BlackBerry: create COD from JAR source file in Ant script

Question

How do I use Ant (bb-ant-tools) to compile a JAR file into a COD? i.e. with no other source files

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Reason

Ultimately, I need a script

Answer 1

Copying this answer from BlackBerry - Ant script to include JAR in project without external dependancies as per @RichardLeMesurier's request:

I had a similar problem last year, I had created a "framework" that was used as a base for multiple BB-applications, but run into problems with multiple CODs (I don't remember exactly what, something like the device refused to install multiple applications that had same external cods, if the external CODs weren't installed separately first, and then the applications). As the applications could be installed separately (one person might install only app A, another might install only app B, and yet another might install both A and B), the whole framework needed to be included in all the apps using it. I cooked up this Ant-script using bb-ant-tools (hopefully I didn't break anything removing some stuff specific to our apps and obfuscating package names etc):

    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    
    

    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    
    
    
    
     
    

    
        
        
        
        

        
            
                
            
        

        
            
                
            
        

        
            
                
            
        

        
            
                
            
        

          
        
            
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What this does, is copy all the java-files and resources from your current project and then from the framework-project to a temporary directory, replacing package names on the way for the frame-work files (as they're put into a separately named directory), this has to do with the fact that the devices also refused to install multiple applications that had same classes under same packages (namely, the framework classes, for your case this might not be necessary). After the copying and replacing is done, the application is built to target build-directory using rapc. There are separate tasks for signing, cleaning and loading the app to a simulator. Hope this helps.