Compiling the Examples

    Apache Ant is used to compile the examples from this book. The examples are contained in a directory named “HTTPRecipes”. You get this directory from the archive file you downloaded that contains the examples. For more information on how to obtain the examples from this book, refer to Appendix A.

    The examples shown here are from the HTTPRecipes directory located on my machine at /Users/jeff/HTTPRecipes. You can see the contents of this directory in Figure D.5.

Figure D.5: The Book’s Examples

    Each of these files and directories serves a specific purpose, which is listed in Table D.1.

Table D.1: Contents of the HTTP Recipes Companion Download

    To compile the book’s examples, move to the HTTPRecipes directory and execute the following command:

ant

    You should now see Figure D.6.

Figure D.6: Successful Build

    Now that you have compiled the book’s examples, you are ready to execute them.