Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Jim

Send Me Your Favorite Ant Tasks

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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 to “Send Me Your Favorite Ant Tasks”

phill.nacelli on June 6th, 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..

Rob Wilkerson on June 6th, 2008 12:22 pm:

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

Jim on June 6th, 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!

Qasim Rasheed on June 6th, 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.

Rob Wilkerson on August 7th, 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.

Jim on August 7th, 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)

Rob Wilkerson on August 7th, 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.

Jim on August 7th, 2008 7:35 pm:

@Rob - try this link:

http://downloads.sourceforge.n.....g_mirror=0

Rob Wilkerson on August 7th, 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.