I've searched high and low and I've been unable to find any
discussions/examples of how to generate a patternSet, or to do anything
that seems like somthing I am wanting to do.  I'm not sure if what is
the best course of action.

My goal is to have a single generic build.xml that can build many
modules (projects).  So, instead of my build being based on a directory
hierarchy, I need to derive a directory (package) list, given a module
or subsystem name.  I have java code that that will give me the list of
packages, given a module or subsystem name.

I know there are a number of paths I could pursue to solve this
problem.  I could probably generate module build files on the fly, and
use Ant calls to call into the right project definition after it is
generated.  I could possibly generate files that contain PatternSet
inlcudes, although that seems klunkier.  I started down the path of
creating a type that extends PatternSet, after I found the ClassFileSet
type that extends FileSet, but I soon got stuck when I couldn't
determine which method would provide my hook into the processing flow.
I can't find any documentation on extending types, and searching the
source code did not yield an answer.

If any has suggestions on the best course to pursue, or can point me to
some examples of anything similar, or can point me to documentation on
extending types, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks, Mike


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