Ant: The Definitive Guide

Name

taskdef

Synopsis

Adds a task to the current project. This is used to define tasks not already defined in the ant.jar’s default.properties file.

Attributes

classname (all, String, *)

The class that implements the task.

classpath (all, Path, N)

The classpath to use.

file (1.4, File, N)

The name of a properties file containing one or more task definitions. Each line is formatted like this:

taskname=full.package.name.TaskClass

name (all, String, *)

The name of the task.

resource (1.4, String, N)

The Java resource name of a properties file containing one or more task definitions. This is identical to the file attribute, except it uses a ClassLoader to locate the properties file.

The name and classname attributes are required unless the file or resource attributes are specified.

Content

0,1 nested <classpath> elements (all)

May be used in place of the classpath attribute.

Example Usage

Defines a custom task that can then be used throughout a project:

<taskdef name="mycodegen" classname="com.foobar.tasks.MyCodeGen"/>