Ch. 1 - Installing and
Configuring Linux

Ch. 2 - Deploying Torque (Open PBS)

Ch. 3 - Deploying Sun Grid Engine (SGE)

Ch. 4 - Deploying The PostgreSQL Relational Database

Ch. 5 - Fixing Java and ANT

Removing default Java

Java installation

Installing Ant

Ch. 6 - Deploying The Globus Toolkit 4.0.x

Ch. 7 - Connecting Globus Gram WS and Torque (Open PBS)

Ch. 8 - Connecting Globus Gram WS and SUN Grid Engine

Ch. 9 - A Distributed Grid Application

Chapter 5: Fixing Java and ANT

Installing Ant

Ant is a 'make like' tool for Java development. It is required to compile the source of some components of the Globus Toolkit. When the default java was removed more then likely so was ant and that is desired.

You should download version 1.6.5 or better of the ant tool. You can download version 1.6.5 using the 'wget' command:

Note: The following code appears on multiple lines, but it is 'one' line of code

[root@nodeB ~]# wget http://apache.mirrormax.net/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.6.5-bin.tar.bz2

The file should look like this:

[root@nodeB opt]# ls -l apache-ant-1.6.5-bin.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6743024 Jun 2 2005 apache-ant-1.6.5-bin.tar.bz2

The md5 checksum should be this:

[root@nodeB opt]# md5sum apache-ant-1.6.5-bin.tar.bz2
26031ee1a2fd248ad0cc2e7f17c44c39 apache-ant-1.6.5-bin.tar.bz2

Move the tarball to the /opt directory and unpack it:

[root@nodeB ~]# mv apache-ant-1.6.5-bin.tar.bz2 /opt/
[root@nodeB ~]# cd /opt/
[root@nodeB opt]# tar -jxf apache-ant-1.6.5-bin.tar.bz2

After unpacking the ditribution should look like this:

[root@nodeB opt]# ls -l apache-ant-1.6.5 total 208
drwxr-xr-x	2	root	root	4096	Feb 20 11:32	bin
drwxr-xr-x	6	root	root	4096	Feb 20 11:32	docs
drwxr-xr-x	3	root	root	4096	Feb 20 11:32	etc
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	126	Jun 2 2005	INSTALL
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	17191	Jun 2 2005	KEYS
drwxr-xr-x	2	root	root	4096	Feb 20 11:32	lib
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	11766	Jun 2 2005	LICENSE
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	3356	Jun 2 2005	LICENSE.dom
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	677	Jun 2 2005	LICENSE.sax
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	2698	Jun 2 2005	LICENSE.xerces
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	747	Jun 2 2005	NOTICE
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	2657	Jun 2 2005	README
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	289	Jun 2 2005	TODO
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	18478	Jun 2 2005	welcome.html
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	109297	Jun 2 2005	WHATSNEW

Next set up your environment so that ANT_HOME is defined and the ant tools are in your PATH:

[root@nodeB opt]# export ANT_HOME=/opt/apache-ant-1.6.5
[root@nodeB opt]# export PATH=$ANT_HOME/bin:$PATH
[root@nodeB opt]# which ant
/opt/apache-ant-1.6.5/bin/ant
[root@nodeB opt]# ant -version
Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on June 2 2005

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