This task takes one or more filenames and turns them into URLs, which it then assigns to a property. Useful when setting up RMI codebases. Nested filesets are supported; if present, these are turned into the url with the given separator between them (default = " ").

Example

 <makeurl file="${user.home}/.m2/repository" property="m2.repository.url" /> 

Sets the property m2.repository.url to the file: URL of the local Maven2 repository.

 <makeurl property="codebase"> <fileset dir="lib includes="*.jar"/> </makeurl> 

Set the property codebase to the three URLs of the files provided as nested elements.

Attribute	Description	Type	Requirement
file	the name of a file to be converted into a URL	File	Optional
property	set the name of a property to fill with the URL	String
separator	set the separator for the multi-url option.	String
validate	set this flag to trigger validation that every named file exists. Optional: default=true	boolean

fileset (org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet)

a fileset of jar files to include in the URL, each separated by the separator

path (org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path)

add a path to the URL. All elements in the path will be converted to individual URL entries