Questions tagged [taskdef]
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How to configure Ivy for Ant build
I currently have ANT_HOME located at /home//ant/1.8.4/ant-1.8.4.
I just downloaded the Apache Ivy tarball that includes its dependencies. I extracted it to /home//ivy/2.3.0-rc1/ivy-2.3.0-rc1.
I then copied…

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Classpath for taskdef?
I am defining a new task in Ant.
I exported it as a jar and added to my buildfile:
The problem is that this fails at runtime.
It tells me it didn't find the class.
By adding the jar to the classpath, it is…

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Why cannot Ant taskdef cannot load a resource outside ./net
When declaring external ant tasks using taskdef, for instance ant-contrib, the proposed setup is to use the followin taskdef:

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How can I provide a custom log4j.xml for different ant tasks?
I have a build file that as part of the build process relies on several taskdefs. These taskdef items (for example, webdoclet and jasper2) use log4j as a logger. Ideally, I'd like to be able to provide a different log4j configuration file for…

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What classpath do I need for an Ant taskdef?
I'm new to Ant.
Can someone please tell me what value to put for the 'classpathref' for taskdef?
Will it be the path of the class file?
If yes can an example be given because I tried that and its not working for me.

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Groovy + Antbuilder: How to use Grape to with taskdef?
This is related to . I'm trying to dynamically add the maven-ant-tasks jars with Grape, simulating this:

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Ant taskdef - running out of PermGen space
Using Ant tasks that create subprojects such as and may cause build failures when invoked repeatedly due to one of the following errors:
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
The…

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Intellij IDEA doesn't recognized XJC task attributes
I have an ant build.xml file with XJC task definition:
jaxb dir cotnains jaxb-xjc.jar with XJCTask class…

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AWS ECS Task definition update
I'm setting up new services in ECS and have updated my task definition many times. When I do so, I need to edit the correspondent service and update the version to the latest.
Is there a way to automatically update an AWS service with the latest…

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Grails ant tasks don't work - Unable to start Grails: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
I'm having issues getting something which seems very basic running with Grails. I want to call grails commands from an Ant script - Grails provides a Grails task to achieve this. I have defined the Grails taskdef and classpaths as per the docs…

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Gradle : How to define a task that depend on an ant target
Hi if i list all tasks with gradle testGradle tasks -- all I see all imported ant tasks, but when i try to create my task that depends on an ant task, I am getting "Could not determine the dependencies of task ':testGradle'.
the line that is a…

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AWS ECS - Docker Container exited with code 0
I am trying to start my docker containers using AWS ECS. When i run the task, i see the status as Pending and then immediately i see that my task status is in stopped. But when i try to run the same docker container manually by SSH into that box, i…

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How to dynamically or pre-generate ansible variables from an existing file in a specific format for AWS ECS
I have a simple playbook which creates ECS Taskdefinition.
example:
#variable file, vars.yml
---
containers:
- name: nash-test
essential: true
image: nash-test
memory: 256
portMappings:
- containerPort: 8080
hostPort: 80
protocol:…

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How can I run an ant task as a prerequisite to ?
I created my own ant task using the instructions here. In my ant script, I create the like this:

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Writing my first Ant task: what am I missing?
I have read this article and used it to write my first Ant task called AutoTestTask:
public class AutoTestTask extends org.apache.tools.ant.Task {
// ...
}
I have also compiled and packaged this object into auto-test.jar.
If my understanding of…

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