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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<project name="CCM Content and Collaboration Management" default="usage">
+
+	<description>Structured and DB backed Content and Collaboration Management System</description>
+
+	<!-- Base script and central entry point
+         manages all the elements of the Easy CCM  Development Configuration (ECDC)
+		 build system. It does nothing really by itself but delegates to 
+		 specialized scripts.
+		 This file must be copied along with the other *.xml and *.properties into
+	     the base development projekt directory (usually trunk)                 -->
+
+
+	<!-- base directory of the development environment
+		 default is current directory (sysprop user.dir) -->
+	<property name="project.dir" value="${user.dir}" />
+
+	<!-- lib directory of ECDC
+		 contains additional xml scripts to do the real work -->
+	<property name="tools.script.dir" value="${project.dir}/tools-ng/ecdc/scriptlib" />
+
+	<!-- bundles directory of ECDC
+		 contains software to be installed (e.g. Tomcat servlet container)   -->
+	<property name="tools.bundles.dir" value="${project.dir}/tools-ng/ecdc/bundles" />
+
+
+	<!-- defines essential system variables and reads the configuration property files
+		 runtime.property  - defines the servlet container runtime for testing
+		 build.properties  - defines details for building (compiler options, etc)
+		 ccm.properties    - defines CCM projet details, esp. the bundle file which
+							 contains configuration details and the web.xml file	-->
+	<import file="${tools.script.dir}/build-common.xml" />
+
+
+	<!-- its task configure must be executed before any build / deploy can happen
+		 it generates the build targets for the project specified in project.xml 	-->
+	<import file="${tools.script.dir}/build-configure.xml" />
+
+
+	<!-- essential CCM post build tasks: load database etc.                     	-->
+	<import file="${tools.script.dir}/build-ccm.xml" />
+
+
+	<!-- prepare the test runtime environment              .                     	-->
+	<import file="${tools.script.dir}/build-runtime.xml" />
+
+
+	<if>
+	  <bool>
+		<available file="build-projects.xml"/>
+	  </bool>
+			<!-- is generated by target configure in build-configure and 
+				 contains all the task to do the real work               -->
+			<import file="build-projects.xml" />
+		<else>
+			<import file="${tools.script.dir}/build-projects-dummy.xml" />
+			<echo>
+			You may not have been executed the preparational steps:
+			--  configure (to create the compile/build/deploy/etc scripts
+			</echo>
+		</else>
+	</if>
+
+	<path id="tools.classpath">
+		<fileset dir="${tools.lib.dir}" includes="*.jar" />
+	</path>
+
+</project>