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Send Me Your Favorite Ant Tasks

Posted June 6th, 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!

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9 Responses so far

  1. 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..

  2. I’m partial to SSH/SCP (using jsch) and almost everything that’s bundled with AntelopeTasks. Use both extensively.

  3. Jim says:

    @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!

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Jim says:

    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. 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.

  8. 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.

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