Ant as new build system for JGloss

I am currently migrating the build system for JGloss from a Makefile to an 
ant script. This should provide an increased platform independence for the 
build process, since ant can be used wherever a Java Development Kit is 
installed. I also hope the build file will become less complex.

Ant is available from http://ant.apache.org/

An initial version of the ant build script "build.xml" is already available 
from CVS from the JGloss main branch. Creation of the JGloss JAR file 
already works, creation of the distribution files is not done yet.

I am also changing the format of the JGloss documentation file from 
SGML-based Docbook to DocBook XML. To generate the HTML documentation from 
the source file, I am using Norman Walsh's DocBook XSL Stylesheets, for PDF 
the XSL Stylesheets and FOP (http://xml.apache.org/fop/). The document 
creation process is already integrated in the ant build script.

Michael Koch
JGloss developer


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