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+<project name="tutorial" default="dist" basedir=".">
+
+  <description>Thrift actionscript 3.0 tutorial.</description>
+
+  <property name="gen" location="gen-as3" />
+  <property name="src" location="src" />
+  <property name="thrift.src" location="../../lib/as3/src/" />
+  <property name="dist" location="dist" />
+
+  <property name="final.name" value="as3-tutorial" />
+  <property name="swf.name" value="${dist}/${final.name}.swf" />
+
+  <target name="flex.check" unless="FLEX_HOME">
+    <fail message='You must set the FLEX_HOME property pointing to your flex SDK, eg. ant -DFLEX_HOME="/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3/sdks/3.2.0"'/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="flex.init" depends="flex.check" unless="flex.finished">
+    <taskdef resource="flexTasks.tasks" classpath="${FLEX_HOME}/ant/lib/flexTasks.jar" />
+    <property name="flex.finished" value="true"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="init">
+    <tstamp />
+    <mkdir dir="${dist}"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="dist" depends="generate, flex.init, init">
+    <mxmlc output="${swf.name}" file="${src}/CalculatorUI.as">
+      <source-path path-element="${gen}" />
+      <source-path path-element="${src}" />
+      <source-path path-element="${thrift.src}" />
+    </mxmlc>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="generate">
+    <!-- Generate the thrift gen-java source -->
+    <exec executable="../../compiler/cpp/thrift" failonerror="true">
+      <arg line="--gen as3 ../shared.thrift"/>
+    </exec>
+    <exec executable="../../compiler/cpp/thrift" failonerror="true">
+      <arg line="--gen as3 ../tutorial.thrift"/>
+    </exec>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="clean">
+    <delete dir="${gen}"/>
+    <delete dir="${dist}" />
+  </target>
+
+</project>