Ant Tasks

Identifier: org.eclipse.ant.core.antTasks

Description: 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.

Configuration Markup:

   <!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 CDATA #IMPLIED
   >

Examples: 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"/>
   </extension> 

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

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