Ant: Passing attributes to Build.xml
Critter on a previous post asked "if you can pass in attributes to the build.xml file?" From the Terminal this is as easy as adding another argument "-D".
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Nice one mate.
I've taken the old Model-Glue Ant script you had and modified it a bit.. I've downloaded the latest and placed it on my computer.. made these modification: @modelglueapplicationtemplate@ to all the necessary files..
so now I can call my build.xml and pass in the directory name where I want M-G to be built..
I've taken the old Model-Glue Ant script you had and modified it a bit.. I've downloaded the latest and placed it on my computer.. made these modification: @modelglueapplicationtemplate@ to all the necessary files..
so now I can call my build.xml and pass in the directory name where I want M-G to be built..
I also use the Ant input task with the addproperty attribute quite a bit. (http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/input.html) If you use Eclipse to run your build files you get a nice prompt box to enter your property value.
My preference has always been to create a build.properties file and include that in my build.xml file. I don't have a sample handy or I'd include some syntax, but I tend to use this approach for all of my deployment scripts .
