Panther is the project name for a J2EE program I am working on to develop and sharpen my enterprise Java skills.

05/08/10 - This build sets up the basic project for development on the command line using ANT. The code is a one-up from the typical "Hello World" starter program and uses two classes... Panther.class holds the static context and entry point and the PassPhrase.class contains the service code, which basically sets the value of an instance variable to the hello world message and then calls the println function to print the value of the instance variable, which of course should be the hello world message, in this specific case, the message "Panther App - Hunting for Jobs..."

05/11/10 - This build adds junit testing. I'm using junit-4.8.2 which was downloaded as a single jar file and placed in the C:\code directory. I placed a copy of the jar file in the lib directory of the project just to keep the project simple.

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05/12/10 - This build (Panther4) expands on the log4j implementation of the previous build by adding a configuration file to the classpath. First, I added a new directory to the project root called /config and added a configuration file, log4j_panther.properties, to that directory. Then I added a copy task to the build file to make a copy of the configuration file to the /classes directory after each build. 

05/13/10 - This build (Panther5) is a copy of Panther4 that I've loaded up on Eclipse. I used the "create project from existing build.xml" option to create a Panther5 project in Eclipse. Eclipse creates a new subdirectory under the Eclipse project space and keeps the .classpath and .project files there. The build.xml can be copied into that directory too or it can be linked to build.xml being used to configure the project. I chose the later option so that I can keep everything in one build file, which can be used and tested in Eclipse AND the command line.  

Bug-001: Eclipse can't find my log4j configuration file, already tried to make sure it's in the classpath. I had to switch to a BasicConfigurer and that works fine.

  

05/26/16 - This project has evolved into a new project called Zinc and has since been dead. But it toally worked. Today I am updating the readme file as I am on day 2 of my new project Zinc Resurrection. :) 

I am currently developing on my Samsung Chronos running Windows 10, Java 8 and Eclipse 4.5.1 (Mars.1)... (64-bit). I just copied the files from a backup directory on my 3TB drive and from Eclipse created a new project using the build file. ( java | from build.xml ). Got 13 Errors. Not bad for 26 classes.