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Launching Ant Inside Java Program

Most of the time, we need to embed Ant in a java program. So if you need to call Ant task inside Java program, this piece of code will do it.

Required Jars:

Ant.jar
Ant-Launcher.jar
tools.jar*


you can get the jar file by just using the class org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launche through this Jar finder Website


Source Code:

import org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher;

public class LaunchAnt
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
String[] parameters = new String[2];

parameters[0]="-buildfile";

parameters[1] = "build.xml";

Launcher.main(parameters);

}

}


Note:
tools.jar will be available at the location

C:\ProgramFiles\ - Windows

usr/lib/jvm/ - Linux


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Anonymous said…
Very Informative.
Thanks for Sharing
December 25, 2009 at 12:18 PM
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