Building the validator

The HCL® Campaign Validation PDK supplies an Ant script that can build all of the code in the sample files.

The default behavior for the script is to create a jar that contains the validation classes. Optionally, it can also create Javadoc™ and run tests against the validators to ensure that they work in Campaign before trying to use the plug-in in production.

To build the validator:

1. Change to the PDK directory <IBM_IMS_Home\Campaign_Home>\devkits\validation\build

   For example: C:\IBM\IMS\Campaign\devkits\validation\build

   This directory contains the Ant script, build.xml.

2. Run the Ant jar at the command line.
   • To create the plug-in without doing any unit tests, use the ant jar command.
   • To create the plug-in and also do unit testing, use the ant run-test command.

   Ant runs the script and produces a JAR file called validator.jar in the lib subdirectory. For example:

   C:\IBM\IMS\Campaign\devkits\validation\build\lib

You now have a custom validator that can be used in HCL Campaign. Your next step is to configure Campaign to use this validator.