Re: [jdt-dev] Targeted Ant / Eclipse Plugin?

[scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

What I currently do is use the ant launcher class to test by tasks in
eclipse, and place the bin for my ant task project on the classpath for
that launcher. Works great.

In my ant build scripts, I have a build step that builds those task
classes as well, then uses taskdef to define the tasks.

(I'm not sure if that makes sense, but all I need to do to add a new task
is create the class and place it in my antlib.xml in that project.)

-- Scott, the less-than-clear-because-he's-hungry

> I'd like to write a plugin for Eclipse's JDT  that does one very simple
> thing. I'll explain what I'm trying to accomplish since I'm not sure I
> know
> the right words to ask after the specific plugin concepts yet. I've not
> developed an Eclipse plugin before.
>
> Basically, I have a jar that contains some ant tasks. To use said jar, you
> just stick it on your ant command line with a -lib parameter. In eclipse,
> I
> suppose the proper thing to do would be to go into your preferences and
> edit
> your Ant Runtime options to Add Task ... for each task, naming the tasks
> and
> the jar it lives in.
>
> That works fine, however what I would like to do is simplify my user
> experience by giving them a plugin that would update the Ant Runtime
> automatically. The goal I have is to just let them put a URL in the
> eclipse
> updater and they never have to mess around with their build tool settings.
> If I decide to add a dependency, move a task, whatever it's basically not
> their problem and the plugin would just update the Ant Runtime settings
> appropriately.
>
> I'm not sure if this is possible. I'm not sure if this can be done in such
> a
> way as to give each project the ability to opt-in to these sorts of
> settings. I'm not sure what kind of plugin this is, so the plugin APIs
> that
> would help do this aren't clear to me yet. I've only just started to look
> through the APIs to see if this can be done, but if anyone knows off hand
> if
> this sort of thing is possible please let me know. Thanks,
>
> --
>
> - Eric
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