Question

I have a doubt, I made this build file in order to build 3 different projects

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="Trinity" basedir="." default="buildall">

   <target name="project1">
        <ant dir="C:/work/project1"/>
   </target>

   <target name="project2" depends="project1">
        <ant dir="C:/work/project2"/>
   </target>

   <target name="project3" depends="project1, project2">
        <ant dir="C:/work/project3"/>
   </target>

   <target name="buildall" depends="project3"/>

</project>

This is working now. But I wan to also clean the project before doing the build.

In fact I want to acomplish this:
C:/work/project1 ant clean build
C:/work/project2 ant clean build
C:/work/project3 ant clean build

Thanks in advance.

update: Thanks to the quick response from Alex I did a new build.xml file with the following. And I believe is working well, what do you think?.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="Trinity" basedir="." default="buildall">

   <target name="project1">
        <ant dir="C:/work/project1" target="clean"/>
        <ant dir="C:/work/project1" target="build"/>
   </target>

   <target name="project2" depends="project1">
        <ant dir="C:/work/project2" target="clean"/>
        <ant dir="C:/work/project2" target="build"/>
   </target>

   <target name="project3" depends="project1, project2">
        <ant dir="C:/work/project3" target="clean"/>
        <ant dir="C:/work/project3" target="build"/>
   </target>

   <target name="buildall" depends="project3"/>

</project>

Thanks.

Answer 1

According to the ant task, you can specify the targets of the external ant build files

<ant dir="C:/work/project1" target="clean build">

Edit:

According to the ant documentation:

You can specify multiple targets using nested elements instead of using the target attribute. These will be executed as if Ant had been invoked with a single target whose dependencies are the targets so specified, in the order specified.

So you can list out multiple targets this way:

<ant dir="C:/work/project1">
    <target name="clean" />
    <target name="build" />
</ant>

Alternatively you can define a new target in the Project1,2,3 build.xml files called cleanBuild which will in turn call clean followed by build if you want to keep it as a single xml element <ant dir="C:/work/project1" target="cleanBuild">