Re: [jug-discussion] ANT question

[Drew Davidson]

Erik Hatcher wrote:

On Jan 7, 2004, at 7:05 PM, Thomas Hicks wrote:

Then, in the <java> task I said:
        <target name="echotask">
        <java ....>
           <arg line="${1} ${2} -previousflag" />
           <arg value="${previousarg} />
        </java>


One more thing... if you are doing <java> a lot, you may want to 
consider turning your class into an Ant task.  It's easier than you 
think, just have a 'public void execute()' method on it, <taskdef> it, 
and voila.  You can implement setters like 'public void 
setQuiet(boolean quiet)' and use quiet="true" on the task.  This is 
the cleanest, most Ant Way of doing this... DREW!  :)

I have written Ant tasks before, and they appear to work ok.  I think 
that we discusses the <copypath> task that I wrote and I was puzzled to 
find that the task didn't exist already.  The answer you gave me was 
very insightful about the Ant community - most people don't use ant to 
write systems, they write build files.

- Drew

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