June 2004
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
7h 38m
English
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7.10. Using Ant as an External Tool
Problem
You want to run Ant as an external tool.
Solution
Select Run→ External Tools→ External Tools, click Program, click New, and enter the required information to install Ant as an external tool. Then click Run to execute the build file.
Discussion
Eclipse can launch and run external tools as easily as internal ones.
You can run Ant as an external tool if you want to: select
Run→ External Tools→ External Tools, click Program,
click New, and enter the name you want to give to the external
version of Ant. As for the Location field, click Browse File System,
and find the correct file for your operating system to run Ant (for
example, that’s ant.bat in the
Ant bin folder in Windows). In the Working
Directory field enter the directory of your build file, and enter any
arguments you want to pass to Ant in the Arguments directory. Then
click Run to execute your build file and perform the build.
Tip
External tools now can be run in the background, by a separate thread. Just check the “Run tool in background” checkbox in the Run→ External Tools→ External Tools dialog. Doing so means that you can let an Ant build run or launch an external program and still continue to work in Eclipse.
See Also
Recipe 7.5 on using your own version of Ant.
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