Ant

The ant command is used to execute the Apache Ant build tool. It provides a convenient way to execute ant, and applies an ant post-processor to the command output by default. The ant command is based on the executable command, thus all attributes and child elements valid for the executable command are also valid for the ant command.

Finding the ant binary

The ant command will try the following values for the ant binary:

• if a binary is specified explictly using the exe attribute, that value will be used
• if a property named "ant.bin" exists, the value of that property will be used
• otherwise, the value "ant" will be used, or "ant.bat" on Windows systems (and thus ant must be found in the PATH of the pulse™ process)

The "ant.bin" property may be made available by an automatically-discovered (or manually created) ant resource.

Attributes

See also executable.

Child Elements

See executable.

Examples

Execute the "build" target from the default build file:

<ant name="build" targets="build"/>

Execute targets "build" and "test" from a custom build file:

<ant name="test" build-file="mybuild.xml" targets="build test"/>