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    <author email="jalberto@cellectivity.com">Jose Alberto Fernandez</author>
    <author email="antoine@apache.org">Antoine Levy-Lambert</author>
    <title>Antlib</title>
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  <section name="Introduction">
    <p>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.
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  <section name="Overview">
    <p>
    Jose Alberto Fernandez 03.04.2003 18:25
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    <p>
There are the following features in the antlib proposal:
    <ol>
    <li>
    antlib &amp; antjar
    </li>
    <li>
    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).
    </li>
    <li>
    A scoping framework for the symbol tables needed to manage the antlib definitions (I think ANT has something on this regard)
    </li>
    <li>
    A framework for managing classloaders where you can specify which classloader to use when loading an antlib.
    </li>
    </ol>
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  <section name="Specific themes">
    <ol>
     <li>
    <a href="antlib_contract.html"> Antlib contract</a>
     </li>
     <li>
<a href="antlib_descriptors.html"> Antlib descriptors</a>
     </li>
     <li>
<a href="antlib_classloaders.html">Classloaders</a>
     </li>
     <li>
<a href="roles.html">Roles, polymorphism, introspection</a>
     </li>
     <li>
<a href="antlib_namespaces.html">XML namespaces</a>
     </li>
     <li>
<a href="antlib_roadmap.html">Roadmap</a>
     </li>
    </ol>
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