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To <exec> a shell command on Windows, you must execute the command shell followed by the command you want. For example: <exec executable="cmd"> <arg line="/c dir"/> </exec...more

Read the docs of the FTP task at http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/OptionalTasks/ftp.html. There is an additional JAR that is required for that task.more

Check out Ant's optional <propertyfile> task. It has numeric incrementing capability (as well as string append and date calculation capabilities). By auto-incrementing a number from a pro...more

Project Properties Tools User1 Command: ant -emacs Check capture output, Output to process buffer, clear process buffer, save all files Then use tools, configuration, key bindings to tie projec...more

Check out these projects: Alexandria - GUMP is the sub-project of Alexandria that is used to run Jakarta nightly builds. CruiseControl AntHill more

Using: <property environment="env"/> provides all environment variables as Ant properties prefixed by "env.". For example, CLASSPATH would be accessible in Ant as ${env.CLASSPATH}. more

Antidote is a subproject at Jakarta that does this. Here's the README: README You'll probably have to CVS to Jakarta to grab it. I'm not sure if there are binaries available anywhere. Also,...more

Ant is one of the Jakarta projects at Apache. You can get it from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html.

Ant's <jar> task (Ant 1.4.1 and earlier, see comments for update) does not support the creation of INDEX.LIST, but it can be done by executing the jar -i command from Ant after creating the ...more

Use 'ant -Dname=val'. Refer to it within the build file as ${name}.

For example: <path id="tools.class.path"> <pathelement location="${xerces.jar}"/> <pathelement location="${testlet.jar}"/> <pathelement location="${junit.jar}"...more