ANT

Ant Tasks

• Overview1m
• Compile Tasks
• Archive Tasks
• File Tasks6m 
• JavaDoc Tasks
• Property Tasks
• Version Control Tasks
• JUnit Tasks
• Mail Tasks
• Remote Tasks
• XML Tasks

Ant Elements

• PatternSet
• DirSet
• FileSet
• FileList
• FileMapper
• identity  -  Target filename identical to source filename.
• flatten  - Directory structure is flattened.
• merge  -  Target filename is the same for all source files.
• glob    -  Glob matching used on files.
• regexp   -  Regular expression matching used on files.
• package   -  Based on Java package of source files.
• FilterReader 
• java.io.filterreader
• FilterReader
• files
• directories

           stripjavacomments   - Removes java comments from .java files.

           striplinecomments   -  Removes user-defined comment lines.

           striplinebreaks         -  Removes end-of-line characters.

           classconstants         -   Outputs name/value pairs of constants in class files.  Requires the 

                                               BCEL   library in the classpath.

                   http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-bcel/download_bcel.cgi

         tabstospaces            -   Replaces tabs with a given number of spaces.

         headfilter                -    Returns only the top given number of lines.

         tailfilter                   -   Returns only the bottom given number of lines.

         linecontains            -   Copies only lines containing a given string.

         linecontainsregexp -    Copies only lines matching a regexp.

         prefixlines  - Adds a string to the beginning of every line.

         expandproperties    - Expands Ant properties.

• FilterChain
• Selectors
• date
• present
• size
• contains
• containsregexp
• depend
• depth
• different
• type
• modified
• signedselector
• scriptselector
• readable
• writable
• Selector Containers --
• and
• or
• not
• none
• ClassFileSet
• Paths
• Listeners 
• Build Started
• Build finished
• Target Started
• Target finished
• Task started
• Task finished
• Message logged
• Loggers
• DefaultLogger
• NoBannerLogger
• TimestampedLogger
• BigProjectLogger
• SimpleBigProjectLogger
• ProfileLogger
• AnsiColorLogger
• MailLogger
• Log4jListener
• XmlLogger

Full Example  using  ANT 

• End to End Build

• Init  -  Initialize  properties.
• Record     -  log the entire process
• prepare     -  create build and report directories
• Fetch the source code
• Compile the code
• Test with Junit
• Build a WAR file
• Deploy  - FTP to the remote server
• SendMail - zip up reports and email.

• Building  a Skeleton
• Defining Properties
• The Init Task
• Starting and Stopping Logging.
• The Prepare Task
• Fetching the Source Code.
• Compiling
• Testing With Junit
• Building the WAR File
• Deploying
• Sending Email Reports
• Running the Example

Extending ANT

• Apache Ant Core 
• Custom Tasks
• Custom Event Listeners (  Build STarted/Ended Target Started/Ended - Task Started/ended  -  Message Logged)
• Alter Tasks

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