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+<title>PropertyHelper Task</title>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+
+<h2>PropertyHelper</h2>
+<h3>Description</h3>
+<p>This task is provided for the purpose of allowing the user to
+<b>(a)</b> install a different PropertyHelper at runtime, or
+<b>(b)</b> (hopefully more often) install one or more PropertyHelper Delegates into the
+PropertyHelper active on the current Project. This is somewhat advanced Apache Ant usage and
+assumes a working familiarity with the modern Ant APIs. See the description of Ant's
+<a href="../properties.html#propertyHelper">Property Helper</a> for more information.
+<b>Since Ant 1.8.0</b></p>
+
+<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
+
+<h4>PropertyHelper</h4>
+You may specify exactly one configured <code>org.apache.tools.ant.PropertyHelper</code> instance.
+
+<h4>PropertyHelper.Delegate</h4>
+You may specify, either in conjunction with a new <code>PropertyHelper</code> or not, one or
+more configured implementations of the <code>org.apache.tools.ant.PropertyHelper.Delegate</code>
+interface. A deeper understanding of the API is required here, however, as <code>Delegate</code>
+is a marker interface only: the nested arguments must implement a <code>Delegate</code>
+subinterface in order to do anything meaningful.
+
+<h4>delegate</h4>
+<p>A generic &lt;delegate&gt; element which can use project references
+is also provided:</p>
+
+<h5>Parameters</h5>
+<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
+ <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
+ <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">refid</td>
+ <td valign="top">The <i>id</i> of a <code>PropertyHelper.Delegate</code> to install.</td>
+ <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<h3>Examples</h3>
+
+<p>Install a completely different PropertyHelper implementation
+ (assuming <code>MyPropertyHelper extends PropertyHelper</code>):</p>
+
+<pre>
+&lt;componentdef classname="org.example.MyPropertyHelper"
+ name="mypropertyhelper"/>
+&lt;propertyhelper>
+ &lt;mypropertyhelper/>
+&lt;/propertyhelper>
+</pre>
+
+<p>Add a new PropertyEvaluator delegate
+ (assuming <code>MyPropertyEvaluator implements
+ PropertyHelper.PropertyEvaluator</code>). Note that PropertyHelper
+ uses the configured delegates in LIFO order. I.e. the delegate
+ added by this task will be consulted before any previously defined
+ delegate and in particular before the built-in ones.</p>
+
+<pre>
+&lt;componentdef classname="org.example.MyPropertyEvaluator"
+ name="mypropertyevaluator"/>
+&lt;propertyhelper>
+ &lt;mypropertyevaluator/>
+&lt;/propertyhelper>
+</pre>
+
+<p>Add a new PropertyEvaluator delegate using the refid syntax:</p>
+
+<pre>
+&lt;typedef classname="org.example.MyPropertyEvaluator"
+ name="mypropertyevaluator"/>
+&lt;mypropertyevaluator id="evaluator"/>
+&lt;propertyhelper>
+ &lt;delegate refid="evaluator"/>
+&lt;/propertyhelper>
+</pre>
+
+</body>
+</html>
+