How to build a project in eclipse developed in Oracle JDeveloper with oc4j
Adding Oracle Ant Tasks to Eclipse Eclipse -> Ant -> OC4J Mucking around with Eclipse lately, I wanted to use the <oracle:> Ant tasks from the IDE. OC4J comes with its own standard Ant distribution which has the <oracle:> Ant tasks already seeded within it. One option therefore was to swap the distribution of Ant being used by Eclipse with the one in the OC4J distribution. But that seemed a little severe -- how about we add the <oracle:> tasks to Eclipse instead. After a bit of trial and a bit more of error, I have it working. In the end, the steps required to make it work are quite simple, with one major consideration: it's necessary to have an OC4J environment local to the Eclipse IDE. The <oracle:> Ant tasks are packaged to run within the context of OC4J. The Manifest.mf file of the JAR files contain Class-Path entries which define the other required libraries. So take it as a given, that as a minimum you need an OC4J environme