[news.eclipse.technology] Ant problems

["Kevin E. Breidenbach" <no@xxxxxxxx>]

I have created a custom ant task (that extends the Task class), which works
perfectly when run from the command line or in JBuilder, but will not
function in eclipse.

I have located the problem in the init method:

    public void init()
    {
        // when run in Eclipse the following line always returns null
        callee = (Ant)super.project.createTask("ant");

        callee.setOwningTarget(super.target);
        callee.setTaskName(getTaskName());
        callee.setLocation(super.location);
        callee.init();
    }

As a test I have tried changing this so the createTask call creates
different tasks (e.g. antcall etc.), however nothing works.

I have run this on the command line with the ant version that comes with
eclipse (plugin org.apache.ant_1.5.4) and it works fine.

In addition I have also changed the ant runtime to use a different versions
of ant, but to no avail.

I have a feeling that the problem lies in the way eclipse starts ant (i.e.
org.eclipse.ant.internal.core.ant.InternalAntRunner), but I am not sure.

Has anybody had similar problems and fixed it?

Thanks in advance,
Kevin