[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Our team was trying to write a custom target in the NetBeans build.xml. Since there were so many targets in the sunspot build.xml it calls, it was making my heads spin thinking about the interactions. So I turned it into a visual dependency graph.

Sharing in case anyone else is reading the xml:

• PDF showing all the targets and their dependencies. (This is a really tiny font, you need to zoom in and scroll around.)

• Blog post on how I created this.

Ant terminology for anyone reading this who is confused:

• build.xml - the name of the file containing instructions on how to build/package/deploy the java code

• target - kind of like a method except in XML and it gets called differently

• sunspot build.xml - comes with the plugins - has many targets and calls/includes other xml files with even more targets