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+<?xml version="1.0">
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you 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
+  
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+<project name="common" 
+         xmlns:ivy="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant">
+	<!-- a sample common ant build file, used for ivy multi-project tutorial
+	     feel free to copy and adapt it to your own needs
+	     Note that the only targets specific to ivy are:
+	        load-ivy
+	     	resolve
+	     	report
+	     	ivy-new-version
+	     	publish
+	     	publish-local
+	     	
+	     All other targets are usual ant based targets, which could have been written
+	     in a build not depending at all on ivy: 
+	     resolve constructs a lib directory based upon ivy dependencies, and then the lib dir 
+	     is used as in any classical ant build
+	     -->
+	
+	<property file="${common.dir}/build.properties"/>
+	
+	<property name="ivy.jar.dir" value="/opt/apache-ivy-2.0.0-rc2" />
+	<property name="ivy.jar.file" value="${ivy.jar.dir}/ivy-2.0.0-rc2.jar" />
+        <property name="sigil-ivy-plugin.jar" value="${common.dir}/../../../target/sigil-ivy-plugin.jar"/>
+
+	<target name="hello">
+	    <echo message="${ant.project.name}"/>
+	</target>
+
+	<!-- ================================= 
+          target: load-ivy         
+            this target is not necessary if you put ivy.jar in your ant lib directory
+            if you already have ivy 2.0 in your ant lib, you can simply remove this
+            target
+         ================================= -->
+    <path id="ivy.lib.path">
+	<path location="${ivy.jar.file}"/>
+	<path location="${sigil-ivy-plugin.jar}"/>
+	<!--
+	<path location="${user.home}/src/tmp/ivy/build/ivy.jar"/>
+	-->
+    </path>
+
+    <target name="load-ivy" depends="ivy-taskdefs">
+	<ivy:settings file="${common.dir}/ivysettings.xml" />
+    </target>
+
+    <target name="ivy-taskdefs" unless="ivy.loaded">
+    	<property name="ivy.loaded" value="true"/>
+	<echo message="Loading Ivy ..."/>
+	<!--
+    	<taskdef resource="org/apache/ivy/ant/antlib.xml"
+    	         uri="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant" classpath="${ivy.jar.file}"/>
+	-->
+    	<taskdef resource="org/apache/ivy/ant/antlib.xml"
+    	         uri="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant"
+		 loaderRef="ivyLoader"
+		 classpath="${ivy.jar.file}"/>
+
+	<taskdef name="sigil.bundle"
+		 classname="org.cauldron.bld.ant.BundleTask"
+		 classpath="${sigil-ivy-plugin.jar}:${bndlib.jar}"/>
+    </target>    
+
+    <path id="lib.path.id">
+        <fileset dir="${lib.dir}" />
+    </path>
+
+    <path id="run.path.id">
+        <path refid="lib.path.id" />
+        <path location="${classes.dir}" />
+    </path>
+
+    
+	<!-- setup ivy default configuration with some custom info -->
+	<property name="ivy.local.default.root" value="${repository.dir}/local"/>
+	<property name="ivy.shared.default.root" value="${repository.dir}/shared"/>
+
+   	<!-- here is how we would have configured ivy if we had our own ivysettings file
+    <ivy:settings file="${common.dir}/ivysettings.xml" />
+    -->
+
+	
+    <!-- ================================= 
+          target: resolve              
+         ================================= -->
+    <target name="resolve" depends="clean-lib, load-ivy" description="--> resolve and retrieve dependencies with ivy">
+        <mkdir dir="${lib.dir}"/> <!-- not usually necessary, ivy creates the directory IF there are dependencies -->
+    	
+    	<!-- the call to resolve is not mandatory, retrieve makes an implicit call if we don't -->
+    	<ivy:resolve file="${ivy.file}"/>
+    	<ivy:retrieve pattern="${lib.dir}/[artifact].[ext]" />
+    </target>
+    
+    <!-- ================================= 
+          target: report              
+         ================================= -->
+    <target name="report" depends="resolve" description="--> generates a report of dependencies">
+        <ivy:report todir="${build.dir}"/>
+    </target>
+    
+    <!-- ================================= 
+          target: compile              
+         ================================= -->
+    <target name="compile" depends="resolve" description="--> compile the project">
+        <mkdir dir="${classes.dir}" />
+        <javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${classes.dir}" classpathref="lib.path.id" debug="true" />
+    </target>
+    
+    <!-- ================================= 
+          target: run
+         ================================= -->
+    <target name="run" depends="version, compile" description="--> compile and run the project">
+        <java classpathref="run.path.id" classname="${main.class.name}"/>
+    </target>
+
+	<target name="ivy-new-version" depends="load-ivy" unless="ivy.new.revision">
+    	<!-- default module version prefix value -->
+		<property name="module.version.prefix" value="${module.version.target}-dev-b" />
+		
+    	<!-- asks to ivy an available version number -->
+		<ivy:info file="${ivy.file}" />
+    	<ivy:buildnumber 
+    		organisation="${ivy.organisation}" module="${ivy.module}" 
+    		revision="${module.version.prefix}" defaultBuildNumber="1" revSep=""/>
+	</target>
+
+    <target name="local-version">
+		<tstamp>
+			<format property="now" pattern="yyyyMMddHHmmss"/>
+		</tstamp>
+        <property name="ivy.new.revision" value="${module.version.target}-local-${now}"/>
+    </target>
+	
+	<target name="version" depends="ivy-new-version">
+    	<!-- create version file in classpath for later inclusion in jar -->
+        <mkdir dir="${classes.dir}"/>
+		<echo message="version=${ivy.new.revision}" file="${classes.dir}/${ant.project.name}.properties" append="false" />
+
+		<!-- load generated version properties file -->
+        <property file="${classes.dir}/${ant.project.name}.properties" />
+    </target>
+
+    <!-- ================================= 
+          target: jar              
+         ================================= -->
+    <target name="jar" depends="version, compile" description="--> make a jar file for this project">
+
+	<!--
+        <jar destfile="${jar.file}">
+            <fileset dir="${classes.dir}" />
+            <manifest>
+                <attribute name="Built-By" value="${user.name}"/>
+                <attribute name="Build-Version" value="${version}" />
+            </manifest>
+        </jar>
+	-->
+
+        <sigil.bundle destpattern="${build.dir}/[id].[ext]"
+                classpathref="run.path.id"/>
+    </target>
+
+    <!-- ================================= 
+          target: publish              
+         ================================= -->
+    <target name="publish" depends="clean-build, jar" description="--> publish this project in the ivy repository">
+    	<ivy:publish artifactspattern="${build.dir}/[artifact].[ext]" 
+    			           resolver="shared"
+    			           pubrevision="${version}" 
+    			           status="release"
+    	/>
+        <echo message="project ${ant.project.name} released with version ${version}" />
+    </target>
+
+    <!-- ================================= 
+          target: publish-local              
+         ================================= -->
+    <target name="publish-local" depends="local-version, jar" description="--> publish this project in the local ivy repository">
+    	<ivy:publish artifactspattern="${build.dir}/[artifact].[ext]" 
+    			        resolver="local"
+    			        pubrevision="${version}"
+				        pubdate="${now}"
+    			        status="integration"
+    					forcedeliver="true"
+    	/>
+        <echo message="project ${ant.project.name} published locally with version ${version}" />
+    </target>
+
+	<!-- ================================= 
+          target: clean-local              
+         ================================= -->
+	<target name="clean-local" description="--> cleans the local repository for the current module">
+	   <delete dir="${ivy.local.default.root}/${ant.project.name}"/>
+	</target>
+
+	<!-- ================================= 
+          target: clean-lib              
+         ================================= -->
+    <target name="clean-lib" description="--> clean the project libraries directory (dependencies)">
+        <delete includeemptydirs="true" dir="${lib.dir}"/>
+    </target>
+
+    <!-- ================================= 
+          target: clean-build              
+         ================================= -->
+    <target name="clean-build" description="--> clean the project built files">
+        <delete includeemptydirs="true" dir="${build.dir}"/>
+    </target>
+
+    <!-- ================================= 
+          target: clean              
+         ================================= -->
+    <target name="clean" depends="clean-build, clean-lib" description="--> clean the project" />
+</project>