README.md

Java 1.7 Processing Formats Library

This is the Java implementation of the library used to generate and parse the Processing Formats.

Dependencies

• Processing Formats utilizes JSON for formatting.
• Processing Formats was written in Java 1.7
• Processing Formats is built with Apache Ant, and was written using Eclipse. Eclipse project files, source files, and ant build.xml are included
• Processing Formats utilizes json.simple to format, parse, and write JSON. A copy of the json.simple jar is included in this project.
• Processing Formats uses junit for unit testing.
• Processing Formats uses Cobertura and supporting jars for coverage testing.

Building

The steps to get and build Processing-formats.jar using ant are as follows:

1. Clone processing-formats.
2. Open a command window and change directories to /java/
3. To build the jar file, run the command ant jar
4. To run junit tests, run the command ant test.
5. To generate javadocs, run the command ant javadoc
6. To compile, instrument, test, run coverage report, generate javadocs, build jar, run the command ant all

Using

Once you are able to build the Processing-formats jar, simply include the jar file in your application.