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AW: [jdt-dev] Targeted Ant / Eclipse Plugin?
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Maybe the AutoConfigurationPlugIn [1] would be a
supporter.
Another way would be defining the classpath and the taskdef
inside the buildscript. Maybe use Ivy for automatic downloading the
JARs.
Jan
[1]
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/An_auto-configuration_plugin_for_Eclipse
It's the whole business of placings that ant tasks on the project
classpath. I really would rather that be done by a plugin and not my users.
I've found a way to do it through some of the Ant based plugins, thanks.
On 6/22/07, scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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