Chapter 18. Extending Ant further
| 18.1 | Scripting within Ant |
| 18.2 | Conditions |
| 18.3 | Writing a custom resource |
| 18.4 | Selectors |
| 18.5 | Developing a custom mapper |
| 18.6 | Implementing a custom filter |
| 18.7 | Handling Ant’s input and output |
| 18.8 | Embedding Ant |
| 18.9 | Summary |
We’ve just been extending Ant with custom tasks in Java. Is that all that can be done to adapt it to a project? No, not at all! Some of the other ways that Ant can be extended are by
- Writing tasks using scripting languages with the <script> and <scriptdef> tasks
- Writing new conditions for use in <condition>, <fail>, and other tasks
- Writing custom resources, filters, selectors, and mappers
- Monitoring the build process with custom build listeners and loggers
- Embedding Ant inside ...
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