Question

How to inline (here-document) few java code lines into a Ant script ? Please an example ?

Answer 1

I don’t believe you can sensibly do it for actual Java code, but I’ve had a lot of success doing this with Groovy. The Groovy Ant task documentation is pretty good. For example:

<groovy> xmlfiles = new File('.').listFiles().findAll{ it =~ '\.xml$' } xmlfiles.sort().each { println it.toString() } </groovy> 

(You can write Groovy in a much more Java-like fashion if you want to.)