stoken-utils - AppInfo for build number automation

Overview
In my mind there needs to be a simple way to automate build numbers within a project. The stoken-utils project is handy for helping with this using features of ANT and JAVA. It is a small portable library that, among other thing, helps manage project level build numbers.

Project Information
stoken-utils can be downloaded here. You may also find the logger feature of this library also interesting.

Usage
I have already blogged about this approach here. In a nutshell, usage is not to complex.

• Add a small XML stub to your build.xml
• Modify it with your project specifics (name, description, copyright,....)
• Load appinfo.properties via AppInfo.init(...) see javadoc.
• Access values using AppInfo static methods.
  

To look at some code that uses this libarary check out the subversion tab of language-translate.

Final Thoughts
stoken-utils has a simple approach for managing build numbers using ANT and JAVA.