Comment 1 Adam Schlegel 2002-05-24 14:43:16 EDT

When adding a custom task/type to Eclipse's Ant via the properties page, the  
page does not check to see if the class that the user gives is actually on 
Ant's classpath. If the class is not foud, then Ant will report an error the 
first time it is run.

Since the dialog that the user types the classname into requires that a jar 
file containing the class be specified, it would be better to browse the jar 
file and select the class, rather than type in the class name. This would 
prevent invalid classnames from being entered.

Comment 2 Simon Arsenault 2002-05-29 13:16:05 EDT

At the very least, we should validate the class name against the jar file. 
Providing a list to select from is a nice to have for release 2.0

Comment 3 Darin Swanson 2002-10-24 10:57:25 EDT

To make this even better we should also check the validity of the task a la 
org.apache.tools.ant.Project#checkTaskClass(Class)

Comment 4 Darin Swanson 2002-11-12 20:11:06 EST

Moving to M4

Comment 5 Darin Swanson 2002-12-05 12:00:50 EST

Reworked.
You now view the contents of the JAR and select the class file.

Comment 6 Darin Swanson 2002-12-05 12:01:14 EST

Please verify (Jared).

Comment 7 Jared Burns 2002-12-09 18:19:30 EST

Verified.