Ant Tasks

org.eclipse.ant.core.antTasks

Allows plug-ins to define arbitrary Ant tasks for use by the Ant infrastructure. The standard Ant infrastructure allows for the addition of arbitrary tasks. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that the Ant Core plug-in would have the classes required by these tasks on its classpath (or that of any of its prerequisites). To address this, clients should define an extension which plugs into this extension-point and maps a task name onto a class. The Ant plug-in can then request that the declaring plug-in load the specified class.

<!ELEMENT extension (antTask*)>

<!ATTLIST extension

point CDATA #REQUIRED

id    CDATA #IMPLIED

name  CDATA #IMPLIED>


<!ELEMENT antTask EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST antTask

name           CDATA #REQUIRED

class          CDATA #REQUIRED

library        CDATA #REQUIRED

headless       (true | false)

eclipseRuntime (true | false) >


The following is an example of an Ant tasks extension point:

   

<extension point=

"org.eclipse.ant.core.antTasks"

>

<antTask name=

"coolTask"

class=

"com.example.CoolTask"

library=

"lib/antSupport.jar"

/>

</extension>

The platform itself supplies a number of tasks including eclipse.incrementalBuild and eclipse.refreshLocal.