Installing Apache Ant for ESB on Solaris

In order to compile and run sample clients for WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus, it is necessary to install Apache Ant the latest version on Solaris.

Note

See ESB Installation Prerequisites for the list of all applications necessary to install and work with WSO2 ESB.

Follow the instructions below to install Apache Ant from the command line.

Establish a SSH connection to the Linux machine or log in on the text Linux console. You should either log in as root or obtain root permissions after login via su or sudo command.

Step 1. Download Apache Ant

wget http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.8.2-bin.tar.gz

Step 2. Extract Downloaded File

gunzip -c apache-ant-1.8.2-bin.tar.gz |tar xvf -

Step 3. Set Environmental Variables

Add the following lines to BASHRC file:

export ANT_HOME=/opt/apache-ant-1.8.2
export PATH=${ANT_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

Step 4. Check Installation

ant -version