Part 3. Extending Ant

If you’re pushing the limits of Ant’s built-in capabilities, chapters 17 and 18 are for you. We first cover writing custom Ant tasks and the essentials of Ant’s API. Then, we explore scripting inside Ant build files and, finally, creating your own datatypes. This section enables you to extend Ant to meet the specific needs of your projects and to provide redistributable tasks for your application.