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<h2>Overview of Apache Ant Tasks</h2>
<p>Given the large number of tasks available with Ant, it may be
difficult to get an overall view of what each task can do. The following
tables provide a short description of each task and a link to the complete
documentation.</p>
<a href="#archive">Archive Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#audit">Audit/Coverage Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#compile">Compile Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#deploy">Deployment Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#doc">Documentation Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#ejb">EJB Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#exec">Execution Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#file">File Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#extensions">Java2 Extensions Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#log">Logging Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#mail">Mail Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#misc">Miscellaneous Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#preproc">Pre-process Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#prop">Property Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#remote">Remote Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#scm">SCM Tasks</a><br>
<a href="#testing">Testing Tasks</a><br>
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<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
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<a name="archive">Archive Tasks</a>
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<th nowrap>Task Name</th>
<th nowrap>Description</th>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/unpack.html">BUnzip2</a></td>
<td><p>Expands a file packed using GZip or BZip2.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/pack.html">BZip2</a></td>
<td><p>Packs a file using the GZip or BZip2 algorithm. This task
does not do any dependency checking; the output file is always
generated</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/cab.html">Cab</a></td>
<td><p>Creates Microsoft CAB archive files. It is invoked
similar to the <a href="Tasks/jar.html">Jar</a> or
<a href="Tasks/zip.html">Zip</a> tasks. This task will work on
Windows using the external <i>cabarc</i> tool (provided by Microsoft),
which must be located in your executable path.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/ear.html">Ear</a></td>
<td><p>An extension of the <a href="Tasks/jar.html">Jar</a> task with
special treatment for files that should end up in an
Enterprise Application archive.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/gunzip.html">GUnzip</a></td>
<td><p>Expands a GZip file.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/gzip.html">GZip</a></td>
<td><p>GZips a set of files.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/jar.html">Jar</a></td>
<td><p>Jars a set of files.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/jlink.html">Jlink</a></td>
<td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the <code>zipfileset</code>
and <code>zipgroupfileset</code> attributes of the
<a href="Tasks/jar.html">Jar</a> or
<a href="Tasks/zip.html">Zip</a> tasks instead.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/manifest.html">Manifest</a></td>
<td><p>Creates a manifest file.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/rpm.html">Rpm</a></td>
<td><p>Invokes the <i>rpm</i> executable to build a Linux installation
file. This task currently only works on Linux or other Unix platforms
with RPM support.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/signjar.html">SignJar</a></td>
<td><p>Signs a jar or zip file with the <i>javasign</i>
command-line tool.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/tar.html">Tar</a></td>
<td><p>Creates a tar archive.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/unzip.html">Unjar</a></td>
<td><p>Unzips a jarfile.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/untar.html">Untar</a></td>
<td><p>Untars a tarfile.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/unzip.html">Unwar</a></td>
<td><p>Unzips a warfile.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/unzip.html">Unzip</a></td>
<td><p>Unzips a zipfile.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/war.html">War</a></td>
<td><p>An extension of the <a href="Tasks/jar.html">Jar</a> task
with special treatment for files that should end up in the
<code>WEB-INF/lib</code>, <code>WEB-INF/classes</code>, or
<code>WEB-INF</code> directories of the Web Application Archive.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/zip.html">Zip</a></td>
<td><p>Creates a zipfile.</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p></p>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<th align="left">
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<a name="audit">Audit/Coverage Tasks</a>
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<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<tr valign="top">
<th nowrap>Task Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/jdepend.html">JDepend</a></td>
<td><p>Invokes the <a href="http://www.clarkware.com/software/JDepend.html">
JDepend</a> parser. This parser "traverses a set of Java source-file
directories and generates design-quality metrics for each Java
package".</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p></p>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<th align="left">
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<a name="compile">Compile Tasks</a>
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<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
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<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<tr valign="top">
<th nowrap>Task Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/depend.html">Depend</a></td>
<td><p>Determines which classfiles are out-of-date with respect to their
source, removing the classfiles of any other classes that depend on the
out-of-date classes, forcing the re-compile of the removed classfiles.
Typically used in conjunction with the
<a href="Tasks/javac.html">Javac</a> task.</p></td>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/javac.html">Javac</a></td>
<td><p>Compiles the specified source file(s) within the running
(Ant) VM, or in another VM if the <code>fork</code> attribute is
specified.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/apt.html">Apt</a></td>
<td><p>Runs the annotation processor tool (apt), and then optionally compiles
the original code, and any generated source code.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/jspc.html">JspC</a></td>
<td><p>Runs the JSP compiler. It can be used to precompile JSP pages
for fast initial invocation of JSP pages, deployment on a server without
the full JDK installed, or simply to syntax-check the pages without
deploying them. The <a href="Tasks/javac.html">Javac</a> task
can be used to compile the generated Java source.
(For Weblogic JSP compiles,
see the <a href="Tasks/wljspc.html">Wljspc</a> task.)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/netrexxc.html">NetRexxC</a></td>
<td><p>Compiles a
<a href="http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx" target="_top">NetRexx</a>
source tree within the running (Ant) VM.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/rmic.html">Rmic</a></td>
<td><p>Runs the <i>rmic</i> compiler on the specified file(s).</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/wljspc.html">Wljspc</a></td>
<td><p>Compiles JSP pages using Weblogic's JSP compiler,
<i>weblogic.jspc</i>. (For non-Weblogic JSP compiles, see the
<a href="Tasks/jspc.html">JspC</a> task.</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p></p>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<th align="left">
<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="deploy">Deployment Tasks</a>
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<th nowrap>Task Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/serverdeploy.html">ServerDeploy</a></td>
<td><p>Task to run a "hot" deployment tool for vendor-specific
J2EE server.
</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p></p>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<th align="left">
<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="doc">Documentation Tasks</a>
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<th nowrap>Task Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/javadoc.html">Javadoc/<i>Javadoc2</i></a></td>
<td><p>Generates code documentation using the <i>javadoc</i> tool.
The Javadoc2 task is deprecated; use the Javadoc task instead.</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p></p>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<th align="left">
<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="ejb">EJB Tasks</a>
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<th nowrap>Task Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/ejb.html">EJB Tasks</a></td>
<td><p>(See the documentation describing the EJB tasks.)</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p></p>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<th align="left">
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<th nowrap>Task Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/ant.html">Ant</a></td>
<td><p>Runs Ant on a supplied buildfile, optionally
passing properties (with possibly new values).
This task can be used to build sub-projects.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/antcall.html">AntCall</a></td>
<td><p>Runs another target within the same buildfile, optionally
passing properties (with possibly new values).</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/apply.html">Apply/<i>ExecOn</i></a></td>
<td><p>Executes a system command. When the <code>os</code> attribute is
specified, the command is only executed when Ant is run on one
of the specified operating systems.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/dependset.html">Dependset</a></td>
<td><p>This task compares a set of source files with a set of target
files. If any of the source files is newer than any of
the target files, all the target files are removed. </p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/exec.html">Exec</a></td>
<td><p>Executes a system command. When the <code>os</code> attribute
is specified, the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of
the specified operating systems.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/java.html">Java</a></td>
<td><p>Executes a Java class within the running (Ant) VM, or in
another VM if the <code>fork</code> attribute is specified.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/parallel.html">Parallel</a></td>
<td><p>A container task that can contain other Ant tasks.
Each nested task specified within the <code><parallel></code>
tag will be executed in its own thread.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/sequential.html">Sequential</a></td>
<td><p>A container task that can contain other Ant tasks.
The nested tasks are simply executed in sequence. Its primary use is
to support the sequential execution of a subset of tasks within
the <code><parallel></code> tag.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/sleep.html">Sleep</a></td>
<td><p> A task for suspending execution for a specified period of time.
Useful when a build or deployment process requires an interval between
tasks.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/subant.html">Subant</a></td>
<td><p> Calls a given target for all defined sub-builds. This is an extension of ant for bulk project execution.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/waitfor.html">Waitfor</a></td>
<td><p>Blocks execution until a set of specified conditions become true.
This task is intended to be used with the
<a href="Tasks/parallel.html">Parallel</a> task to synchronize
a set of processes.</p></td>
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<th nowrap>Task Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/attrib.html">Attrib</a></td>
<td><p>Changes the permissions and/or attributes of a file or all
files inside the specified directories. Currently, it has effect
only under Windows.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/checksum.html">Checksum</a></td>
<td><p>Generates a checksum for a file or set of files. This task can
also be used to perform checksum verifications.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/chgrp.html">Chgrp</a></td>
<td><p>Changes the group ownership of a file or all files inside
the specified directories. Currently, it has effect only under
Unix.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/chmod.html">Chmod</a></td>
<td><p>Changes the permissions of a file or all files inside the
specified directories. Currently, it has effect only under Unix.
The permissions are also UNIX style, like the arguments for the
<i>chmod</i> command.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/chown.html">Chown</a></td>
<td><p>Changes the owner of a file or all files inside the
specified directories. Currently, it has effect only under
Unix.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/concat.html">Concat</a></td>
<td><p>Concatenates multiple files into a single one or to Ant's
logging system.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/copy.html">Copy</a></td>
<td><p>Copies a file or Fileset to a new file or directory.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/copydir.html"><i>Copydir</i></a></td>
<td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the
<a href="Tasks/copy.html">Copy</a> task instead.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/copyfile.html"><i>Copyfile</i></a></td>
<td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the
<a href="Tasks/copy.html">Copy</a> task instead.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/delete.html">Delete</a></td>
<td><p>Deletes either a single file, all files and sub-directories
in a specified directory, or a set of files specified by one or more
<a href="Types/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/deltree.html"><i>Deltree</i></a></td>
<td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the
<a href="Tasks/delete.html">Delete</a> task instead.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/filter.html">Filter</a></td>
<td><p>Sets a token filter for this project, or reads multiple token
filters from a specified file and sets these as filters. Token filters
are used by all tasks that perform file-copying operations.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/fixcrlf.html">FixCRLF</a></td>
<td><p>Modifies a file to add or remove tabs, carriage returns, linefeeds,
and EOF characters.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/get.html">Get</a></td>
<td><p>Gets a file from a URL.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/mkdir.html">Mkdir</a></td>
<td><p>Creates a directory. Non-existent parent directories are created,
when necessary.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/move.html">Move</a></td>
<td><p>Moves a file to a new file or directory, or a set(s) of file(s) to
a new directory.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/patch.html">Patch</a></td>
<td><p>Applies a "diff" file to originals.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/rename.html"><i>Rename</i></a></td>
<td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the <a href="Tasks/move.html">Move</a>
task instead.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/renameextensions.html">
<i>RenameExtensions</i></a></td>
<td><p><i>Deprecated</i>. Use the <a href="Tasks/move.html">Move</a>
task with a <a href="Types/mapper.html#glob-mapper">glob mapper</a>
instead.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/replace.html">Replace</a></td>
<td><p>Replace is a directory-based task for replacing the occurrence
of a given string with another string in selected file.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/replaceregexp.html">
ReplaceRegExp</a></td>
<td><p>Directory-based task for replacing the occurrence of a given
regular expression with a substitution pattern in a file or set of
files.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/sync.html">Sync</a></td>
<td><p>Synchronize two directory trees.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/tempfile.html">Tempfile</a></td>
<td><p>Generates a name for a new temporary file and sets the specified
property to that name.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/touch.html">Touch</a></td>
<td><p>Changes the modification time of a file and possibly creates it at
the same time.</p></td>
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<th>Description</th>
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<a href="Tasks/jarlib-available.html">Jarlib-available</a></td>
<td><p>Check whether an extension is present in a FileSet or an
ExtensionSet. If the extension is present, the specified property is
set.</p>
</td>
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<td nowrap>
<a href="Tasks/jarlib-display.html">Jarlib-display</a></td>
<td><p>Display the "Optional Package" and
"Package Specification" information contained within the
specified jars.</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap>
<a href="Tasks/jarlib-manifest.html">Jarlib-manifest</a></td>
<td><p>Task to generate a manifest that declares all the dependencies
in manifest. The dependencies are determined by looking in the
specified path and searching for Extension/"Optional Package"
specifications in the manifests of the jars.</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap>
<a href="Tasks/jarlib-resolve.html">Jarlib-resolve</a></td>
<td><p>Try to locate a jar to satisfy an extension, and place the
location of the jar into the specified property.</p>
</td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/recorder.html">Record</a></td>
<td><p>Runs a listener that records the logging output of the
build-process events to a file. Several recorders can exist
at the same time. Each recorder is associated with a file.</p></td>
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<th>Description</th>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/mail.html">Mail</a></td>
<td><p>A task to send SMTP email.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/mimemail.html">MimeMail</a></td>
<td><p><i>Deprecated</i>. Use the <a href="Tasks/mail.html">Mail</a>
task instead.</p></td>
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<th>Description</th>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/defaultexcludes.html">Defaultexcludes</a></td>
<td><p>Modify the list of default exclude patterns from within
your build file.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/echo.html">Echo</a></td>
<td><p>Echoes text to <code>System.out</code> or to a file.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/fail.html">Fail</a></td>
<td><p>Exits the current build by throwing a BuildException,
optionally printing additional information.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/genkey.html">GenKey</a></td>
<td><p>Generates a key in keystore.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/hostinfo.html">HostInfo</a></td>
<td><p>Sets properties related to the provided host, or to
the host the process is run on.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/input.html">Input</a></td>
<td><p>Allows user interaction during the build process by displaying a
message and reading a line of input from the console.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/script.html">Script</a></td>
<td><p>Executes a script in a
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/"
target="_top">Apache BSF</a>-supported language.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/sound.html">Sound</a></td>
<td><p>Plays a sound file at the end of the build, according to whether
the build failed or succeeded.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/splash.html">Splash</a></td>
<td><p>Displays a splash screen.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/sql.html">Sql</a></td>
<td><p>Executes a series of SQL statements via JDBC to a database.
Statements can either be read in from a text file using the
<code>src</code> attribute, or from between the enclosing SQL
tags.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/taskdef.html">Taskdef</a></td>
<td><p>Adds a task definition to the current project, such that this
new task can be used in the current project.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/tstamp.html">TStamp</a></td>
<td><p>Sets the <code>DSTAMP</code>, <code>TSTAMP</code>, and
<code>TODAY</code> properties in the current project, based on
the current date and time.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/typedef.html">Typedef</a></td>
<td><p>Adds a data-type definition to the current project, such that this
new type can be used in the current project.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/xmlvalidate.html">XmlValidate</a></td>
<td><p>Checks that XML files are valid (or only well-formed). This task
uses the XML parser that is currently used by Ant by default, but any SAX1/2
parser can be specified, if needed.</p></td>
</tr>
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<th nowrap>Task Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/antlr.html">ANTLR</a></td>
<td><p>Invokes the <a HREF="http://www.antlr.org/" target="_top">ANTLR</a>
Translator generator on a grammar file.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/antstructure.html">AntStructure</a></td>
<td><p>Generates a DTD for Ant buildfiles that contains information
about all tasks currently known to Ant.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/import.html">Import</a></td>
<td><p>Import another build file and potentially override targets
in it with targets of your own.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/include.html">Include</a></td>
<td><p>Include another build file.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/javacc.html">JavaCC</a></td>
<td><p>Invokes the
<a HREF="http://javacc.dev.java.net/" target="_top">
JavaCC</a> compiler-compiler on a grammar file.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/javah.html">Javah</a></td>
<td><p>Generates JNI headers from a Java class.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/jjdoc.html">JJDoc</a></td>
<td><p>Invokes the <a href="http://javacc.dev.java.net/">
JJDoc</a> documentation generator for the JavaCC compiler-compiler.
JJDoc takes a JavaCC parser specification and produces documentation
for the BNF grammar. It can operate in three modes, determined by
command line options. This task only invokes JJDoc if the grammar file
is newer than the generated BNF grammar documentation.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/jjtree.html">JJTree</a></td>
<td><p>Invokes the <a href="http://javacc.dev.java.net/">
JJTree</a> preprocessor for the JavaCC compiler-compiler. It inserts
parse-tree building actions at various places in the JavaCC source that
it generates. The output of JJTree is run through JavaCC to create the
parser. This task only invokes JJTree if the grammar file is newer than
the generated JavaCC file.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/macrodef.html">Macrodef</a></td>
<td><p>Define a new task as a macro built-up upon other tasks.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/native2ascii.html">
Native2Ascii</a></td>
<td><p>Converts files from native encodings to ASCII with escaped Unicode.
A common usage is to convert source files maintained in a native
operating system encoding to ASCII, prior to compilation.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/presetdef.html">Presetdef</a></td>
<td><p>Define a new task by instrumenting an existing task with
default values for attributes or child elements.</p>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/translate.html">Translate</a></td>
<td><p>Identifies keys in files, delimited by special tokens, and
translates them with values read from resource bundles.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/style.html">XSLT</a></td>
<td><p>Processes a set of documents via XSLT.</p></td>
</tr>
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<th>Description</th>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/available.html">Available</a></td>
<td><p>Sets a property if a specified file, directory, class in the
classpath, or JVM system resource is available at runtime.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/basename.html">Basename</a></td>
<td><p>Sets a property to the last element of a specified path.
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/buildnumber.html">BuildNumber</a></td>
<td><p>Task that can be used to track build numbers.
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/condition.html">Condition</a></td>
<td><p>Sets a property if a certain condition holds true; this is a
generalization of <a href="Tasks/available.html">Available</a> and
<a href="Tasks/uptodate.html">Uptodate</a>.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/dirname.html">Dirname</a></td>
<td><p>Sets a property to the value of the specified file up to,
but not including, the last path element.
</tr>
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<td nowrap>
<a href="Tasks/echoproperties.html">Echoproperties</a><br>
</td>
<td><p>Lists the current properties.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/loadfile.html">LoadFile</a></td>
<td><p>Loads a file into a property.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/loadproperties.html">LoadProperties</a></td>
<td><p>Load a file's contents as Ant properties. This task is
equivalent to using <code><property file="..."/></code>
except that it supports nested <code><filterchain></code> elements,
and it cannot be specified outside a target.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/makeurl.html">MakeURL</a></td>
<td><p>Creates a URL (list) from a file/fileset or path</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/pathconvert.html">PathConvert</a></td>
<td><p>Converts a nested path, path reference, filelist reference, or
fileset reference to the form usable on a specified platform and/or
to a list of items separated by the specified separator and stores
the result in the specified property.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/property.html">Property</a></td>
<td><p>Sets a property (by name and value), or set of properties
(from a file or resource) in the project.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/propertyfile.html">
PropertyFile</a></td>
<td><p>Creates or modifies property files. Useful when wanting to make
unattended modifications to configuration files for application
servers and applications. Typically used for things such as
automatically generating a build number and saving it to a build
properties file, or doing date manipulation.<p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/uptodate.html">Uptodate</a></td>
<td><p>Sets a property if a given target file is newer than a set of
source files.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/whichresource.html">Whichresource</a></td>
<td><p>Find a class or resource.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/xmlproperty.html">XmlProperty</a></td>
<td><p>Loads property values from a well-formed XML file.</p></td>
</tr>
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<td><p>Implements a basic FTP client that can send, receive,
list, and delete files, and create directories.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/rexec.html">Rexec</a></td>
<td><p>Task to automate a remote rexec session.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/scp.html">Scp</a></td>
<td><p>Copy files to or from a remote server using SSH.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/setproxy.html">setproxy</a></td>
<td><p>Sets Java's web proxy properties, so that tasks and code run
in the same JVM can have through-the-firewall access to remote web sites.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/sshexec.html">Sshexec</a></td>
<td><p>Execute a command on a remote server using SSH.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/telnet.html">Telnet</a></td>
<td><p>Task to automate a remote <i>telnet</i> session. This task uses
nested <code><read></code> and <code><write></code> tags
to indicate strings to wait for and specify text to send.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/cvs.html">Cvs</a></td>
<td><p>Handles packages/modules retrieved from a
<a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/" target="_top">CVS</a>
repository.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/changelog.html">CvsChangeLog</a></td>
<td><p>Generates an XML report of the changes recorded in a
<a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/" target="_top">CVS</a>
repository.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/cvspass.html">CVSPass</a></td>
<td><p>Adds entries to a .cvspass file. Adding entries to this file
has the same affect as a <i>cvs login</i> command.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/cvstagdiff.html">CvsTagDiff</a></td>
<td><p>Generates an XML-formatted report file of the changes between
two tags or dates recorded in a <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/"
target="_top">CVS</a> repository.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/clearcase.html">ClearCase</a></td>
<td><p>Tasks to perform the ClearCase cleartool <i>checkin</i>, <i>checkout</i>,
<i>uncheckout</i>, <i>update</i>, <i>lock</i>, <i>unlock</i>, <i>mklbtype</i>, <i>rmtype</i>, <i>mklabel</i>, <i>mkattr</i>, <i>mkdir</i>, <i>mkelem</i>, and <i>mkbl</i> commands.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/ccm.html">Continuus/Synergy</a></td>
<td><p>Tasks to perform the Continuus <i>ccmcheckin</i>,
<i>ccmcheckout</i>, <i>ccmcheckintask</i>, <i>ccmreconfigure</i>, and
<i>ccmcreateTask</i> commands.</p></td>
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Microsoft Visual SourceSafe</a></td>
<td><p>Tasks to perform the Visual SourceSafe <i>vssget</i>,
<i>vsslabel</i>, <i>vsshistory</i>, <i>vsscheckin</i>,
<i>vsscheckout</i>, <i>vssadd</i>, <i>vsscp</i>, and <i>vsscreate</i>
commands.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/pvcstask.html">Pvcs</a></td>
<td><p>Allows the user extract the latest edition of the source code
from a PVCS repository.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/sos.html">SourceOffSite</a></td>
<td><p>Tasks to perform the SourceOffSite <i>sosget</i>, <i>soslabel</i>,
<i>soscheckin</i>, and <i>soscheckout</i> commands.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/junit.html">Junit</a></td>
<td><p>Runs tests from the <a href="http://www.junit.org">Junit</a>
testing framework. This task has been tested with JUnit 3.0 up to
JUnit 3.7; it won't work with versions prior to JUnit 3.0.</p></td>
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<td nowrap><a href="Tasks/junitreport.html">JunitReport</a></td>
<td><p>Merges the individual XML files generated by the
<a href="Tasks/junit.html">Junit</a> task and applies a
stylesheet on the resulting merged document to provide a browsable
report of the testcases results.</p></td>
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