Question

I have multiple Java eclipse projects. Each of them has “jardesc” file for building jar. It’s nice – double click -> finish and jar file is made. But when i have to export several jars it’s a pain – i have to repeat procedure several times.
Please tell me, can i use Ant script to run several “jardesc” files at once (and get several jars according to each jardesc file)? How to do it?

Answer 1

Take a look at subant task in ant. You can create ant-file which would call other files to.

    <subant target="create_jar1">
        <fileset dir="." includes="jar2.xml"/>
    </subant>
    <subant target="create_jar2">
        <fileset dir="." includes="jar1.xml"/>
    </subant>