ANT and Zend Studio

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Submitted by fusion94 on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 08:25

Zend Studio for Eclipse is a commercial edition of Eclipse plus the PDT plugin and various other additions. Unfortunately Zend decided to disable the Ant plugin in it's distribution of the Eclipse platform. Nonetheless if you'd like to run Ant scripts or simple Phing scripts it would be really useful to be able to use the Ant integration of Eclipse.

Preparation
First you need to make sure that the Eclipse Java Development Tools are available in Zend Studio for Eclipse.

From the Help menu click Software Updates > Manage Configuration.
Check for the entry Eclipse Java Development Tools.

If the entry is not listed or disabled, you need to install the Eclipse feature.

From the Help menu click Software Updates > Find and Install.
Click Search for new features to install.
Check Europa Discovery Site and click Next.
Select Java Development Tools and click Finish to install the feature.
Restart Zend Studio for Eclipse.

How to enable the Ant integration
Now it gets a little tricky.

From the File menu click New > Project.
Check Show All Wizards.
In the Wizards text field enter Ant, select Java Project from Existing Ant Buildfile and click Next.
You will be asked to enable Ant Development - confirm with Yes.
Now you can cancel the new Java Project - Ant has been activated.

Singapore Property (not verified)

06 Jun 2009 at about 03:50.

Zend

This is interesting. Maybe useful in our next site revamp. Thanks for the info

James (not verified)

11 Jul 2009 at about 06:50.

Thanks

Gah! I was wondering how to do this... I wish they would release ZS4E as a plugin/plugin site for eclipse. Thanks so much for posting this!

HolyHen (not verified)

13 Aug 2009 at about 00:45.

Thanks!

I was almost going berserk on how to solve this. Thanks for this post! How would anyone know Ant had to be activated by creating a project... *sigh*

MarkB (not verified)

19 Nov 2009 at about 13:29.

Wow thanks for the detailed

Wow thanks for the detailed tutorial about Zend Studio. It is always nice when people are publishing some sort of lesson using nice pictures, because it is easier to understand everything when you can see ti from the visual side. What about Zend Studio, it is horribly difficult for me to understand it. I was trying to make Ant plugin work there for a few days and now you are writing that Zend has disabled it. It is a real disaster. However thanks for the great article mate. I will be waiting for other great ones from you in the nearest future.

Sincerely,

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newyorker (not verified)

16 Apr 2010 at about 00:58.

ANT & Zend

Great stuff! Thanks for all the enthusiasm to offer such helpful resume information about the Ant integration here.

Steve J (not verified)

30 Apr 2010 at about 03:27.

Thank you

Thank you for the help

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Anonymous (not verified)

02 May 2010 at about 17:59.

Great Article thanks alot!

Great Article thanks alot! crossbikes

Chris (not verified)

13 May 2010 at about 04:16.

Big Thanks

Thank you so much. I already gave up on it and ran Ant form command line. It's so much easier now. I wonder why the Zend guys disabled it - especially when it comes to developer environments tools like Ant can streamline your processes.

Chris from nineLemon Web Solutions

Anonymous (not verified)

17 May 2010 at about 15:50.

Thanks! It is very Helpful

Thanks! It is very Helpful for me.. banking

Anonymous (not verified)

07 Jun 2010 at about 09:31.

Thanks

Thank you for writing this article!!!
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Anony mouse (not verified)

10 Jun 2010 at about 18:06.

Thanks, this guide will come

Thanks, this guide will come in very useful. I must get back to my pub quiz questions now!

Rory (not verified)

16 Jun 2010 at about 13:42.

This is great, very helpful -

This is great, very helpful - thank you.

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Mayank (not verified)

30 Jun 2010 at about 10:54.

Able to enhance Power of Eclipse IDE

This is very good tool because I follow all the instructions and get success to install it on my windows OS based system. How will I install it on my Mac based system?

Thanks for givining information about enhancing capabilities of my Eclipse IDE.
regards,
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01 Jul 2010 at about 02:15.