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# Antlib

### Introduction

The purpose of this document is to summarize the discussions taking place concerning antlib. I will try to always give proper credit, and to represent honestly different views expressed on the ant development mailing list. Send comments/criticisms if you are not happy with these documents.

### Overview

Jose Alberto Fernandez 03.04.2003 18:25

There are the following features in the antlib proposal:

1. antlib & antjar
2. type definitions that allow to define new implementations of mappers, selectors, paths, conditions, etc. That you can define in your antlib and a way to link this with the introspectors (I am not sure how complete this is).
3. A scoping framework for the symbol tables needed to manage the antlib definitions (I think ANT has something on this regard)
4. A framework for managing classloaders where you can specify which classloader to use when loading an antlib.

### Specific themes

1. Antlib contract
2. Antlib descriptors
3. Classloaders
4. Roles, polymorphism, introspection
5. XML namespaces
6. Roadmap

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