Qasim Rasheed

As I mentioned during the session that I'll be releasing the code after the conference. It took me a while as some work related issues took precedence. Anyways without further delay, you can download the code from the following links

• Presentation
• ANT demo
• CFUnit demo
• Selenium demo
• CFPrototype Application with unit tests, selenium tests and the build files.

I appreciate the patience as several folks have emailed me to inquire about the code.

One thing that I mentioned during my first presentation at CFUnited was to change the ANT home in eclipse preferences. Eclipse comes bundled with ANT however I like to keep ANT in one central location as

• All ANT external jars can be placed under ANT/lib folder. In this way it becomes available to all Eclipse projects
• It is easier to upgrade to a newer version of ANT if one becomes available
• If I've to switch machines, I can just copy the ANT folder to a new machine without much fuss

These are the steps to change the ANT home for Eclipse

1. Download the latest ANT distribution from here and unzip it to a folder in your drive e.g. c:\ant
2. Go to Windows -> Preferences
3. Browse to the ANT section either by clicking ANT or using the filter box on the top.
4. Under Runtime you'll see an entry for ANT Home. Click the button "Ant Home" and browse to the directory where you have unzipped ANT distribution
5. Click "Apply"

Hope that helps

I saw this on DZone this afternoon where Dan from UK is presenting 15 valuable tips for ANT. We use ANT quite extensively at work and I have been looking for ways to improve several ANT builds. Here are few of our use cases

• Unit testing of CFC and CFM file using CFUnit
• Acceptance testing for running Selenium test
• Testing/Production server deployment.
• various backup processes for databases, files etc....

Dan has also mentioned a free tool named yWorks ANT Explorer which seems quite interesting. It is available as an Eclipse plugin as well as a Stand alone version