The Ant integration module includes Ant's optional.jar file. These tasks are mostly optional because they require special libraries not shipped with Ant (and generally not shipped with the IDE either). If you need some of these tasks, download the extra libraries and place the JAR files in the modules/patches/org-apache-tools-ant-module/ directory of your IDE install directory.
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By default, the Ant binary that the IDE uses is
located in your IDE install directory. If you download an experimental version
of the IDE's Ant module from the Update Center, however, the IDE places
the new Ant binary in your user directory instead.
Your optional binaries always have to be placed in the correct directory relative to the Ant binary that you are using. If your Ant binary is located in your user directory, you have to put your optional binaries in the modules/patches/org-apache-tools-ant-module/ directory of your user directory. |
One style that is not supported by the IDE is defining tasks implicitly. Ant enables you to add default task definitions to a special file that lets any script you use automatically pick up task definitions. This feature might be supported in the Ant module in the future.
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Ant Classpath and Custom Tasks Configuring Ant Settings Creating an Ant Project |