Overview

Commons IO uses Maven 2+ or Ant as a build system.

Commons IO requires a minimum of JDK 1.5 to build.

You may also be interested in the upgrade notes:
Upgrade from 2.0 to 2.0.1
Upgrade from 1.4 to 2.0
Upgrade from 1.3.2 to 1.4
Upgrade from 1.3, or 1.3.1 to 1.3.2
Upgrade from 1.3 to 1.3.1
Upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3
Upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2
Upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1

Maven 2 Goals

The following Maven commands can be used to build io:

  • mvn clean - clean up
  • mvn test - compile and run the unit tests
  • mvn site - create io documentation
  • mvn package - build the jar
  • mvn package -Prc - Create the source and binary distributions

Ant Goals

Note:

  • Dependencies are automatically downloaded if not specified explicitly in a build.properties file.

The following Ant commands can be used to build io:

  • ant clean - clean up
  • ant test - compile and run the unit tests
  • ant javadoc - create javadocs
  • ant jar - build the jar
  • ant dist - Create the source and binary distributions