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Re: [platform-ant-dev] Ant integration in Eclipse

Monday, October 21, 2002, 12:54:27 PM, Darin Wright wrote:

> 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

I haven't looked at the ANT view plugin, but I'm hopeful that the
improvements will also include code assist and syntax highlighting.

-- 
Regards,
David



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