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26<h2><a name="top">Overview of Ant Tasks</a></h2>
27<p>Given the large number of tasks available with Ant, it may be
28difficult to get an overall view of what each task can do. The following
29tables provide a short description of each task and a link to the complete
30documentation.</p>
31
32<a href="#archive">Archive Tasks</a><br>
33<a href="#audit">Audit/Coverage Tasks</a><br>
34<a href="#compile">Compile Tasks</a><br>
35<a href="#deploy">Deployment Tasks</a><br>
36<a href="#doc">Documentation Tasks</a><br>
37<a href="#ejb">EJB Tasks</a><br>
38<a href="#exec">Execution Tasks</a><br>
39<a href="#file">File Tasks</a><br>
40<a href="#extensions">Java2 Extensions Tasks</a><br>
41<a href="#log">Logging Tasks</a><br>
42<a href="#mail">Mail Tasks</a><br>
43<a href="#misc">Miscellaneous Tasks</a><br>
44<a href="#net">.NET Tasks</a><br>
45<a href="#preproc">Pre-process Tasks</a><br>
46<a href="#prop">Property Tasks</a><br>
47<a href="#remote">Remote Tasks</a><br>
48<a href="#scm">SCM Tasks</a><br>
49<a href="#testing">Testing Tasks</a><br>
50<a href="#vaj">Visual Age for Java Tasks</a><br>
51
52
53<p></p>
54<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
55<td align="left"><b>
56<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
57<a name="archive">Archive Tasks</a>
58</font>
59</b></td>
60<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
61<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
62</font>
63</table>
64<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
65 <tr valign="top">
66 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
67 <td nowrap><b>Description</b></td>
68 </tr>
69
70 <tr valign="top">
71 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/unpack.html">BUnzip2</a></td>
72 <td><p>Expands a file packed using GZip or BZip2.</p></td>
73 </tr>
74
75 <tr valign="top">
76 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/pack.html">BZip2</a></td>
77 <td><p>Packs a file using the GZip or BZip2 algorithm. This task
78 does not do any dependency checking; the output file is always
79 generated</p></td>
80 </tr>
81
82 <tr valign="top">
83 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/cab.html">Cab</a></td>
84 <td><p>Creates Microsoft CAB archive files. It is invoked
85 similar to the <a href="CoreTasks/jar.html">Jar</a> or
86 <a href="CoreTasks/zip.html">Zip</a> tasks. This task will work on
87 Windows using the external <i>cabarc</i> tool (provided by Microsoft),
88 which must be located in your executable path.</p></td>
89 </tr>
90
91 <tr valign="top">
92 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/ear.html">Ear</a></td>
93 <td><p>An extension of the <a href="CoreTasks/jar.html">Jar</a> task with
94 special treatment for files that should end up in an
95 Enterprise Application archive.</p></td>
96 </tr>
97
98 <tr valign="top">
99 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/gunzip.html">GUnzip</a></td>
100 <td><p>Expands a GZip file.</p></td>
101 </tr>
102
103 <tr valign="top">
104 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/gzip.html">GZip</a></td>
105 <td><p>GZips a set of files.</p></td>
106 </tr>
107
108 <tr valign="top">
109 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/jar.html">Jar</a></td>
110 <td><p>Jars a set of files.</p></td>
111 </tr>
112
113 <tr valign="top">
114 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/jlink.html">Jlink</a></td>
115 <td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the <code>zipfileset</code>
116 and <code>zipgroupfileset</code> attributes of the
117 <a href="CoreTasks/jar.html">Jar</a> or
118 <a href="CoreTasks/zip.html">Zip</a> tasks instead.</p></td>
119 </tr>
120
121 <tr valign="top">
122 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/manifest.html">Manifest</a></td>
123 <td><p>Creates a manifest file.</p></td>
124 </tr>
125
126 <tr valign="top">
127 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/rpm.html">Rpm</a></td>
128 <td><p>Invokes the <i>rpm</i> executable to build a Linux installation
129 file. This task currently only works on Linux or other Unix platforms
130 with RPM support.</p></td>
131 </tr>
132
133 <tr valign="top">
134 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/signjar.html">SignJar</a></td>
135 <td><p>Signs a jar or zip file with the <i>javasign</i>
136 command-line tool.</p></td>
137 </tr>
138
139 <tr valign="top">
140 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/tar.html">Tar</a></td>
141 <td><p>Creates a tar archive.</p></td>
142 </tr>
143
144 <tr valign="top">
145 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/unzip.html">Unjar</a></td>
146 <td><p>Unzips a jarfile.</p></td>
147 </tr>
148
149 <tr valign="top">
150 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/untar.html">Untar</a></td>
151 <td><p>Untars a tarfile.</p></td>
152 </tr>
153
154 <tr valign="top">
155 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/unzip.html">Unwar</a></td>
156 <td><p>Unzips a warfile.</p></td>
157 </tr>
158
159 <tr valign="top">
160 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/unzip.html">Unzip</a></td>
161 <td><p>Unzips a zipfile.</p></td>
162 </tr>
163
164 <tr valign="top">
165 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/war.html">War</a></td>
166 <td><p>An extension of the <a href="CoreTasks/jar.html">Jar</a> task
167 with special treatment for files that should end up in the
168 <code>WEB-INF/lib</code>, <code>WEB-INF/classes</code>, or
169 <code>WEB-INF</code> directories of the Web Application Archive.</p></td>
170 </tr>
171
172 <tr valign="top">
173 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/zip.html">Zip</a></td>
174 <td><p>Creates a zipfile.</p></td>
175 </tr>
176</table>
177
178<p></p>
179<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
180<td align="left"><b>
181<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
182<a name="audit">Audit/Coverage Tasks</a>
183</font></b></td>
184<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
185<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
186</font>
187</table>
188<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
189 <tr valign="top">
190 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
191 <td><b>Description</b></td>
192 </tr>
193
194 <tr valign="top">
195 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/jdepend.html">JDepend</a></td>
196 <td><p>Invokes the <a href="http://www.clarkware.com/software/JDepend.html">
197 JDepend</a> parser. This parser &quot;traverses a set of Java source-file
198 directories and generates design-quality metrics for each Java
199 package&quot;.</p></td>
200 </tr>
201
202</table>
203
204<p></p>
205<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
206<td align="left"><b>
207<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
208<a name="compile">Compile Tasks</a>
209</font></b></td>
210<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
211<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
212</font>
213</table>
214<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
215 <tr valign="top">
216 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
217 <td><b>Description</b></td>
218 </tr>
219
220 <tr valign="top">
221 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/depend.html">Depend</a></td>
222 <td><p>Determines which classfiles are out-of-date with respect to their
223 source, removing the classfiles of any other classes that depend on the
224 out-of-date classes, forcing the re-compile of the removed classfiles.
225 Typically used in conjunction with the
226 <a href="CoreTasks/javac.html">Javac</a> task.</p></td>
227
228 <tr valign="top">
229 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/javac.html">Javac</a></td>
230 <td><p>Compiles the specified source file(s) within the running
231 (Ant) VM, or in another VM if the <code>fork</code> attribute is
232 specified.</p></td>
233 </tr>
234
235 <tr valign="top">
236 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/apt.html">Apt</a></td>
237 <td><p>Runs the annotation processor tool (apt), and then optionally compiles
238 the original code, and any generated source code.</p></td>
239 </tr>
240
241 <tr valign="top">
242 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/jspc.html">JspC</a></td>
243 <td><p>Runs the JSP compiler. It can be used to precompile JSP pages
244 for fast initial invocation of JSP pages, deployment on a server without
245 the full JDK installed, or simply to syntax-check the pages without
246 deploying them. The <a href="CoreTasks/javac.html">Javac</a> task
247 can be used to compile the generated Java source.
248 (For Weblogic JSP compiles,
249 see the <a href="OptionalTasks/wljspc.html">Wljspc</a> task.)</p></td>
250 </tr>
251
252 <tr valign="top">
253 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/netrexxc.html">NetRexxC</a></td>
254 <td><p>Compiles a
255 <a href="http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx" target="_top">NetRexx</a>
256 source tree within the running (Ant) VM.</p></td>
257 </tr>
258
259 <tr valign="top">
260 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/rmic.html">Rmic</a></td>
261 <td><p>Runs the <i>rmic</i> compiler on the specified file(s).</p></td>
262 </tr>
263
264 <tr valign="top">
265 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/wljspc.html">Wljspc</a></td>
266 <td><p>Compiles JSP pages using Weblogic's JSP compiler,
267 <i>weblogic.jspc</i>. (For non-Weblogic JSP compiles, see the
268 <a href="OptionalTasks/jspc.html">JspC</a> task.</p></td>
269 </tr>
270
271</table>
272
273<p></p>
274<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
275<td align="left"><b>
276<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
277<a name="deploy">Deployment Tasks</a>
278</font></b></td>
279<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
280<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
281</font>
282</table>
283<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
284 <tr valign="top">
285 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
286 <td><b>Description</b></td>
287 </tr>
288
289 <tr valign="top">
290 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/serverdeploy.html">ServerDeploy</a></td>
291 <td><p>Task to run a &quot;hot&quot; deployment tool for vendor-specific
292 J2EE server.
293 </p></td>
294 </tr>
295</table>
296
297<p></p>
298<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
299<td align="left"><b>
300<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
301<a name="doc">Documentation Tasks</a>
302</font></b></td>
303<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
304<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
305</font>
306</table>
307<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
308 <tr valign="top">
309 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
310 <td><b>Description</b></td>
311 </tr>
312
313 <tr valign="top">
314 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/javadoc.html">Javadoc/<i>Javadoc2</i></a></td>
315 <td><p>Generates code documentation using the <i>javadoc</i> tool.
316 The Javadoc2 task is deprecated; use the Javadoc task instead.</p></td>
317 </tr>
318
319 <tr valign="top">
320 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/stylebook.html">Stylebook</a></td>
321 <td><p>Executes the Apache Stylebook documentation generator.
322 Unlike the command-line version of this tool, all three arguments
323 are required to run the Stylebook task.</p></td>
324 </tr>
325</table>
326
327<p></p>
328<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
329<td align="left"><b>
330<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
331<a name="ejb">EJB Tasks</a>
332</font></b></td>
333<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
334<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
335</font>
336</table>
337<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
338 <tr valign="top">
339 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
340 <td><b>Description</b></td>
341 </tr>
342
343 <tr valign="top">
344 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/ejb.html">EJB Tasks</a></td>
345 <td><p>(See the documentation describing the EJB tasks.)</p></td>
346 </tr>
347</table>
348
349<p></p>
350<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
351<td align="left"><b>
352<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
353<a name="exec">Execution Tasks</a>
354</font></b></td>
355<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
356<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
357</font>
358</table>
359<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
360 <tr valign="top">
361 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
362 <td><b>Description</b></td>
363 </tr>
364
365 <tr valign="top">
366 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/ant.html">Ant</a></td>
367 <td><p>Runs Ant on a supplied buildfile, optionally
368 passing properties (with possibly new values).
369 This task can be used to build sub-projects.</p></td>
370 </tr>
371
372 <tr valign="top">
373 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/antcall.html">AntCall</a></td>
374 <td><p>Runs another target within the same buildfile, optionally
375 passing properties (with possibly new values).</p></td>
376 </tr>
377
378 <tr valign="top">
379 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/apply.html">Apply/<i>ExecOn</i></a></td>
380 <td><p>Executes a system command. When the <code>os</code> attribute is
381 specified, the command is only executed when Ant is run on one
382 of the specified operating systems.</p></td>
383 </tr>
384
385 <tr valign="top">
386 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/dependset.html">Dependset</a></td>
387 <td><p>This task compares a set of source files with a set of target
388 files. If any of the source files is newer than any of
389 the target files, all the target files are removed. </p></td>
390 </tr>
391
392 <tr valign="top">
393 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/exec.html">Exec</a></td>
394 <td><p>Executes a system command. When the <code>os</code> attribute
395 is specified, the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of
396 the specified operating systems.</p></td>
397 </tr>
398
399 <tr valign="top">
400 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/java.html">Java</a></td>
401 <td><p>Executes a Java class within the running (Ant) VM, or in
402 another VM if the <code>fork</code> attribute is specified.</p></td>
403 </tr>
404
405 <tr valign="top">
406 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/parallel.html">Parallel</a></td>
407 <td><p>A container task that can contain other Ant tasks.
408 Each nested task specified within the <code>&lt;parallel&gt;</code>
409 tag will be executed in its own thread.</p></td>
410 </tr>
411
412 <tr valign="top">
413 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/sequential.html">Sequential</a></td>
414 <td><p>A container task that can contain other Ant tasks.
415 The nested tasks are simply executed in sequence. Its primary use is
416 to support the sequential execution of a subset of tasks within
417 the <code>&lt;parallel&gt;</code> tag.</p></td>
418 </tr>
419
420 <tr valign="top">
421 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/sleep.html">Sleep</a></td>
422 <td><p> A task for suspending execution for a specified period of time.
423 Useful when a build or deployment process requires an interval between
424 tasks.</p></td>
425 </tr>
426
427 <tr valign="top">
428 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/subant.html">Subant</a></td>
429 <td><p> Calls a given target for all defined sub-builds. This is an extension of ant for bulk project execution.</p></td>
430 </tr>
431
432 <tr valign="top">
433 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/waitfor.html">Waitfor</a></td>
434 <td><p>Blocks execution until a set of specified conditions become true.
435 This task is intended to be used with the
436 <a href="CoreTasks/parallel.html">Parallel</a> task to synchronize
437 a set of processes.</p></td>
438 </tr>
439</table>
440
441<p></p>
442<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
443<td align="left"><b>
444<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
445<a name="file">File Tasks</a>
446</font></b></td>
447<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
448<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
449</font>
450</table>
451<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
452 <tr valign="top">
453 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
454 <td><b>Description</b></td>
455 </tr>
456
457 <tr valign="top">
458 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/attrib.html">Attrib</a></td>
459 <td><p>Changes the permissions and/or attributes of a file or all
460 files inside the specified directories. Currently, it has effect
461 only under Windows.</p></td>
462 </tr>
463
464 <tr valign="top">
465 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/checksum.html">Checksum</a></td>
466 <td><p>Generates a checksum for a file or set of files. This task can
467 also be used to perform checksum verifications.</p></td>
468 </tr>
469
470 <tr valign="top">
471 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/chgrp.html">Chgrp</a></td>
472 <td><p>Changes the group ownership of a file or all files inside
473 the specified directories. Currently, it has effect only under
474 Unix.</p></td>
475 </tr>
476
477 <tr valign="top">
478 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/chmod.html">Chmod</a></td>
479 <td><p>Changes the permissions of a file or all files inside the
480 specified directories. Currently, it has effect only under Unix.
481 The permissions are also UNIX style, like the arguments for the
482 <i>chmod</i> command.</p></td>
483 </tr>
484
485 <tr valign="top">
486 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/chown.html">Chown</a></td>
487 <td><p>Changes the owner of a file or all files inside the
488 specified directories. Currently, it has effect only under
489 Unix.</p></td>
490 </tr>
491
492 <tr valign="top">
493 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/concat.html">Concat</a></td>
494 <td><p>Concatenates multiple files into a single one or to Ant's
495 logging system.</p></td>
496 </tr>
497
498 <tr valign="top">
499 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/copy.html">Copy</a></td>
500 <td><p>Copies a file or Fileset to a new file or directory.</p></td>
501 </tr>
502
503 <tr valign="top">
504 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/copydir.html"><i>Copydir</i></a></td>
505 <td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the
506 <a href="CoreTasks/copy.html">Copy</a> task instead.</p></td>
507 </tr>
508
509 <tr valign="top">
510 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/copyfile.html"><i>Copyfile</i></a></td>
511 <td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the
512 <a href="CoreTasks/copy.html">Copy</a> task instead.</p></td>
513 </tr>
514
515 <tr valign="top">
516 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/delete.html">Delete</a></td>
517 <td><p>Deletes either a single file, all files and sub-directories
518 in a specified directory, or a set of files specified by one or more
519 <a href="CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s.</p></td>
520 </tr>
521
522 <tr valign="top">
523 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/deltree.html"><i>Deltree</i></a></td>
524 <td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the
525 <a href="CoreTasks/delete.html">Delete</a> task instead.</p></td>
526 </tr>
527
528 <tr valign="top">
529 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/filter.html">Filter</a></td>
530 <td><p>Sets a token filter for this project, or reads multiple token
531 filters from a specified file and sets these as filters. Token filters
532 are used by all tasks that perform file-copying operations.</p></td>
533 </tr>
534
535 <tr valign="top">
536 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/fixcrlf.html">FixCRLF</a></td>
537 <td><p>Modifies a file to add or remove tabs, carriage returns, linefeeds,
538 and EOF characters.</p></td>
539 </tr>
540
541 <tr valign="top">
542 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/get.html">Get</a></td>
543 <td><p>Gets a file from a URL.</p></td>
544 </tr>
545
546 <tr valign="top">
547 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/mkdir.html">Mkdir</a></td>
548 <td><p>Creates a directory. Non-existent parent directories are created,
549 when necessary.</p></td>
550 </tr>
551
552 <tr valign="top">
553 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/move.html">Move</a></td>
554 <td><p>Moves a file to a new file or directory, or a set(s) of file(s) to
555 a new directory.</p></td>
556 </tr>
557
558 <tr valign="top">
559 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/patch.html">Patch</a></td>
560 <td><p>Applies a &quot;diff&quot; file to originals.</p></td>
561 </tr>
562
563 <tr valign="top">
564 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/rename.html"><i>Rename</i></a></td>
565 <td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the <a href="CoreTasks/move.html">Move</a>
566 task instead.</p></td>
567 </tr>
568
569 <tr valign="top">
570 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/renameextensions.html">
571 <i>RenameExtensions</i></a></td>
572 <td><p><i>Deprecated</i>. Use the <a href="CoreTasks/move.html">Move</a>
573 task with a <a href="CoreTypes/mapper.html#glob-mapper">glob mapper</a>
574 instead.</p></td>
575 </tr>
576
577 <tr valign="top">
578 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/replace.html">Replace</a></td>
579 <td><p>Replace is a directory-based task for replacing the occurrence
580 of a given string with another string in selected file.</p></td>
581 </tr>
582
583 <tr valign="top">
584 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/replaceregexp.html">
585 ReplaceRegExp</a></td>
586 <td><p>Directory-based task for replacing the occurrence of a given
587 regular expression with a substitution pattern in a file or set of
588 files.</p></td>
589 </tr>
590
591 <tr valign="top">
592 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/sync.html">Sync</a></td>
593 <td><p>Synchronize two directory trees.</p></td>
594 </tr>
595
596 <tr valign="top">
597 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/tempfile.html">Tempfile</a></td>
598 <td><p>Generates a name for a new temporary file and sets the specified
599 property to that name.</p></td>
600 </tr>
601
602 <tr valign="top">
603 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/touch.html">Touch</a></td>
604 <td><p>Changes the modification time of a file and possibly creates it at
605 the same time.</p></td>
606 </tr>
607</table>
608
609<p></p>
610<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
611<td align="left"><b>
612<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
613<a name="extensions">Java2 Extensions Tasks</a>
614</font></b></td>
615<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
616<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
617</font>
618</table>
619<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
620 <tr valign="top">
621 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
622 <td><b>Description</b></td>
623 </tr>
624
625 <tr valign="top">
626 <td nowrap>
627 <a href="OptionalTasks/jarlib-available.html">Jarlib-available</a></td>
628 <td><p>Check whether an extension is present in a FileSet or an
629 ExtensionSet. If the extension is present, the specified property is
630 set.</p>
631 </td>
632 </tr>
633
634 <tr valign="top">
635 <td nowrap>
636 <a href="OptionalTasks/jarlib-display.html">Jarlib-display</a></td>
637 <td><p>Display the &quot;Optional Package&quot; and
638 &quot;Package Specification&quot; information contained within the
639 specified jars.</p>
640 </td>
641 </tr>
642
643 <tr valign="top">
644 <td nowrap>
645 <a href="OptionalTasks/jarlib-manifest.html">Jarlib-manifest</a></td>
646 <td><p>Task to generate a manifest that declares all the dependencies
647 in manifest. The dependencies are determined by looking in the
648 specified path and searching for Extension/&quot;Optional Package&quot;
649 specifications in the manifests of the jars.</p>
650 </td>
651 </tr>
652
653 <tr valign="top">
654 <td nowrap>
655 <a href="OptionalTasks/jarlib-resolve.html">Jarlib-resolve</a></td>
656 <td><p>Try to locate a jar to satisfy an extension, and place the
657 location of the jar into the specified property.</p>
658 </td>
659 </tr>
660</table>
661
662<p></p>
663<p></p>
664<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
665<td align="left"><b>
666<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
667<a name="log">Logging Tasks</a>
668</font></b></td>
669<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
670<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
671</font>
672</table>
673<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
674 <tr valign="top">
675 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
676 <td><b>Description</b></td>
677 </tr>
678
679 <tr valign="top">
680 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/recorder.html">Record</a></td>
681 <td><p>Runs a listener that records the logging output of the
682 build-process events to a file. Several recorders can exist
683 at the same time. Each recorder is associated with a file.</p></td>
684 </tr>
685</table>
686
687<p></p>
688<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
689<td align="left"><b>
690<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
691<a name="mail">Mail Tasks</a>
692</font></b></td>
693<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
694<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
695</font>
696</table>
697<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
698 <tr valign="top">
699 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
700 <td><b>Description</b></td>
701 </tr>
702
703 <tr valign="top">
704 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/mail.html">Mail</a></td>
705 <td><p>A task to send SMTP email.</p></td>
706 </tr>
707
708 <tr valign="top">
709 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/mimemail.html">MimeMail</a></td>
710 <td><p><i>Deprecated</i>. Use the <a href="CoreTasks/mail.html">Mail</a>
711 task instead.</p></td>
712 </tr>
713
714</table>
715
716<p></p>
717<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
718<td align="left"><b>
719<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
720<a name="misc">Miscellaneous Tasks</a>
721</font></b></td>
722<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
723<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
724</font>
725</table>
726<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
727 <tr valign="top">
728 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
729 <td><b>Description</b></td>
730 </tr>
731
732 <tr valign="top">
733 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/defaultexcludes.html">Defaultexcludes</a></td>
734 <td><p>Modify the list of default exclude patterns from within
735 your build file.</p></td>
736 </tr>
737
738 <tr valign="top">
739 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/echo.html">Echo</a></td>
740 <td><p>Echoes text to <code>System.out</code> or to a file.</p></td>
741 </tr>
742
743 <tr valign="top">
744 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/fail.html">Fail</a></td>
745 <td><p>Exits the current build by throwing a BuildException,
746 optionally printing additional information.</p></td>
747 </tr>
748
749 <tr valign="top">
750 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/genkey.html">GenKey</a></td>
751 <td><p>Generates a key in keystore.</p></td>
752 </tr>
753
754 <tr valign="top">
755 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/input.html">Input</a></td>
756 <td><p>Allows user interaction during the build process by displaying a
757 message and reading a line of input from the console.</p></td>
758 </tr>
759
760 <tr valign="top">
761 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/script.html">Script</a></td>
762 <td><p>Executes a script in a
763 <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/"
764 target="_top">Apache BSF</a>-supported language.</p></td>
765 </tr>
766
767 <tr valign="top">
768 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/sound.html">Sound</a></td>
769 <td><p>Plays a sound file at the end of the build, according to whether
770 the build failed or succeeded.</p></td>
771 </tr>
772
773 <tr valign="top">
774 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/splash.html">Splash</a></td>
775 <td><p>Displays a splash screen.</p></td>
776 </tr>
777
778 <tr valign="top">
779 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/sql.html">Sql</a></td>
780 <td><p>Executes a series of SQL statements via JDBC to a database.
781 Statements can either be read in from a text file using the
782 <code>src</code> attribute, or from between the enclosing SQL
783 tags.</p></td>
784 </tr>
785
786 <tr valign="top">
787 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/taskdef.html">Taskdef</a></td>
788 <td><p>Adds a task definition to the current project, such that this
789 new task can be used in the current project.</p></td>
790 </tr>
791
792 <tr valign="top">
793 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/tstamp.html">TStamp</a></td>
794 <td><p>Sets the <code>DSTAMP</code>, <code>TSTAMP</code>, and
795 <code>TODAY</code> properties in the current project, based on
796 the current date and time.</p></td>
797 </tr>
798
799 <tr valign="top">
800 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/typedef.html">Typedef</a></td>
801 <td><p>Adds a data-type definition to the current project, such that this
802 new type can be used in the current project.</p></td>
803 </tr>
804
805 <tr valign="top">
806 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/xmlvalidate.html">XmlValidate</a></td>
807 <td><p>Checks that XML files are valid (or only well-formed). This task
808 uses the XML parser that is currently used by Ant by default, but any SAX1/2
809 parser can be specified, if needed.</p></td>
810 </tr>
811</table>
812
813<p></p>
814<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
815<td align="left"><b>
816<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
817<a name="net">.NET Tasks</a>
818</font></b></td>
819<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
820<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
821</font>
822</table>
823<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
824 <tr valign="top">
825 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
826 <td><b>Description</b></td>
827 </tr>
828
829 <tr valign="top">
830 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/dotnet.html">.NET Tasks</a></td>
831 <td><p>(See the documentation describing the .NET tasks.)</p></td>
832 </tr>
833</table>
834
835<p></p>
836<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
837<td align="left"><b>
838<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
839<a name="preproc">Pre-process Tasks</a>
840</font></b></td>
841<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
842<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
843</font>
844</table>
845<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
846 <tr valign="top">
847 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
848 <td><b>Description</b></td>
849 </tr>
850
851 <tr valign="top">
852 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/antlr.html">ANTLR</a></td>
853 <td><p>Invokes the <a HREF="http://www.antlr.org/" target="_top">ANTLR</a>
854 Translator generator on a grammar file.</p></td>
855 </tr>
856
857 <tr valign="top">
858 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/antstructure.html">AntStructure</a></td>
859 <td><p>Generates a DTD for Ant buildfiles that contains information
860 about all tasks currently known to Ant.</p></td>
861 </tr>
862
863 <tr valign="top">
864 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/import.html">Import</a></td>
865 <td><p>Import another build file and potentially override targets
866 in it with targets of your own.</p></td>
867 </tr>
868
869 <tr valign="top">
870 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/javacc.html">JavaCC</a></td>
871 <td><p>Invokes the
872 <a HREF="http://javacc.dev.java.net/" target="_top">
873 JavaCC</a> compiler-compiler on a grammar file.</p></td>
874 </tr>
875
876 <tr valign="top">
877 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/javah.html">Javah</a></td>
878 <td><p>Generates JNI headers from a Java class.</p></td>
879 </tr>
880
881 <tr valign="top">
882 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/jjdoc.html">JJDoc</a></td>
883 <td><p>Invokes the <a href="http://javacc.dev.java.net/">
884 JJDoc</a> documentation generator for the JavaCC compiler-compiler.
885 JJDoc takes a JavaCC parser specification and produces documentation
886 for the BNF grammar. It can operate in three modes, determined by
887 command line options. This task only invokes JJDoc if the grammar file
888 is newer than the generated BNF grammar documentation.</p></td>
889 </tr>
890
891 <tr valign="top">
892 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/jjtree.html">JJTree</a></td>
893 <td><p>Invokes the <a href="http://javacc.dev.java.net/">
894 JJTree</a> preprocessor for the JavaCC compiler-compiler. It inserts
895 parse-tree building actions at various places in the JavaCC source that
896 it generates. The output of JJTree is run through JavaCC to create the
897 parser. This task only invokes JJTree if the grammar file is newer than
898 the generated JavaCC file.</p></td>
899 </tr>
900
901 <tr valign="top">
902 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/macrodef.html">Macrodef</a></td>
903 <td><p>Define a new task as a macro built-up upon other tasks.</p></td>
904 </tr>
905
906 <tr valign="top">
907 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/native2ascii.html">
908 Native2Ascii</a></td>
909 <td><p>Converts files from native encodings to ASCII with escaped Unicode.
910 A common usage is to convert source files maintained in a native
911 operating system encoding to ASCII, prior to compilation.</p></td>
912 </tr>
913
914 <tr valign="top">
915 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/presetdef.html">Presetdef</a></td>
916 <td><p>Define a new task by instrumenting an existing task with
917 default values for attributes or child elements.</p>
918 </tr>
919
920 <tr valign="top">
921 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/translate.html">Translate</a></td>
922 <td><p>Identifies keys in files, delimited by special tokens, and
923 translates them with values read from resource bundles.</p></td>
924 </tr>
925
926 <tr valign="top">
927 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/style.html">XSLT</a></td>
928 <td><p>Processes a set of documents via XSLT.</p></td>
929 </tr>
930
931</table>
932
933<p></p>
934<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
935<td align="left"><b>
936<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
937<a name="prop">Property Tasks</a>
938</font></b></td>
939<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
940<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
941</font>
942</table>
943<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
944 <tr valign="top">
945 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
946 <td><b>Description</b></td>
947 </tr>
948
949 <tr valign="top">
950 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/available.html">Available</a></td>
951 <td><p>Sets a property if a specified file, directory, class in the
952 classpath, or JVM system resource is available at runtime.</p></td>
953 </tr>
954
955 <tr valign="top">
956 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/basename.html">Basename</a></td>
957 <td><p>Sets a property to the last element of a specified path.
958 </tr>
959
960 <tr valign="top">
961 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/buildnumber.html">BuildNumber</a></td>
962 <td><p>Task that can be used to track build numbers.
963 </tr>
964
965 <tr valign="top">
966 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/condition.html">Condition</a></td>
967 <td><p>Sets a property if a certain condition holds true; this is a
968 generalization of <a href="CoreTasks/available.html">Available</a> and
969 <a href="CoreTasks/uptodate.html">Uptodate</a>.</p></td>
970 </tr>
971
972 <tr valign="top">
973 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/dirname.html">Dirname</a></td>
974 <td><p>Sets a property to the value of the specified file up to,
975 but not including, the last path element.
976 </tr>
977
978 <tr valign="top">
979 <td nowrap>
980 <a href="OptionalTasks/echoproperties.html">Echoproperties</a><br>
981
982 </td>
983 <td><p>Lists the current properties.</p></td>
984 </tr>
985
986 <tr valign="top">
987 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/loadfile.html">LoadFile</a></td>
988 <td><p>Loads a file into a property.</p></td>
989 </tr>
990
991 <tr valign="top">
992 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/loadproperties.html">LoadProperties</a></td>
993 <td><p>Load a file's contents as Ant properties. This task is
994 equivalent to using <code>&lt;property file=&quot;...&quot;/&gt;</code>
995 except that it supports nested <code>&lt;filterchain&gt;</code> elements,
996 and it cannot be specified outside a target.</p></td>
997 </tr>
998
999 <tr valign="top">
1000 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/makeurl.html">MakeURL</a></td>
1001 <td><p>Creates a URL (list) from a file/fileset or path</p></td>
1002 </tr>
1003
1004 <tr valign="top">
1005 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/pathconvert.html">PathConvert</a></td>
1006 <td><p>Converts a nested path, path reference, filelist reference, or
1007 fileset reference to the form usable on a specified platform and/or
1008 to a list of items separated by the specified separator and stores
1009 the result in the specified property.</p></td>
1010 </tr>
1011
1012 <tr valign="top">
1013 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/property.html">Property</a></td>
1014 <td><p>Sets a property (by name and value), or set of properties
1015 (from a file or resource) in the project.</p></td>
1016 </tr>
1017
1018 <tr valign="top">
1019 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/propertyfile.html">
1020 PropertyFile</a></td>
1021 <td><p>Creates or modifies property files. Useful when wanting to make
1022 unattended modifications to configuration files for application
1023 servers and applications. Typically used for things such as
1024 automatically generating a build number and saving it to a build
1025 properties file, or doing date manipulation.<p></td>
1026 </tr>
1027
1028 <tr valign="top">
1029 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/uptodate.html">Uptodate</a></td>
1030 <td><p>Sets a property if a given target file is newer than a set of
1031 source files.</p></td>
1032 </tr>
1033
1034 <tr valign="top">
1035 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/whichresource.html">Whichresource</a></td>
1036 <td><p>Find a class or resource.</p></td>
1037 </tr>
1038
1039 <tr valign="top">
1040 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/xmlproperty.html">XmlProperty</a></td>
1041 <td><p>Loads property values from a well-formed XML file.</p></td>
1042 </tr>
1043</table>
1044
1045<p></p>
1046<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
1047<td align="left"><b>
1048<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
1049<a name="remote">Remote Tasks</a>
1050</font></b></td>
1051<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
1052<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
1053</font>
1054</table>
1055<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
1056 <tr valign="top">
1057 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
1058 <td><b>Description</b></td>
1059 </tr>
1060
1061 <tr valign="top">
1062 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/ftp.html">FTP</a></td>
1063 <td><p>Implements a basic FTP client that can send, receive,
1064 list, and delete files, and create directories.</p></td>
1065 </tr>
1066
1067 <tr valign="top">
1068 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/rexec.html">Rexec</a></td>
1069 <td><p>Task to automate a remote rexec session.</p></td>
1070 </tr>
1071
1072 <tr valign="top">
1073 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/scp.html">Scp</a></td>
1074 <td><p>Copy files to or from a remote server using SSH.</p></td>
1075 </tr>
1076
1077 <tr valign="top">
1078 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/setproxy.html">setproxy</a></td>
1079 <td><p>Sets Java's web proxy properties, so that tasks and code run
1080 in the same JVM can have through-the-firewall access to remote web sites.</p></td>
1081 </tr>
1082
1083 <tr valign="top">
1084 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/sshexec.html">Sshexec</a></td>
1085 <td><p>Execute a command on a remote server using SSH.</p></td>
1086 </tr>
1087
1088 <tr valign="top">
1089 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/telnet.html">Telnet</a></td>
1090 <td><p>Task to automate a remote <i>telnet</i> session. This task uses
1091 nested <code>&lt;read&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;write&gt;</code> tags
1092 to indicate strings to wait for and specify text to send.</p></td>
1093 </tr>
1094
1095</table>
1096
1097<p></p>
1098<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
1099<td align="left"><b>
1100<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
1101<a name="scm">SCM Tasks</a>
1102</font></b></td>
1103<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
1104<td align="right"><b><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></b></td>
1105</font>
1106</table>
1107<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
1108 <tr valign="top">
1109 <td nowrap><b>Task Name</b></td>
1110 <td><b>Description</b></td>
1111 </tr>
1112
1113 <tr valign="top">
1114 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/cvs.html">Cvs</a></td>
1115 <td><p>Handles packages/modules retrieved from a
1116 <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/" target="_top">CVS</a>
1117 repository.</p></td>
1118 </tr>
1119
1120 <tr valign="top">
1121 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/changelog.html">CvsChangeLog</a></td>
1122 <td><p>Generates an XML report of the changes recorded in a
1123 <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/" target="_top">CVS</a>
1124 repository.</p></td>
1125 </tr>
1126
1127 <tr valign="top">
1128 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/cvspass.html">CVSPass</a></td>
1129 <td><p>Adds entries to a .cvspass file. Adding entries to this file
1130 has the same affect as a <i>cvs login</i> command.</p></td>
1131 </tr>
1132
1133 <tr valign="top">
1134 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/cvstagdiff.html">CvsTagDiff</a></td>
1135 <td><p>Generates an XML-formatted report file of the changes between
1136 two tags or dates recorded in a <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/"
1137 target="_top">CVS</a> repository.</p></td>
1138 </tr>
1139
1140 <tr valign="top">
1141 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/clearcase.html">ClearCase</a></td>
1142 <td><p>Tasks to perform the ClearCase cleartool <i>checkin</i>, <i>checkout</i>,
1143 <i>uncheckout</i>, <i>update</i>, <i>lock</i>, <i>unlock</i>, <i>mklbtype</i>, <i>rmtype</i>, <i>mklabel</i>, <i>mkattr</i>, <i>mkdir</i>, <i>mkelem</i>, and <i>mkbl</i> commands.</p></td>
1144 </tr>
1145
1146 <tr valign="top">
1147 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/ccm.html">Continuus/Synergy</a></td>
1148 <td><p>Tasks to perform the Continuus <i>ccmcheckin</i>,
1149 <i>ccmcheckout</i>, <i>ccmcheckintask</i>, <i>ccmreconfigure</i>, and
1150 <i>ccmcreateTask</i> commands.</p></td>
1151 </tr>
1152
1153 <tr valign="top">
1154 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/vss.html">
1155 Microsoft Visual SourceSafe</a></td>
1156 <td><p>Tasks to perform the Visual SourceSafe <i>vssget</i>,
1157 <i>vsslabel</i>, <i>vsshistory</i>, <i>vsscheckin</i>,
1158 <i>vsscheckout</i>, <i>vssadd</i>, <i>vsscp</i>, and <i>vsscreate</i>
1159 commands.</p></td>
1160 </tr>
1161
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1163 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/perforce.html">Perforce</a></td>
1164 <td><p>Tasks to perform the Perforce <i>p4sync</i>, <i>p4change</i>,
1165 <i>p4edit</i>, <i>p4submit</i>, <i>p4have</i>, <i>p4label</i>,
1166 <i>p4counter</i>, <i>p4reopen</i>, <i>p4revert</i>, and <i>p4add</i>
1167 commands.</p></td>
1168 </tr>
1169
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1171 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/pvcstask.html">Pvcs</a></td>
1172 <td><p>Allows the user extract the latest edition of the source code
1173 from a PVCS repository.</p></td>
1174 </tr>
1175
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1177 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/sos.html">SourceOffSite</a></td>
1178 <td><p>Tasks to perform the SourceOffSite <i>sosget</i>, <i>soslabel</i>,
1179 <i>soscheckin</i>, and <i>soscheckout</i> commands.</p></td>
1180 </tr>
1181
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1183 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/starteam.html">StarTeam</a></td>
1184 <td><p>Tasks to perform the StarTeam <i>stcheckout</i>, <i>stcheckin</i>,
1185 <i>stlabel</i>, and <i>stlist</i> commands. The
1186 <a href="OptionalTasks/starteam.html#starteam">Starteam</a> task
1187 is deprecated; use
1188 <a href="OptionalTasks/starteam.html#stcheckout">STCheckout</a>
1189 instead.</p></td>
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1210 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/junit.html">Junit</a></td>
1211 <td><p>Runs tests from the <a href="http://www.junit.org">Junit</a>
1212 testing framework. This task has been tested with JUnit 3.0 up to
1213 JUnit 3.7; it won't work with versions prior to JUnit 3.0.</p></td>
1214 </tr>
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1217 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/junitreport.html">JunitReport</a></td>
1218 <td><p>Merges the individual XML files generated by the
1219 <a href="OptionalTasks/junit.html">Junit</a> task and applies a
1220 stylesheet on the resulting merged document to provide a browsable
1221 report of the testcases results.</p></td>
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