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Asked: 2026-05-14T18:30:34+00:00

In Eclipse, when configuring an external tool (Run->External Tools->External Tools Configurations…), specifically an Ant

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In Eclipse, when configuring an external tool (Run->External Tools->External Tools Configurations…), specifically an Ant Build, under the Main tab there is a checkbox labeled “Set an Input Handler”. This is checked by default.

What does this do? When would you want to uncheck it and what would the benefits be?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I believe this is when you are using the input Ant Task, which can need an InputHandler.

    When a task wants to prompt a user for input, it doesn’t simply read the input from the console as this would make it impossible to embed Ant in an IDE.
    Instead it asks an implementation of the org.apache.tools.ant.input.InputHandler interface to prompt the user and hand the user input back to the task.

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