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Article:		Writing Ant Tasks
Subject:		using classpath vs jar
Date:		2004-07-21 20:07:48
From:		hapybrian
Response to: Feedback
Using a class file seems to work just fine for me. Using the "Add.class" example you use, simply make sure your classpath contains the directory where Add.class lives. Before running ant, I set my class path to "blahblah;newtasks" (under windoze). newtasks is a subdirectory of my current directory. newtasks contains Add.class (which is in the newtasks package). Similarly, you can add the classpath to your taskdef line <taskdef name="adder" classname="newtasks.Add" classpath="newtasks"/> This was done using ant 1.5, and jdk 1.4 Brian

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• using classpath vs jar
  2004-11-23 21:22:00  Xapp [View]
  
  
  <project name="Add" default="dist" basedir=".">
  <description>
  The simple ant file to build and test Add.
  </description>
  <!-- set global properties for this build -->
  <property name="src" location="src"/>
  <property name="build" location="build"/>
  <property name="dist" location="dist"/>
  <property environment="env"/>
  
  <target name="init">
  <tstamp/>
  <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
  </target>
  
  <target name="compile" depends="init"
  description="compile the source " >
  <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}" classpath="${env.ANT_HOME}/lib/ant.jar"/>
  </target>
  
  <target name="dist" depends="compile"
  description="generate the distribution" >
  <mkdir dir="${dist}/lib"/>
  
  <!-- Put everything in ${build} into the MyProject-${DSTAMP}.jar file -->
  <jar jarfile="${dist}/lib/MyProject-${DSTAMP}.jar" basedir="${build}"/>
  </target>
  
  <target name="test" depends="compile">
  <taskdef name="Add" classname="net.rsherk.ant.Add" classpath="${build}"/>
  <Add op1="1" op2="2"/>
  </target>
  <target name="clean"
  description="clean up" >
  <!-- Delete the ${build} and ${dist} directory trees -->
  <delete dir="${build}"/>
  <delete dir="${dist}"/>
  </target>
  </project>