Ant

Versions of Ptolemy II after Ptolemy II 8.0.1 include an Ant (http://ant.apache.org/) script that defines useful targets like building the actor documentation and actor/demonstration index.

See the Ptolemy II Ant documentation for details, but the overview is that there are two ant build files in the tree:

The $PTII/build.default.xml file is set up for a vanilla installation, it excludes third party packages like Java3D and Matlab.
The $PTII/build.xml file is created if you run ./configure

To access an Ant file in Eclipse:

Bring up the Ant view with: Window | Show View | Ant
If the Ant menu choice is not present, find it under Others
Right click on the Ant pane and select Add Buildfiles
In the Buildfile Selection window, open the ptII table and browse to either:
- build.default.xml - if you did not run ./configure
or
- build.xml - if you did run ./configure
If both are present, then select the build.xml file, it is more configured for the environment.

To build the Javadocs and the actor documentation:

In the Ant pane, expand the ptII task.
Double click on the javadoc tab.

The next step is to use Eclipse Debugger