Integrating source code generation into the Apache Ant build

In Brief

• To import all known MetaBoss custom tasks in to the project:

  <!-- This example shows fragment of ant build file with custom task declarations -->
  
  <!-- Import all tasks defined in resource files located inside libraries -->
  <typedef resource="taskdefs.xml"/>
  
  

• To invoke Ant on the project which uses MetaBoss:

  REM This example shows fragment of the MS-DOS/Windows batch file which invokes Ant
  
  REM Define location of the JDK tool
  SET JAVA_HOME=c:/j2sdk1.4.2_05
  
  REM Define location of the Ant tool
  SET ANT_HOME=c:/JavaLib/apache-ant-1.6.5
  
  REM Define location of the MetaBoss tool
  SET METABOSS_HOME=c:/MetaBoss-1.4
  
  REM Instruct Ant to use MetaBoss Ant customisation library
  set ANT_ARGS=-lib %METABOSS_HOME%/lib/MetaBossAntIntegration.jar
  
  REM Invoke Ant
  call ant
  
  

Additional Notes

Full list of available MetaBoss Ant tasks and samples how to invoke them can be found in Dev-time libraries API references.