Given the large number of tasks available to a build designer, it may be +difficult to get an overall view of what each task can do. The following +table provides a short description of each task and a link to the complete +documentation.
+ +| Task Name | +Description | +
|---|---|
| Ant | +Runs Ant on a supplied buildfile. This can be used to build subprojects. |
+
| AntCall | +Call another target within the same build-file optionally specifying some +properties. |
+
| AntStructure | +Generates a DTD for Ant buildfiles which contains information +about all tasks currently known to Ant. |
+
| Apply | +Executes a system command. When the os attribute is specified, then +the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of the specified operating +systems. |
+
| Available | +Sets a property if a resource is available at runtime. This resource can be a +file, a directory, a class in the classpath, or a JVM system resource. |
+
| Chmod | +Changes the permissions of a file or all files inside specified directories. + Right now it has effect only under Unix. The permissions are also UNIX style, like + the argument for the chmod command. |
+
| Copy | +Copies a file or Fileset to a new file or directory. |
+
| Copydir | +This task has been deprecated. Use the Copy task instead. |
+
| Copyfile | +This task has been deprecated. Use the Copy task instead. |
+
| Cvs | +Handles packages/modules retrieved from a +CVS repository. |
+
| CVSPass | +Adds entries to a .cvspass file. Adding entries to this file has the same + affect as a cvs login command. |
+
| Delete | +Deletes either a single file, all files in a specified directory + and its sub-directories, or a set of files specified by one or more + FileSets. |
+
| Deltree | +This task has been deprecated. Use the Delete task instead. |
+
| Ear | +An extension of the Jar task with special + treatment for files that should end up in an Enterprise Application archive. |
+
| Echo | +Echoes a message to System.out or a file. |
+
| Exec | +Executes a system command. When the os attribute is specified, then +the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of the specified operating +systems. |
+
| ExecOn | +Executes a system command. When the os attribute is specified, then +the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of the specified operating +systems. +The files and/or directories of a number of FileSets are passed as arguments to the system
+command. At least one nested |
+
| Fail | +Exits the current build (just throwing a BuildException), optionally printing additional information. |
+
| Filter | +Sets a token filter for this project or read multiple token filter from +an input file and sets these as filters. +Token filters are used by all tasks that perform file copying operations +through the Project commodity methods. |
+
| FixCRLF | +Modifies a file to add or remove tabs, carriage returns, linefeeds, and + EOF characters. |
+
| GenKey | +Generates a key in keystore. |
+
| Get | +Gets a file from a URL. |
+
| GUnzip | +Expands a GZip file. |
+
| GZip | +GZips a file. |
+
| Jar | +Jars a set of files. |
+
| Java | +Executes a Java class within the running (Ant) VM or forks another VM if +specified. |
+
| Javac | +Compiles a source tree within the running (Ant) VM. |
+
| Javadoc/Javadoc2 | +Generates code documentation using the javadoc tool. +The Javadoc2 task is deprecated. Use the Javadoc task + instead. |
+
A task to send SMTP email. |
+ |
| Mkdir | +Creates a directory. Also non-existent parent directories are created, when +necessary. |
+
| Move | +Moves a file to a new file or directory, or sets of files to +a new directory. |
+
| Patch | +Applies a diff file to originals. |
+
| PathConvert | +Converts a nested path, path reference, or fileset reference to the form usable on a + specified platform and stores the result in a given property. |
+
| Property | +Sets a property (by name and value), or set of properties (from file or +resource) in the project. |
+
| Record | +A recorder is a listener to the current build process that records the +output to a file. |
+
| Rename | +This task has been deprecated. Use the Move task instead. |
+
| Replace | +Replace is a directory based task for replacing the occurrence of a given string with another string +in selected file. |
+
| Rmic | +Runs the rmic compiler for a certain class. |
+
| SignJar | +Signs a jar or zip file with the javasign command line tool. |
+
| Sleep | +A task for sleeping a short period of time, useful when a build or + deployment process requires an interval between tasks. |
+
| Sql | +Executes a series of SQL statements via JDBC to a database. Statements + can either be read in from a text file using the src attribute or from + between the enclosing SQL tags. |
+
| Style | +Process a set of documents via XSLT. |
+
| Tar | +Creates a tar archive. |
+
| Taskdef | +Adds a task definition to the current project, such that this new task can be +used in the current project. |
+
| Touch | +Changes the modification time of a file and possibly creates it at +the same time. |
+
| TStamp | +Sets the |
+
| Typedef | +Adds a data type definition to the current project, such that this +new type can be used in the current project. |
+
| Unjar | +Unzips a jarfile. |
+
| Untar | +Untars a tarfile. |
+
| Unwar | +Unzips a warfile. |
+
| Unzip | +Unzips a zipfile. |
+
| Uptodate | +Sets a property if a target files are more up to date than a set of +Source files. |
+
| War | +An extension of the Jar task with special
+ treatment for files that should end up in the |
+
| Zip | +Creates a zipfile. |
+
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+ + + diff --git a/docs/manual/coretasklist.html b/docs/manual/coretasklist.html index 0a15d454c..d4af74027 100644 --- a/docs/manual/coretasklist.html +++ b/docs/manual/coretasklist.html @@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ Patternset