[news.eclipse.platform] Re: External Plug-in Modification

[PaulNews <paulnews@xxxxxxxxx>]

Microsoft wrote:
> Paul,
>
> I've read up on ant, xml, and the workbench. I've played with the "external
> tools" of eclipse but can't seem to figure out anything but creating my own
> ant tool. I find no reference to modifying any ant task that exists as the
> eclipse ant plugin.
>
> How do I get to the ant task that's associated with ftp?

You're gonna have to manually go digging for it, without any help from 
the IDE.

It should be in the org.apache.ant_1.6.5 plugin somewhere. Like I said:

> 2) find the ant jar that contains the Ftp.class file
> 3) replace it with your Ftp.class file (magically generated by you)
> 4) rejar the plugin, and copy it back into eclipse/plugins directory
> (saving the original, of course)
> 5) restart eclipse with -clean

I would copy the org.apache.ant plugin somewhere safe before I started 
hacking changes into it.

Later,
PW