From 9af589f0f7a9c5c0eb815318809afd90003ca53a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:15:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a few items to the action list. Some of which are based
 on a submission by "Adam Murdoch" <adammurdoch_ml@yahoo.com>.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@270224 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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 docs/ant2/actionlist.html | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/ant2/actionlist.html b/docs/ant2/actionlist.html
index 67b2eaff9..745e40a75 100644
--- a/docs/ant2/actionlist.html
+++ b/docs/ant2/actionlist.html
@@ -114,6 +114,21 @@
         <td>Peter Donald<br />(peter at apache.org)</td>
         <td>Not Started</td>
       </tr>
+      <tr>
+        <td><a href="#embeddor">Design an API to embed Ant into other applications</a></td>
+        <td>None</td>
+        <td>Not Started</td>
+      </tr>
+      <tr>
+        <td><a href="#info">Design a TypeInfo system similar to BeanInfo to describe Tasks</a></td>
+        <td>None</td>
+        <td>Not Started</td>
+      </tr>
+      <tr>
+        <td><a href="#antdoc">Design Antdoc to generate manual from .java files</a></td>
+        <td>None</td>
+        <td>Not Started</td>
+      </tr>
     </table>
     </div>
   </blockquote>
@@ -410,5 +425,52 @@ File[] files = cm.getOutOfDate();
     </p>
   </blockquote>
 
+  <h3>Embeddor API for Ant</h3>
+  <a name="embeddor" />
+  <blockquote>
+    <p>
+      Identify different environments in which it would be useful to embed Ant or an Ant-like 
+      tool. Identify what these environments are likely to demand in terms of API and support
+      and then design a system that works in these environments without compromising ants 
+      core goal (ie a build system). Some suggestions for such an API include;
+    </p>
+    <ul>
+      <li>Pluggable ProjectBuilders to allow building of project from a variety of sources,
+       file, URL, InputStream, SAX etc</li>
+      <li>Pluggable ClassLoader arrangement</li>
+      <li>Ability to set User Properties</li>
+      <li>Ability to add Task/Data/Type definitions</li>
+      <li>Ability to add/remove Listeners</li>
+      <li>Ability to add/remove Loggers</li>
+      <li>Ability to get meta-information about targets (such as name and description)</li>
+      <li>The ability to execute a task and/or targets</li>
+      <li>The ability to add tasklibs</li>
+      <li>The ability to add VFS mount points</li>
+      <li>The ability to manipulate ProjectModel and build it from GUIs</li>
+      <li>A general task engine API</li>
+    </ul>
+  </blockquote>
+
+  <h3>TypeInfo system</h3>
+  <a name="info" />
+  <blockquote>
+    <p>
+      Add in the ability to represent tasks using specified meta-info, This would allow 
+      generation and manipulation of information such as what attributes are available, 
+      what elements are supported etc. 
+    </p>
+  </blockquote>
+
+  <h3>Antdoc</h3>
+  <a name="antdoc" />
+  <blockquote>
+    <p>
+      This is partially based on the above TypeInfo system. It involves the ability to 
+      take the TypeInfo made available and generate documentation for the tasks. This 
+      would allow multiple formats of documentaiton to be easily maintained and reduce 
+      the chance that documentation gets out of whack.
+    </p>
+  </blockquote>
+
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