Antlib
Introduction
The purpose of this document is to summarize the discussions taking place concerning antlib. I will try to always give proper credit, and to represent honestly different views expressed on the ant development mailing list. Send comments/criticisms if you are not happy with these documents.
Overview
Jose Alberto Fernandez 03.04.2003 18:25
There are the following features in the antlib proposal:
- antlib & antjar
- type definitions that allow to define new implementations of mappers, selectors, paths, conditions, etc. That you can define in your antlib and a way to link this with the introspectors (I am not sure how complete this is).
- A scoping framework for the symbol tables needed to manage the antlib definitions (I think ANT has something on this regard)
- A framework for managing classloaders where you can specify which classloader to use when loading an antlib.