Installing XDoclet

As mentioned earlier, XDoclet requires Ant in order to do its required work and, of course, Java. For this reason, the first step in installing XDoclet is to install Ant. Once Ant is in place and has been verified to be working correctly, you can fire up your browser and surf to http://xdoclet. sourceforge .net. On this page, you can click the link Download And Install, on the left navigation bar. This link will bring you to a page where you can download XDoclet. The options include:

• xdoclet-lib-1.x: Includes libs

• xdoclet-bin-1.x: Includes libs, samples, and docs

• xdoclet-src-1.x: Includes all source code

For most developers, just download the binary and uncompress it on your system. Within the uncompressed files, you will find a directory called /lib. You will need to keep track of this directory and set the appropriate variable within your Ant build script.