Declare Task

The declare task generates meta data about a plugin. This information is used by the plugin task to load and install tasks and project listeners. The classpath is automatically generated from the plugin descriptor using the RUNTIME policy combhined with the deliverable jar generated by the project.

<x:declare/>

build:
[x:declare] creating plugin declaration
    [mkdir] Created dir: F:\dev\avalon\runtime\meta\tools\target\deliverables\plugins

An example of the plugin meta data generated by the prepare task is shown below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<plugin>
  <info>
    <name>avalon-meta-tools</name>
    <group>avalon/meta</group>
    <version>1.4.0</version>
    <type>plugin</type>
  </info>
  <tasks>
    <taskdef name="meta" class="org.apache.avalon.meta.info.ant.MetaTask"/>
  </tasks>
  <listeners>
    <listener class="org.apache.avalon.meta.info.ant.MetaBuildListener"/>
  </listeners>
  <classpath>
    <artifact>jar:avalon/meta/avalon-meta-impl#1.4.0</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:avalon/meta/avalon-meta-spi#1.4.0</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:avalon/meta/avalon-meta-api#1.4.0</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:avalon/framework/avalon-framework-api#4.2.1</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:avalon/util/avalon-util-i18n#1.0.0</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:avalon/util/avalon-util-configuration#1.0.0</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:avalon/framework/avalon-framework-impl#4.2.1</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:avalon/framework/avalon-framework-legacy#4.2.1</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:avalon/logkit/avalon-logkit#2.0.0</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:log4j/log4j#1.2.8</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:servletapi/servletapi#2.3</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:avalon/tools/mailapi#1.3.1</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:avalon/tools/jms#1.1</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:qdox/qdox#1.3</artifact>
    <artifact>jar:avalon/meta/avalon-meta-tools#1.4.0</artifact>
  </classpath>
</plugin>