten="yes" file="${build}/UmlGraph.jar"/>
+</target>
+
+</project>