Apache Ant - Project

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A project is the first node of a buildfile

Syntax

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<project name="Name of the project" default="TheDefaultTarget" basedir="..">
      <description>
          This is the description of the buildfile
      </description>
...
</project>

A project has:

• three attributes:
  • name, the name of the project
  • default, the default target to use when no target is supplied.
  • basedir, the base directory from which all path calculations are done.
• and a description that can be added in a description child element.

Built-in property

Built In Properties:

• ${ant.project.name} : The project name
• ${ant.project.default-target}: The default target
• ${ant.project.invoked-targets}. A comma-separated list of the targets that have been specified on the command line (the IDE, an <ant> task …) when invoking the current project. This property is set when the first target is executed. So you can't use it in the implicit target (directly under the <project> tag). |

Documentation / Reference

• Projects