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Jane,

in ant 1.6, you can do even better and declare your custom tasks with an 
antlib.xml file.
I suggest you read the following :

http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTypes/antlib.html

Otherwise, the <taskdef/> task supports an attribute resource, which is 
the location  of a file similar to defaults.properties containing the 
list of your custom tasks.
This was already in ant 1.5, probably also before.
Cheers,
Antoine

Jane Young wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have some custom tasks I want to add to Ant but I do not want to 
> update defaults.properties in ant.jar.  Is it possible to have my 
> tasks defined in a separate defaults.properties with the class(es) 
> packaged in a separate jar and copy it to <ant_home>/lib directory?
>
> thanks,
> jane
>
>



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