AntTypes

Identifier: org.eclipse.ant.core.antTypes

Description: Allows plug-ins to define arbitrary Ant datatypes for use by the Ant infrastructure.  The standard Ant infrastructure allows for the addition of arbitrary datatypes.  Unfortunately, it is unlikely that the Ant Core plug-in would have the classes required by these datatypes on its classpath (or that of any of its prerequisites).  To address this, clients should define an extension which plugs into this extension-point and maps a datatype name onto a class.  The Ant plug-in can then request that the declaring plug-in load the specified class.

Configuration Markup: 

   <!ELEMENT antType EMPTY>
   <!ATTLIST antType
      name           CDATA #REQUIRED
      class          CDATA #REQUIRED
   >

Examples: The following is an example of an object declaration:

   <extension point="org.eclipse.ant.core.antType">
      <antTask name="coolType" class="com.example.CoolType"/>
   </extension>

API Information: The objects declared via this extension-point are accessible though the following API:

   org.eclipse.core.ant.AntPlugin.getTypeExtensions

Supplied Implementation: The platform itself supplies a number of datatypes including commaPatternSet.

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