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From: "Jose Alberto Fernandez" <j_a_fernandez@yahoo.com>
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Subject: RE: if and unless attributes for all Tasks
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:56:45 +0100
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> From: Peter Vogel [mailto:pvogel@arsin.com]
>
> > > Heh! It's dynamic, Ant would compile+load the code "on the fly"
> > > so to speak, vs. the current need to compile custom tasks, then
> > > re-call ant...
> > >
> >
> > You can do that now with taskdef.
> >
>
> Really?  I was under the impression that taskdef just told ant to load
> a .class/.jar file, not compile a .java file.

You can compile code (using <javac>) and after that use <taskdef> to load
it.
My buildfiles use that. I compile our specilized ANT task and use then on
the same run of ANT, it works perfectly fine, just use the <classpath>
attribute of taskdef.

Jose Alberto