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10<h2><a name="top"></a>Overview of Ant Tasks</h2>
11
12<p>Given the large number of tasks available with Ant, it may be
13difficult to get an overall view of what each task can do. The following
14tables provide a short description of each task and a link to the complete
15documentation.</p>
16
17<a href="#archive">Archive Tasks</a><br>
18<a href="#audit">Audit/Coverage Tasks</a><br>
19<a href="#compile">Compile Tasks</a><br>
20<a href="#deploy">Deployment Tasks</a><br>
21<a href="#doc">Documentation Tasks</a><br>
22<a href="#ejb">EJB Tasks</a><br>
23<a href="#exec">Execution Tasks</a><br>
24<a href="#file">File Tasks</a><br>
25<a href="#extensions">Java2 Extensions Tasks</a><br>
26<a href="#log">Logging Tasks</a><br>
27<a href="#mail">Mail Tasks</a><br>
28<a href="#misc">Miscellaneous Tasks</a><br>
29<a href="#net">.NET Tasks</a><br>
30<a href="#preproc">Pre-process Tasks</a><br>
31<a href="#prop">Property Tasks</a><br>
32<a href="#remote">Remote Tasks</a><br>
33<a href="#scm">SCM Tasks</a><br>
34<a href="#testing">Testing Tasks</a><br>
35<a href="#vaj">Visual Age for Java Tasks</a><br>
36
37
38<p></p>
39<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
40<th align="left">
41<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
42<a name="archive">Archive Tasks</a></th>
43</font>
44<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
45<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
46</font>
47</table>
48<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
49 <tr valign="top">
50 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
51 <th nowrap>Description</th>
52 </tr>
53
54 <tr valign="top">
55 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/unpack.html">BUnzip2</a></td>
56 <td><p>Expands a file packed using GZip or BZip2.</p></td>
57 </tr>
58
59 <tr valign="top">
60 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/pack.html">BZip2</a></td>
61 <td><p>Packs a file using the GZip or BZip2 algorithm. This task
62 does not do any dependency checking; the output file is always
63 generated</p></td>
64 </tr>
65
66 <tr valign="top">
67 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/cab.html">Cab</a></td>
68 <td><p>Creates Microsoft CAB archive files. It is invoked
69 similar to the <a href="CoreTasks/jar.html">Jar</a> or
70 <a href="CoreTasks/zip.html">Zip</a> tasks. This task will work on
71 Windows using the external <i>cabarc</i> tool (provided by Microsoft),
72 which must be located in your executable path.</p></td>
73 </tr>
74
75 <tr valign="top">
76 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/ear.html">Ear</a></td>
77 <td><p>An extension of the <a href="CoreTasks/jar.html">Jar</a> task with
78 special treatment for files that should end up in an
79 Enterprise Application archive.</p></td>
80 </tr>
81
82 <tr valign="top">
83 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/gunzip.html">GUnzip</a></td>
84 <td><p>Expands a GZip file.</p></td>
85 </tr>
86
87 <tr valign="top">
88 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/gzip.html">GZip</a></td>
89 <td><p>GZips a set of files.</p></td>
90 </tr>
91
92 <tr valign="top">
93 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/jar.html">Jar</a></td>
94 <td><p>Jars a set of files.</p></td>
95 </tr>
96
97 <tr valign="top">
98 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/jlink.html">Jlink</a></td>
99 <td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the <code>zipfileset</code>
100 and <code>zipgroupfileset</code> attributes of the
101 <a href="CoreTasks/jar.html">Jar</a> or
102 <a href="CoreTasks/zip.html">Zip</a> tasks instead.</p></td>
103 </tr>
104
105 <tr valign="top">
106 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/manifest.html">Manifest</a></td>
107 <td><p>Creates a manifest file.</p></td>
108 </tr>
109
110 <tr valign="top">
111 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/rpm.html">Rpm</a></td>
112 <td><p>Invokes the <i>rpm</i> executable to build a Linux installation
113 file. This task currently only works on Linux or other Unix platforms
114 with RPM support.</p></td>
115 </tr>
116
117 <tr valign="top">
118 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/signjar.html">SignJar</a></td>
119 <td><p>Signs a jar or zip file with the <i>javasign</i>
120 command-line tool.</p></td>
121 </tr>
122
123 <tr valign="top">
124 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/tar.html">Tar</a></td>
125 <td><p>Creates a tar archive.</p></td>
126 </tr>
127
128 <tr valign="top">
129 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/unzip.html">Unjar</a></td>
130 <td><p>Unzips a jarfile.</p></td>
131 </tr>
132
133 <tr valign="top">
134 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/untar.html">Untar</a></td>
135 <td><p>Untars a tarfile.</p></td>
136 </tr>
137
138 <tr valign="top">
139 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/unzip.html">Unwar</a></td>
140 <td><p>Unzips a warfile.</p></td>
141 </tr>
142
143 <tr valign="top">
144 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/unzip.html">Unzip</a></td>
145 <td><p>Unzips a zipfile.</p></td>
146 </tr>
147
148 <tr valign="top">
149 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/war.html">War</a></td>
150 <td><p>An extension of the <a href="CoreTasks/jar.html">Jar</a> task
151 with special treatment for files that should end up in the
152 <code>WEB-INF/lib</code>, <code>WEB-INF/classes</code>, or
153 <code>WEB-INF</code> directories of the Web Application Archive.</p></td>
154 </tr>
155
156 <tr valign="top">
157 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/zip.html">Zip</a></td>
158 <td><p>Creates a zipfile.</p></td>
159 </tr>
160</table>
161
162<p></p>
163<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
164<th align="left">
165<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
166<a name="audit">Audit/Coverage Tasks</a></th>
167</font>
168<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
169<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
170</font>
171</table>
172<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
173 <tr valign="top">
174 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
175 <th>Description</th>
176 </tr>
177
178 <tr valign="top">
179 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/jdepend.html">JDepend</a></td>
180 <td><p>Invokes the <a href="http://www.clarkware.com/software/JDepend.html">
181 JDepend</a> parser. This parser &quot;traverses a set of Java source-file
182 directories and generates design-quality metrics for each Java
183 package&quot;.</p></td>
184 </tr>
185
186 <tr valign="top">
187 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/jpcoverage.html">JProbe</a></td>
188 <td><p>These tasks run the tools from the
189 <a href="http://www.sitraka.com">JProbe</a> suite. This task was written
190 using JProbe Suite Server Side 3.0.</p></td>
191 </tr>
192
193 <tr valign="top">
194 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/mmetrics.html">MMetrics</a></td>
195 <td><p>Computes the metrics of a set of Java source files, using the
196 <a href="http://www.webgain.com/products/quality_analyzer/">
197 Metamata Metrics/WebGain Quality Analyzer</a> source-code analyzer,
198 and writes the results to an XML file.</p></td>
199 </tr>
200
201 <tr valign="top">
202 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/maudit.html">Maudit</a></td>
203 <td><p>Performs static analysis on a set of Java source-code and
204 byte-code files, using the
205 <a href="http://www.webgain.com/products/quality_analyzer/">
206 Metamata Metrics/WebGain Quality Analyzer</a> source-code
207 analyzer.</p></td>
208 </tr>
209</table>
210
211<p></p>
212<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
213<th align="left">
214<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
215<a name="compile">Compile Tasks</a></th>
216</font>
217<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
218<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
219</font>
220</table>
221<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
222 <tr valign="top">
223 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
224 <th>Description</th>
225 </tr>
226
227 <tr valign="top">
228 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/depend.html">Depend</a></td>
229 <td><p>Determines which classfiles are out-of-date with respect to their
230 source, removing the classfiles of any other classes that depend on the
231 out-of-date classes, forcing the re-compile of the removed classfiles.
232 Typically used in conjunction with the
233 <a href="CoreTasks/javac.html">Javac</a> task.</p></td>
234
235 <tr valign="top">
236 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/javac.html">Javac</a></td>
237 <td><p>Compiles the specified source file(s) within the running
238 (Ant) VM, or in another VM if the <code>fork</code> attribute is
239 specified.</p></td>
240 </tr>
241
242 <tr valign="top">
243 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/jspc.html">JspC</a></td>
244 <td><p>Runs the JSP compiler. It can be used to precompile JSP pages
245 for fast initial invocation of JSP pages, deployment on a server without
246 the full JDK installed, or simply to syntax-check the pages without
247 deploying them. The <a href="CoreTasks/javac.html">Javac</a> task
248 can be used to compile the generated Java source.
249 (For Weblogic JSP compiles,
250 see the <a href="OptionalTasks/wljspc.html">Wljspc</a> task.)</p></td>
251 </tr>
252
253 <tr valign="top">
254 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/netrexxc.html">NetRexxC</a></td>
255 <td><p>Compiles a
256 <a href="http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx" target="_top">NetRexx</a>
257 source tree within the running (Ant) VM.</p></td>
258 </tr>
259
260 <tr valign="top">
261 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/rmic.html">Rmic</a></td>
262 <td><p>Runs the <i>rmic</i> compiler on the specified file(s).</p></td>
263 </tr>
264
265 <tr valign="top">
266 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/wljspc.html">Wljspc</a></td>
267 <td><p>Compiles JSP pages using Weblogic's JSP compiler,
268 <i>weblogic.jspc</i>. (For non-Weblogic JSP compiles, see the
269 <a href="OptionalTasks/jspc.html">JspC</a> task.</p></td>
270 </tr>
271
272</table>
273
274<p></p>
275<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
276<th align="left">
277<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
278<a name="deploy">Deployment Tasks</a></th>
279</font>
280<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
281<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
282</font>
283</table>
284<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
285 <tr valign="top">
286 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
287 <th>Description</th>
288 </tr>
289
290 <tr valign="top">
291 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/serverdeploy.html">ServerDeploy</a></td>
292 <td><p>Task to run a &quot;hot&quot; deployment tool for vendor-specific
293 J2EE server.
294 </p></td>
295 </tr>
296</table>
297
298<p></p>
299<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
300<th align="left">
301<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
302<a name="doc">Documentation Tasks</a></th>
303</font>
304<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
305<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
306</font>
307</table>
308<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
309 <tr valign="top">
310 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
311 <th>Description</th>
312 </tr>
313
314 <tr valign="top">
315 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/javadoc.html">Javadoc/<i>Javadoc2</i></a></td>
316 <td><p>Generates code documentation using the <i>javadoc</i> tool.
317 The Javadoc2 task is deprecated; use the Javadoc task instead.</p></td>
318 </tr>
319
320 <tr valign="top">
321 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/stylebook.html">Stylebook</a></td>
322 <td><p>Executes the Apache Stylebook documentation generator.
323 Unlike the command-line version of this tool, all three arguments
324 are required to run the Stylebook task.</p></td>
325 </tr>
326</table>
327
328<p></p>
329<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
330<th align="left">
331<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
332<a name="ejb">EJB Tasks</a></th>
333</font>
334<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
335<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
336</font>
337</table>
338<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
339 <tr valign="top">
340 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
341 <th>Description</th>
342 </tr>
343
344 <tr valign="top">
345 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/ejb.html">EJB Tasks</a></td>
346 <td><p>(See the documentation describing the EJB tasks.)</p></td>
347 </tr>
348</table>
349
350<p></p>
351<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
352<th align="left">
353<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
354<a name="exec">Execution Tasks</a></th>
355</font>
356<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
357<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
358</font>
359</table>
360<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
361 <tr valign="top">
362 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
363 <th>Description</th>
364 </tr>
365
366 <tr valign="top">
367 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/ant.html">Ant</a></td>
368 <td><p>Runs Ant on a supplied buildfile, optionally
369 passing properties (with possibly new values).
370 This task can be used to build sub-projects.</p></td>
371 </tr>
372
373 <tr valign="top">
374 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/antcall.html">AntCall</a></td>
375 <td><p>Runs another target within the same buildfile, optionally
376 passing properties (with possibly new values).</p></td>
377 </tr>
378
379 <tr valign="top">
380 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/apply.html">Apply/<i>ExecOn</i></a></td>
381 <td><p>Executes a system command. When the <code>os</code> attribute is
382 specified, the command is only executed when Ant is run on one
383 of the specified operating systems.</p></td>
384 </tr>
385
386 <tr valign="top">
387 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/dependset.html">Dependset</a></td>
388 <td><p>This task compares a set of source files with a set of target
389 files. If any of the source files is newer than any of
390 the target files, all the target files are removed. </p></td>
391 </tr>
392
393 <tr valign="top">
394 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/exec.html">Exec</a></td>
395 <td><p>Executes a system command. When the <code>os</code> attribute
396 is specified, the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of
397 the specified operating systems.</p></td>
398 </tr>
399
400 <tr valign="top">
401 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/java.html">Java</a></td>
402 <td><p>Executes a Java class within the running (Ant) VM, or in
403 another VM if the <code>fork</code> attribute is specified.</p></td>
404 </tr>
405
406 <tr valign="top">
407 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/parallel.html">Parallel</a></td>
408 <td><p>A container task that can contain other Ant tasks.
409 Each nested task specified within the <code>&lt;parallel&gt;</code>
410 tag will be executed in its own thread.</p></td>
411 </tr>
412
413 <tr valign="top">
414 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/sequential.html">Sequential</a></td>
415 <td><p>A container task that can contain other Ant tasks.
416 The nested tasks are simply executed in sequence. Its primary use is
417 to support the sequential execution of a subset of tasks within
418 the <code>&lt;parallel&gt;</code> tag.</p></td>
419 </tr>
420
421 <tr valign="top">
422 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/sleep.html">Sleep</a></td>
423 <td><p> A task for suspending execution for a specified period of time.
424 Useful when a build or deployment process requires an interval between
425 tasks.</p></td>
426 </tr>
427
428 <tr valign="top">
429 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/subant.html">Subant</a></td>
430 <td><p> Calls a given target for all defined sub-builds. This is an extension of ant for bulk project execution.</p></td>
431 </tr>
432
433 <tr valign="top">
434 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/waitfor.html">Waitfor</a></td>
435 <td><p>Blocks execution until a set of specified conditions become true.
436 This task is intended to be used with the
437 <a href="CoreTasks/parallel.html">Parallel</a> task to synchronize
438 a set of processes.</p></td>
439 </tr>
440</table>
441
442<p></p>
443<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
444<th align="left">
445<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
446<a name="file">File Tasks</a></th>
447</font>
448<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
449<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
450</font>
451</table>
452<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
453 <tr valign="top">
454 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
455 <th>Description</th>
456 </tr>
457
458 <tr valign="top">
459 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/attrib.html">Attrib</a></td>
460 <td><p>Changes the permissions and/or attributes of a file or all
461 files inside the specified directories. Currently, it has effect
462 only under Windows.</p></td>
463 </tr>
464
465 <tr valign="top">
466 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/checksum.html">Checksum</a></td>
467 <td><p>Generates a checksum for a file or set of files. This task can
468 also be used to perform checksum verifications.</p></td>
469 </tr>
470
471 <tr valign="top">
472 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/chgrp.html">Chgrp</a></td>
473 <td><p>Changes the group ownership of a file or all files inside
474 the specified directories. Currently, it has effect only under
475 Unix.</p></td>
476 </tr>
477
478 <tr valign="top">
479 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/chmod.html">Chmod</a></td>
480 <td><p>Changes the permissions of a file or all files inside the
481 specified directories. Currently, it has effect only under Unix.
482 The permissions are also UNIX style, like the arguments for the
483 <i>chmod</i> command.</p></td>
484 </tr>
485
486 <tr valign="top">
487 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/chown.html">Chown</a></td>
488 <td><p>Changes the owner of a file or all files inside the
489 specified directories. Currently, it has effect only under
490 Unix.</p></td>
491 </tr>
492
493 <tr valign="top">
494 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/concat.html">Concat</a></td>
495 <td><p>Concatenates multiple files into a single one or to Ant's
496 logging system.</p></td>
497 </tr>
498
499 <tr valign="top">
500 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/copy.html">Copy</a></td>
501 <td><p>Copies a file or Fileset to a new file or directory.</p></td>
502 </tr>
503
504 <tr valign="top">
505 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/copydir.html"><i>Copydir</i></a></td>
506 <td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the
507 <a href="CoreTasks/copy.html">Copy</a> task instead.</p></td>
508 </tr>
509
510 <tr valign="top">
511 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/copyfile.html"><i>Copyfile</i></a></td>
512 <td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the
513 <a href="CoreTasks/copy.html">Copy</a> task instead.</p></td>
514 </tr>
515
516 <tr valign="top">
517 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/delete.html">Delete</a></td>
518 <td><p>Deletes either a single file, all files and sub-directories
519 in a specified directory, or a set of files specified by one or more
520 <a href="CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s.</p></td>
521 </tr>
522
523 <tr valign="top">
524 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/deltree.html"><i>Deltree</i></a></td>
525 <td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the
526 <a href="CoreTasks/delete.html">Delete</a> task instead.</p></td>
527 </tr>
528
529 <tr valign="top">
530 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/filter.html">Filter</a></td>
531 <td><p>Sets a token filter for this project, or reads multiple token
532 filters from a specified file and sets these as filters. Token filters
533 are used by all tasks that perform file-copying operations.</p></td>
534 </tr>
535
536 <tr valign="top">
537 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/fixcrlf.html">FixCRLF</a></td>
538 <td><p>Modifies a file to add or remove tabs, carriage returns, linefeeds,
539 and EOF characters.</p></td>
540 </tr>
541
542 <tr valign="top">
543 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/get.html">Get</a></td>
544 <td><p>Gets a file from a URL.</p></td>
545 </tr>
546
547 <tr valign="top">
548 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/mkdir.html">Mkdir</a></td>
549 <td><p>Creates a directory. Non-existent parent directories are created,
550 when necessary.</p></td>
551 </tr>
552
553 <tr valign="top">
554 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/move.html">Move</a></td>
555 <td><p>Moves a file to a new file or directory, or a set(s) of file(s) to
556 a new directory.</p></td>
557 </tr>
558
559 <tr valign="top">
560 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/patch.html">Patch</a></td>
561 <td><p>Applies a &quot;diff&quot; file to originals.</p></td>
562 </tr>
563
564 <tr valign="top">
565 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/rename.html"><i>Rename</i></a></td>
566 <td><p><i>Deprecated.</i> Use the <a href="CoreTasks/move.html">Move</a>
567 task instead.</p></td>
568 </tr>
569
570 <tr valign="top">
571 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/renameextensions.html">
572 <i>RenameExtensions</i></a></td>
573 <td><p><i>Deprecated</i>. Use the <a href="CoreTasks/move.html">Move</a>
574 task with a <a href="CoreTypes/mapper.html#glob-mapper">glob mapper</a>
575 instead.</p></td>
576 </tr>
577
578 <tr valign="top">
579 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/replace.html">Replace</a></td>
580 <td><p>Replace is a directory-based task for replacing the occurrence
581 of a given string with another string in selected file.</p></td>
582 </tr>
583
584 <tr valign="top">
585 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/replaceregexp.html">
586 ReplaceRegExp</a></td>
587 <td><p>Directory-based task for replacing the occurrence of a given
588 regular expression with a substitution pattern in a file or set of
589 files.</p></td>
590 </tr>
591
592 <tr valign="top">
593 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/sync.html">Sync</a></td>
594 <td><p>Synchronize two directory trees.</p></td>
595 </tr>
596
597 <tr valign="top">
598 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/tempfile.html">Tempfile</a></td>
599 <td><p>Generates a name for a new temporary file and sets the specified
600 property to that name.</p></td>
601 </tr>
602
603 <tr valign="top">
604 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/touch.html">Touch</a></td>
605 <td><p>Changes the modification time of a file and possibly creates it at
606 the same time.</p></td>
607 </tr>
608</table>
609
610<p></p>
611<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
612<th align="left">
613<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
614<a name="extensions">Java2 Extensions Tasks</a></th>
615</font>
616<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
617<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
618</font>
619</table>
620<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
621 <tr valign="top">
622 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
623 <th>Description</th>
624 </tr>
625
626 <tr valign="top">
627 <td nowrap>
628 <a href="OptionalTasks/jarlib-available.html">Jarlib-available</a></td>
629 <td><p>Check whether an extension is present in a FileSet or an
630 ExtensionSet. If the extension is present, the specified property is
631 set.</p>
632 </td>
633 </tr>
634
635 <tr valign="top">
636 <td nowrap>
637 <a href="OptionalTasks/jarlib-display.html">Jarlib-display</a></td>
638 <td><p>Display the &quot;Optional Package&quot; and
639 &quot;Package Specification&quot; information contained within the
640 specified jars.</p>
641 </td>
642 </tr>
643
644 <tr valign="top">
645 <td nowrap>
646 <a href="OptionalTasks/jarlib-manifest.html">Jarlib-manifest</a></td>
647 <td><p>Task to generate a manifest that declares all the dependencies
648 in manifest. The dependencies are determined by looking in the
649 specified path and searching for Extension/&quot;Optional Package&quot;
650 specifications in the manifests of the jars.</p>
651 </td>
652 </tr>
653
654 <tr valign="top">
655 <td nowrap>
656 <a href="OptionalTasks/jarlib-resolve.html">Jarlib-resolve</a></td>
657 <td><p>Try to locate a jar to satisfy an extension, and place the
658 location of the jar into the specified property.</p>
659 </td>
660 </tr>
661</table>
662
663<p></p>
664<p></p>
665<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
666<th align="left">
667<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
668<a name="log">Logging Tasks</a></th>
669</font>
670<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
671<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
672</font>
673</table>
674<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
675 <tr valign="top">
676 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
677 <th>Description</th>
678 </tr>
679
680 <tr valign="top">
681 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/recorder.html">Record</a></td>
682 <td><p>Runs a listener that records the logging output of the
683 build-process events to a file. Several recorders can exist
684 at the same time. Each recorder is associated with a file.</p></td>
685 </tr>
686</table>
687
688<p></p>
689<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
690<th align="left">
691<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
692<a name="mail">Mail Tasks</a></th>
693</font>
694<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
695<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
696</font>
697</table>
698<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
699 <tr valign="top">
700 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
701 <th>Description</th>
702 </tr>
703
704 <tr valign="top">
705 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/mail.html">Mail</a></td>
706 <td><p>A task to send SMTP email.</p></td>
707 </tr>
708
709 <tr valign="top">
710 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/mimemail.html">MimeMail</a></td>
711 <td><p><i>Deprecated</i>. Use the <a href="CoreTasks/mail.html">Mail</a>
712 task instead.</p></td>
713 </tr>
714
715</table>
716
717<p></p>
718<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
719<th align="left">
720<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
721<a name="misc">Miscellaneous Tasks</a></th>
722</font>
723<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
724<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
725</font>
726</table>
727<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
728 <tr valign="top">
729 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
730 <th>Description</th>
731 </tr>
732
733 <tr valign="top">
734 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/defaultexcludes.html">Defaultexcludes</a></td>
735 <td><p>Modify the list of default exclude patterns from within
736 your build file.</p></td>
737 </tr>
738
739 <tr valign="top">
740 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/echo.html">Echo</a></td>
741 <td><p>Echoes text to <code>System.out</code> or to a file.</p></td>
742 </tr>
743
744 <tr valign="top">
745 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/fail.html">Fail</a></td>
746 <td><p>Exits the current build by throwing a BuildException,
747 optionally printing additional information.</p></td>
748 </tr>
749
750 <tr valign="top">
751 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/genkey.html">GenKey</a></td>
752 <td><p>Generates a key in keystore.</p></td>
753 </tr>
754
755 <tr valign="top">
756 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/input.html">Input</a></td>
757 <td><p>Allows user interaction during the build process by displaying a
758 message and reading a line of input from the console.</p></td>
759 </tr>
760
761 <tr valign="top">
762 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/script.html">Script</a></td>
763 <td><p>Executes a script in a
764 <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/"
765 target="_top">Apache BSF</a>-supported language.</p></td>
766 </tr>
767
768 <tr valign="top">
769 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/sound.html">Sound</a></td>
770 <td><p>Plays a sound file at the end of the build, according to whether
771 the build failed or succeeded.</p></td>
772 </tr>
773
774 <tr valign="top">
775 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/splash.html">Splash</a></td>
776 <td><p>Displays a splash screen.</p></td>
777 </tr>
778
779 <tr valign="top">
780 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/sql.html">Sql</a></td>
781 <td><p>Executes a series of SQL statements via JDBC to a database.
782 Statements can either be read in from a text file using the
783 <code>src</code> attribute, or from between the enclosing SQL
784 tags.</p></td>
785 </tr>
786
787 <tr valign="top">
788 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/taskdef.html">Taskdef</a></td>
789 <td><p>Adds a task definition to the current project, such that this
790 new task can be used in the current project.</p></td>
791 </tr>
792
793 <tr valign="top">
794 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/tstamp.html">TStamp</a></td>
795 <td><p>Sets the <code>DSTAMP</code>, <code>TSTAMP</code>, and
796 <code>TODAY</code> properties in the current project, based on
797 the current date and time.</p></td>
798 </tr>
799
800 <tr valign="top">
801 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/typedef.html">Typedef</a></td>
802 <td><p>Adds a data-type definition to the current project, such that this
803 new type can be used in the current project.</p></td>
804 </tr>
805
806 <tr valign="top">
807 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/xmlvalidate.html">XmlValidate</a></td>
808 <td><p>Checks that XML files are valid (or only well-formed). This task
809 uses the XML parser that is currently used by Ant by default, but any SAX1/2
810 parser can be specified, if needed.</p></td>
811 </tr>
812</table>
813
814<p></p>
815<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
816<th align="left">
817<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
818<a name="net">.NET Tasks</a></th>
819</font>
820<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
821<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
822</font>
823</table>
824<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
825 <tr valign="top">
826 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
827 <th>Description</th>
828 </tr>
829
830 <tr valign="top">
831 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/dotnet.html">.NET Tasks</a></td>
832 <td><p>(See the documentation describing the .NET tasks.)</p></td>
833 </tr>
834</table>
835
836<p></p>
837<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
838<th align="left">
839<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
840<a name="preproc">Pre-process Tasks</a></th>
841</font>
842<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
843<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
844</font>
845</table>
846<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
847 <tr valign="top">
848 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
849 <th>Description</th>
850 </tr>
851
852 <tr valign="top">
853 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/antlr.html">ANTLR</a></td>
854 <td><p>Invokes the <a HREF="http://www.antlr.org/" target="_top">ANTLR</a>
855 Translator generator on a grammar file.</p></td>
856 </tr>
857
858 <tr valign="top">
859 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/antstructure.html">AntStructure</a></td>
860 <td><p>Generates a DTD for Ant buildfiles that contains information
861 about all tasks currently known to Ant.</p></td>
862 </tr>
863
864 <tr valign="top">
865 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/icontract.html">IContract</a></td>
866 <td><p>Instruments Java classes using the
867 <a href="http://www.reliable-systems.com/tools/">iContract</a> DBC
868 preprocessor. This task can generate a properties file for
869 <a href="http://home.sol.no/~hellesoy/icplus.html">iControl</a>,
870 a graphical user interface that lets you turn on/off assertions.</p></td>
871 </tr>
872
873 <tr valign="top">
874 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/import.html">Import</a></td>
875 <td><p>Import another build file and potentially override targets
876 in it with targets of your own.</p></td>
877 </tr>
878
879 <tr valign="top">
880 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/javacc.html">JavaCC</a></td>
881 <td><p>Invokes the
882 <a HREF="http://javacc.dev.java.net/" target="_top">
883 JavaCC</a> compiler-compiler on a grammar file.</p></td>
884 </tr>
885
886 <tr valign="top">
887 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/javah.html">Javah</a></td>
888 <td><p>Generates JNI headers from a Java class.</p></td>
889 </tr>
890
891 <tr valign="top">
892 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/jjdoc.html">JJDoc</a></td>
893 <td><p>Invokes the <a href="http://javacc.dev.java.net/">
894 JJDoc</a> documentation generator for the JavaCC compiler-compiler.
895 JJDoc takes a JavaCC parser specification and produces documentation
896 for the BNF grammar. It can operate in three modes, determined by
897 command line options. This task only invokes JJDoc if the grammar file
898 is newer than the generated BNF grammar documentation.</p></td>
899 </tr>
900
901 <tr valign="top">
902 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/jjtree.html">JJTree</a></td>
903 <td><p>Invokes the <a href="http://javacc.dev.java.net/">
904 JJTree</a> preprocessor for the JavaCC compiler-compiler. It inserts
905 parse-tree building actions at various places in the JavaCC source that
906 it generates. The output of JJTree is run through JavaCC to create the
907 parser. This task only invokes JJTree if the grammar file is newer than
908 the generated JavaCC file.</p></td>
909 </tr>
910
911 <tr valign="top">
912 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/macrodef.html">Macrodef</a></td>
913 <td><p>Define a new task as a macro built-up upon other tasks.</p></td>
914 </tr>
915
916 <tr valign="top">
917 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/mparse.html">MParse</a></td>
918 <td><p>Invokes the Metamata <a HREF="http://www.metamata.com/parse.html">
919 MParse</a> compiler-compiler on a grammar file.</p></td>
920 </tr>
921
922 <tr valign="top">
923 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/native2ascii.html">
924 Native2Ascii</a></td>
925 <td><p>Converts files from native encodings to ASCII with escaped Unicode.
926 A common usage is to convert source files maintained in a native
927 operating system encoding to ASCII, prior to compilation.</p></td>
928 </tr>
929
930 <tr valign="top">
931 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/presetdef.html">Presetdef</a></td>
932 <td><p>Define a new task by instrumenting an existing task with
933 default values for attributes or child elements.</p>
934 </tr>
935
936 <tr valign="top">
937 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/translate.html">Translate</a></td>
938 <td><p>Identifies keys in files, delimited by special tokens, and
939 translates them with values read from resource bundles.</p></td>
940 </tr>
941
942 <tr valign="top">
943 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/style.html">Xslt/Style</a></td>
944 <td><p>Processes a set of documents via XSLT.</p></td>
945 </tr>
946
947</table>
948
949<p></p>
950<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
951<th align="left">
952<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
953<a name="prop">Property Tasks</a></th>
954</font>
955<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
956<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
957</font>
958</table>
959<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
960 <tr valign="top">
961 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
962 <th>Description</th>
963 </tr>
964
965 <tr valign="top">
966 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/available.html">Available</a></td>
967 <td><p>Sets a property if a specified file, directory, class in the
968 classpath, or JVM system resource is available at runtime.</p></td>
969 </tr>
970
971 <tr valign="top">
972 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/basename.html">Basename</a></td>
973 <td><p>Sets a property to the last element of a specified path.
974 </tr>
975
976 <tr valign="top">
977 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/buildnumber.html">BuildNumber</a></td>
978 <td><p>Task that can be used to track build numbers.
979 </tr>
980
981 <tr valign="top">
982 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/condition.html">Condition</a></td>
983 <td><p>Sets a property if a certain condition holds true - this is a
984 generalization of <a href="CoreTasks/available.html">Available</a> and
985 <a href="CoreTasks/uptodate.html">Uptodate</a>.</p></td>
986 </tr>
987
988 <tr valign="top">
989 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/dirname.html">Dirname</a></td>
990 <td><p>Sets a property to the value of the specified file up to,
991 but not including, the last path element.
992 </tr>
993
994 <tr valign="top">
995 <td nowrap>
996 <a href="OptionalTasks/echoproperties.html">Echoproperties</a><br>
997
998 </td>
999 <td><p>Lists the current properties.</p></td>
1000 </tr>
1001
1002 <tr valign="top">
1003 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/loadfile.html">LoadFile</a></td>
1004 <td><p>Loads a file into a property.</p></td>
1005 </tr>
1006
1007 <tr valign="top">
1008 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/loadproperties.html">LoadProperties</a></td>
1009 <td><p>Load a file's contents as Ant properties. This task is
1010 equivalent to using <code>&lt;property file=&quot;...&quot;/&gt;</code>
1011 except that it supports nested <code>&lt;filterchain&gt;</code> elements,
1012 and it cannot be specified outside a target.</p></td>
1013 </tr>
1014
1015 <tr valign="top">
1016 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/pathconvert.html">PathConvert</a></td>
1017 <td><p>Converts a nested path, path reference, filelist reference, or
1018 fileset reference to the form usable on a specified platform and/or
1019 to a list of items separated by the specified separator and stores
1020 the result in the specified property.</p></td>
1021 </tr>
1022
1023 <tr valign="top">
1024 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/property.html">Property</a></td>
1025 <td><p>Sets a property (by name and value), or set of properties
1026 (from a file or resource) in the project.</p></td>
1027 </tr>
1028
1029 <tr valign="top">
1030 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/propertyfile.html">
1031 PropertyFile</a></td>
1032 <td><p>Creates or modifies property files. Useful when wanting to make
1033 unattended modifications to configuration files for application
1034 servers and applications. Typically used for things such as
1035 automatically generating a build number and saving it to a build
1036 properties file, or doing date manipulation.<p></td>
1037 </tr>
1038
1039 <tr valign="top">
1040 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/uptodate.html">Uptodate</a></td>
1041 <td><p>Sets a property if a given target file is newer than a set of
1042 source files.</p></td>
1043 </tr>
1044
1045 <tr valign="top">
1046 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/whichresource.html">Whichresource</a></td>
1047 <td><p>Find a class or resource.</p></td>
1048 </tr>
1049
1050 <tr valign="top">
1051 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/xmlproperty.html">XmlProperty</a></td>
1052 <td><p>Loads property values from a well-formed XML file.</p></td>
1053 </tr>
1054</table>
1055
1056<p></p>
1057<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
1058<th align="left">
1059<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
1060<a name="remote">Remote Tasks</a></th>
1061</font>
1062<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
1063<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
1064</font>
1065</table>
1066<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
1067 <tr valign="top">
1068 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
1069 <th>Description</th>
1070 </tr>
1071
1072 <tr valign="top">
1073 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/ftp.html">FTP</a></td>
1074 <td><p>Implements a basic FTP client that can send, receive,
1075 list, and delete files, and create directories.</p></td>
1076 </tr>
1077
1078 <tr valign="top">
1079 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/rexec.html">Rexec</a></td>
1080 <td><p>Task to automate a remote rexec session.</p></td>
1081 </tr>
1082
1083 <tr valign="top">
1084 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/scp.html">Scp</a></td>
1085 <td><p>Copy files to or from a remote server using SSH.</p></td>
1086 </tr>
1087
1088 <tr valign="top">
1089 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/setproxy.html">setproxy</a></td>
1090 <td><p>Sets Java's web proxy properties, so that tasks and code run
1091 in the same JVM can have through-the-firewall access to remote web sites.</p></td>
1092 </tr>
1093
1094 <tr valign="top">
1095 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/sshexec.html">Sshexec</a></td>
1096 <td><p>Execute a command on a remote server using SSH.</p></td>
1097 </tr>
1098
1099 <tr valign="top">
1100 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/telnet.html">Telnet</a></td>
1101 <td><p>Task to automate a remote <i>telnet</i> session. This task uses
1102 nested <code>&lt;read&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;write&gt;</code> tags
1103 to indicate strings to wait for and specify text to send.</p></td>
1104 </tr>
1105
1106</table>
1107
1108<p></p>
1109<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
1110<th align="left">
1111<font size="+0" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
1112<a name="scm">SCM Tasks</a></th>
1113</font>
1114<font size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
1115<th align="right"><a href="#top">[Back to top]</a></th>
1116</font>
1117</table>
1118<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
1119 <tr valign="top">
1120 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
1121 <th>Description</th>
1122 </tr>
1123
1124 <tr valign="top">
1125 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/cvs.html">Cvs</a></td>
1126 <td><p>Handles packages/modules retrieved from a
1127 <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/" target="_top">CVS</a>
1128 repository.</p></td>
1129 </tr>
1130
1131 <tr valign="top">
1132 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/changelog.html">CvsChangeLog</a></td>
1133 <td><p>Generates an XML report of the changes recorded in a
1134 <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/" target="_top">CVS</a>
1135 repository.</p></td>
1136 </tr>
1137
1138 <tr valign="top">
1139 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/cvspass.html">CVSPass</a></td>
1140 <td><p>Adds entries to a .cvspass file. Adding entries to this file
1141 has the same affect as a <i>cvs login</i> command.</p></td>
1142 </tr>
1143
1144 <tr valign="top">
1145 <td nowrap><a href="CoreTasks/cvstagdiff.html">CvsTagDiff</a></td>
1146 <td><p>Generates an XML-formatted report file of the changes between
1147 two tags or dates recorded in a <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/"
1148 target="_top">CVS</a> repository.</p></td>
1149 </tr>
1150
1151 <tr valign="top">
1152 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/clearcase.html">ClearCase</a></td>
1153 <td><p>Tasks to perform the ClearCase cleartool <i>checkin</i>, <i>checkout</i>,
1154 <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>
1155 </tr>
1156
1157 <tr valign="top">
1158 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/ccm.html">Continuus/Synergy</a></td>
1159 <td><p>Tasks to perform the Continuus <i>ccmcheckin</i>,
1160 <i>ccmcheckout</i>, <i>ccmcheckintask</i>, <i>ccmreconfigure</i>, and
1161 <i>ccmcreateTask</i> commands.</p></td>
1162 </tr>
1163
1164 <tr valign="top">
1165 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/vss.html">
1166 Microsoft Visual SourceSafe</a></td>
1167 <td><p>Tasks to perform the Visual SourceSafe <i>vssget</i>,
1168 <i>vsslabel</i>, <i>vsshistory</i>, <i>vsscheckin</i>,
1169 <i>vsscheckout</i>, <i>vssadd</i>, <i>vsscp</i>, and <i>vsscreate</i>
1170 commands.</p></td>
1171 </tr>
1172
1173 <tr valign="top">
1174 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/perforce.html">Perforce</a></td>
1175 <td><p>Tasks to perform the Perforce <i>p4sync</i>, <i>p4change</i>,
1176 <i>p4edit</i>, <i>p4submit</i>, <i>p4have</i>, <i>p4label</i>,
1177 <i>p4counter</i>, <i>p4reopen</i>, <i>p4revert</i>, and <i>p4add</i>
1178 commands.</p></td>
1179 </tr>
1180
1181 <tr valign="top">
1182 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/pvcstask.html">Pvcs</a></td>
1183 <td><p>Allows the user extract the latest edition of the source code
1184 from a PVCS repository.</p></td>
1185 </tr>
1186
1187 <tr valign="top">
1188 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/sos.html">SourceOffSite</a></td>
1189 <td><p>Tasks to perform the SourceOffSite <i>sosget</i>, <i>soslabel</i>,
1190 <i>soscheckin</i>, and <i>soscheckout</i> commands.</p></td>
1191 </tr>
1192
1193 <tr valign="top">
1194 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/starteam.html">StarTeam</a></td>
1195 <td><p>Tasks to perform the StarTeam <i>stcheckout</i>, <i>stcheckin</i>,
1196 <i>stlabel</i>, and <i>stlist</i> commands. The
1197 <a href="OptionalTasks/starteam.html#starteam">Starteam</a> task
1198 is deprecated; use
1199 <a href="OptionalTasks/starteam.html#stcheckout">STCheckout</a>
1200 instead.</p></td>
1201 </tr>
1202</table>
1203
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1215 <tr valign="top">
1216 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
1217 <th>Description</th>
1218 </tr>
1219
1220 <tr valign="top">
1221 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/junit.html">Junit</a></td>
1222 <td><p>Runs tests from the <a href="http://www.junit.org">Junit</a>
1223 testing framework. This task has been tested with JUnit 3.0 up to
1224 JUnit 3.7; it won't work with versions prior to JUnit 3.0.</p></td>
1225 </tr>
1226
1227 <tr valign="top">
1228 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/junitreport.html">JunitReport</a></td>
1229 <td><p>Merges the individual XML files generated by the
1230 <a href="OptionalTasks/junit.html">Junit</a> task and applies a
1231 stylesheet on the resulting merged document to provide a browsable
1232 report of the testcases results.</p></td>
1233 </tr>
1234
1235 <tr valign="top">
1236 <td nowrap><a href="OptionalTasks/test.html">Test</a></td>
1237 <td><p>Executes a unit test in the <code>org.apache.testlet</code>
1238 framework.</p></td>
1239 </tr>
1240</table>
1241
1242<p></p>
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1254 <th nowrap>Task Name</th>
1255 <th>Description</th>
1256 </tr>
1257
1258 <tr valign="top">
1259 <td nowrap><a href="Integration/VAJAntTool.html">
1260 Visual Age for Java Tasks</a></td>
1261 <td><p>(See the documentation describing the Visual Age for Java
1262 tasks.)</p></td>
1263 </tr>
1264</table>
1265
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