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If I read the source of Ants main class [1] I would think, that the buildfi=
le must be a real file on the file system. It cannot be run from the classp=
ath.

What do you expect from bundling the buildfile in a jar?

A workaround is using a "launcher buildfile" which extracts the content oft=
 he jar (maybe download the jar before from a repository) and <ant> the dow=
nloaded file.


Viele Gr=FC=DFe
Jan

[1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tool=
s/ant/Main.java


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ftrag von Jose Rojas
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2013 11:01
An: Ant Users List
Betreff: Packaging ant scripts into a jar

Hello,

I have an ant build process that I would like bundle into a jar.  Is it
possible for ant to run a build.xml found within a jar file instead of a
file within the local file system?  I know I can script Ant within a custom
Java program to possibly handle some of this, but I also have special hooks
within my custom build.xml that use the 'ant' task to call external ant
scripts for extra customization. It would be nice if Ant could look within
the current classpath/jar to find these, or if not within the
classpath/jar, then look for it within the file system.

Is this architecture possible with Ant?

Thanks for the help.

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