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Asked: 2026-05-20T10:31:06+00:00

I work in a group where we produce many small apps, and use ANT

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I work in a group where we produce many small apps, and use ANT for our build processes.

We would like to have some of our commonly used directives housed in a common way. Currently, we require a mapped drive to a common location, and use 

<import file="${env.MAPPED_DRIVE}/common_directive.xml">

There must be a better way to distribute a common ant file to include in many projects without having to map a drive. Do you have any other suggestions?

Import is a “top level” directive, which means it won’t work inside of a target. Therefore, I cannot simply create a target that downloads the file, and then import it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you are using ANT 1.8+, you could specify a URL and host the common build fragment on a website.

    Since Ant 1.8.0 the task can also
    import resources from URLs     or
    classpath resources (which are URLs,
    really). If you need to know whether
    the current build file’s source has
    been a file or an URL you can consult
    the property ant.file.type.projectname
    (using the same example as above
    ant.file.type.builddocs) which either
    have the value “file” or “url”.

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