Send Me Your Favorite Ant Tasks
Friday 6 June 2008 - Filed under Code
I setup a new page on my Ant wiki for additional tasks. I’ve got several listed that I frequently use but I’m sure there are more… :) So leave a comment with your favorite Ant tasks and I’ll add them!
2008-06-06 » Jim Priest
6 June 2008 @ 11:13 am
Jim,
Great resource, feel free to pull any of these for your page:
http://www.phillnacelli.net/blog/index.cfm/ANT
ANT is a great tool that most folks should be aware of, if you are not using it you are doing yourself a huge diservice.
Cheers..
6 June 2008 @ 12:22 pm
I’m partial to SSH/SCP (using jsch) and almost everything that’s bundled with AntelopeTasks. Use both extensively.
6 June 2008 @ 12:58 pm
@Phill – I think I’ve got all those blog entries already linked from my main Ant page :)
@Rob – I’ll add jsch and check out AntelopeTasks!
6 June 2008 @ 3:53 pm
Jim,
I was going to recommend Ant-Contrib but then realized that it was already on the list. One task that I would probably add will be task for running Selenium Test Suites.
7 August 2008 @ 6:20 pm
Jim (or Qasim) -
What’s the trick to getting ant-contrib installed? b5 is the latest version and it seems to only come with source. I try to build and get all kinds of errors using the 1.6 & 1.5 JDKs. Trying 1.4.2 now, but I’m now putting in more work that I expected/wanted to put in.
I’d really like to use that trycatch task.
Thanks.
7 August 2008 @ 7:14 pm
I dug around for this too – hence the note on the tasks page (http://www.thecrumb.com/wiki/ant/tasks)
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project.....p_id=36177 (Grab: ant-contrib-1.0b3-bin.zip)
7 August 2008 @ 7:20 pm
Aha. Therein lies the problem. Only b5 is available now and there’s no binary release for it. The source comes with its own ant script to do the build, but I clearly don’t have the right JDK installed. I’ll update here if I find one that works.
7 August 2008 @ 7:35 pm
@Rob – try this link:
http://downloads.sourceforge.n.....g_mirror=0
7 August 2008 @ 7:35 pm
I’ve seen the error of my ways. Your link takes me to a page with several links, including a big, bright “Download” button. Click that and all you see is downloads for cpptasks, so that’s what I pulled thinking that the name was odd, but doing it anyway.
If you click on the ant-contrib link instead of the tempting green button, you get more options, including the binary zip file.
Thanks.