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I found a few problems with running Ant from within Eclipse 2.1. Build ID 200211151436 I couldn't start Ant with the build.xml. I renamed build.xml to another name, then renamed it back to build.xml and now it worked. External Tools View: the configuration menu Options -> Prompt for arguments before running tool does not work. Or how do I configure that I want to choose the targets that should run? Eclipse Ant never asks me now in M3, in earlier versions it did. Window -> Preferences -> External Tools -> Ant -> Classpath When I add a file to this Ant classpath, it is not remembered after leaving and starting Eclipse again. I have a target which fails if there is not user property assigned by ant -Duser=whoever This target works when I start it from a prompt window. In Eclipse I had External Tools View -> click on build.xml right mouse -> properties -> Arguments - and in this text field I wrote -Duser=whoever Doesn't work, the target always fails - That's the first question, how to insert a -D property. And - second point - when I start that target by right clicking on build.xml in the Package Explorer, I get a dialog which gives me my error message in the fail part of the target. But when I start it with Run -> External Tools -> build.xml I get no error dialog? I've read that Ant in Eclipse will be changed a lot until the next version, so maybe all those things are just temporary problems, but they are very disturbing nevertheless.
Most of these problems have been addressed by other bug reports and with the new development. The remaining use cases are no longer possible. Sorry for the problems but things are changing really rapidily in the external tools / Ant integration. I am going to close this bug report but please if you can evaluate the latest integration build (coming out today) and open separate bug reports for any problem that still exists.
