Determines which classfiles are out-of-date with respect to their source, removing the classfiles of any other classes that depend on the out-of-date classes, forcing the re-compile of the removed classfiles.

Typically used in conjunction with the Javac task.

JspC

Runs the JSP compiler. It can be used to precompile

JSP pages for fast initial invocation of JSP pages, deployment on a server without the full JDK installed, or simply to syntax-check the pages without deploying them. The Javac task can be used to compile the generated Java source. (For Weblogic JSP compiles, see the Wljspc task.)

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Compile Tasks

Documentation, Logging and Testing Tasks

Documentation, Logging and Testing Tasks

Documentation Tasks

Javadoc

Generates code documentation using the javadoc tool.

Logging Tasks

Record

Runs a listener that records the logging output of the build-process events to a file. Several recorders can exist at the same time. Each recorder is associated with a file.

Testing Tasks

Junit

Runs tests from the Junit testing framework. This task has been tested with JUnit 3.0 up to JUnit 3.7 ; it won’t work with versions prior to JUnit 3.0.

JunitReport

Merges the individual XML files generated by the Junit task and applies a stylesheet on the resulting merged document to provide a browsable report of the

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Execution Tasks

Ant

Runs Ant on a supplied buildfile,

AntCall

Runs another target within the same buildfile,

Apply/ExecOn ; Exec

Executes a system command.

Java

Executes a Java class within the running (Ant) VM, or in another VM if the fork attribute is specified.

Parallel

A container task that can contain other Ant tasks. Each nested task specified within the <parallel> tag will be executed in its own thread.

Sequential

A container task that can contain other Ant tasks. The nested tasks are simply executed in sequence. Its primary use is to support the sequential execution of a subset of tasks within the <parallel> tag.

Sleep

A task for suspending execution for a specified period of time. Useful when a build or deployment process requires an interval between tasks.

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Waitfor

Blocks execution until a set of specified conditions

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Remote Tasks

Remote Tasks

FTP

Implements a basic FTP client that can send, receive, list, and delete files, and create directories.

Scp

Copy files to or from a remote server using SSH.

setproxy

Sets Java’s web proxy properties, so that tasks and code run in the same JVM can have through-the-firewall access to remote web sites.

Sshexec

Execute a command on a remote server using SSH.

Telnet

Task to automate a remote telnet session. This task uses nested <read> and <write> tags to indicate strings to wait for and specify text to send.

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Misc tasks

Property Tasks

Misc tasks

Mail

A task to send SMTP email

Echo

Echoes text to System.out or to a file.

Fail

Exits the current build by throwing a BuildException, optionally printing additional information.

Input

Allows user interaction during the build process by displaying a message and reading a line of input from the console.

Sound

Plays a sound file at the end of the build, according to whether the build failed or succeeded.

Sql

Executes a series of SQL statements via JDBC to a database. Statements can either be read in from a text file using the src attribute, or from between the enclosing SQL tags.