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From: "Antoine Levy-Lambert" <levylambert@tiscali-dsl.de>
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Subject: antlib / proposal of Peter Reilly
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 09:50:53 +0200
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I am having a look at =
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D19897

This proposal seems to address most of the points discussed in this =
mailing list concerning the antlib thread of discussion.

I was thinking maybe we do not need to look further and we could commit =
this contribution ?

I would be glad to hear your comments concerning :
1) the functionality provided by the contribution
2) the implementation
I am quoting Peter Reilly here :

This patch adds 4 new features (the code is interrelated,
but may be split).
  * adapter attribute added to typedef
  * add(Type) method added to introspection rules
  * typedef can read an xml defintion file
  * namespace support for xml defintions (antlib:)
So one can do
<project xmlns:acme=3D"org.acme.anttasks">
   <acme:hello>
      <path path=3D"build.xml"/>
   </acme:hello>
</project>
where the class path contains the org/acme/anttasks/antlib.xml
and the antlib.xml file contains:
<antlib>
   <typedef name=3D"hello" classname=3D"org.acme.anttasks.Hello"/>
</antlib>


ToDo: add in support for ant-type polymorphism and addConfigured(Type).
      also more error checking and unit tests.


Antoine
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