Ant - Development Center

Development

How to develop a Task for Ant?

Code and documentation

• Code: apache:ant
• API Documentation is not online provided but in the distribution. Otherwise; http://docs.groovy-lang.org/docs/ant/api/

Third Party Integration

• Using Ant outside of Ant
• An ArgumentProcessor is a parser of command line argument which is then call before and after the build file is being parsed. Third party libraries may then be able to have custom argument line argument which modify Ant behaviour.
• event and listeners capability could be used, for example, to connect Ant to a GUI or to integrate Ant with an IDE.

Cross Platform (Windows/Unix)

• Cross Platform Integration