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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.

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