[platform-ant-dev] Ant integration in Eclipse

["Darin Wright" <Darin_Wright@xxxxxxx>]

There have been several posts to this mailing list regarding the usability/integration of Ant in Eclipse. The ANT team would like to acheive a better level of ANT integration.

An ANT view has been developed by Roscoe Rush (http://freshmeat.net/projects/r2tech-eclipse-antview/?topic_id=46), which is along the lines of integration we would like to achieve.

We believe a user should be able to do these sorts of things:
* Display one or more Ant scripts in a view which shows the targets, dependencies, and (possibly) tasks, in a hierarchical tree
* Run a script or selected target(s) from the view
* Synchronize the Ant view with the associated file, as it is edited
* Configure the working directory and arguments associated with a script
* Configure which resources are refreshed after a script is run (if any)
* Add/order an ant script to be run as part a project's build process

We are currently in the design process, and welcome input from the community.

Darin