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Re: [platform-ant-dev] custom ProjectHelper
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It is currently not possible. Could you open a bug report
(http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/index.html) against Platform Ant? Also, could
you point us to the doc explaining that?
Thanks,
Rodrigo
"Wannheden, Knut"
<knut.wannheden@paranor To: "'platform-ant-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx'" <platform-ant-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent by: Subject: [platform-ant-dev] custom ProjectHelper
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07/19/2002 10:59 AM
Please respond to
platform-ant-dev
Hi,
A while back Ant introduced the concept of a ProjectHelper, which is
responsible for setting up a project from an input (currently limited to
files). This is useful because it allows users to write their own
ProjectHelper, which works differently than the default ProjectHelper in
Ant.
There are two ways to plug in a custom ProjectHelper:
- via Java services (i.e. include a
META-INF/services/org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper file in a Jar
specifying what class is the custom ProjectHelper)
- by setting the system property org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper with
the value of the custom ProjectHelper's class name
When running Ant with the command line tool you can set the system property
by setting the environment variable ANT_OPTS, whose value is passed as
arguments to the VM.
So far, so good. My problem is now that I can't find a way to load my
custom ProjectHelper with the Eclipse Ant plugin. And unless Ant is
launched in a separate VM I don't see a way to do so either. An option
would maybe be using System.setProperty(), but then there might be problems
with the scurity manager.
Will custom ProjectHelpers be supported by the Eclipse plugin?
Cheers,
--
knut
