The IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) toolkit has long been used for application development and also for building BAR files to be deployed to integration nodes, with the IDE’s capabilities making it relatively simple to work with applications and libraries contained in multiple source repositories. The toolkit is not easily automated as such, however, and it may appear that the source layout must be reorganized before automation is possible: the command-line build tools lack some of the toolkit's project-handling capabilities and therefore present some challenges when working with complex source environments. Despite the challenges, this article shows an alternative to reorganization, with relatively little work being needed to allow for automation to proceed.
Quick summary: The toolkit presents a virtual filesystem based on projects, and the command-line equivalent is to fix up the extracted source during a build; a working example is shown below.