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ROXES ANT Tasks is a collection of Open-Source-Tasks for ANT 1. win32.properties The win32.properties task provides access to special Windows directories like desktop, program menu, program files and many more. To use this task no special deployment

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3. win32.shortcut
The win32.shortcut task is able to create Windows Shortcuts. Both Windows Shortcut file formats (.url and .lnk) can be read and written.
4. sfx
sfx creates native self extracting executables out of ZIP archives. Currently supported target platforms are Windows, MacOS X, almost any Unix and self executable JAVA Jar files.
5. jstub
jstub creates native executables for Windows, MacOS X and almost any Unix System out of a working JAR archive. For Windows the executable command may contain placeholders for registry, enviroment and executable filename which are evaluated at runtime.
6. jnlp
jnlp simplifies the creation of JNLP files for JAVA Web Start.
The jnlp task is able to handle ANT Filesets as resources. This feature makes jnlp file creation using the jnlp Task much more easier.
7. preferences (since version 1.1)
preferences lets you access the JAVA Preferences API. You can read, write, import, export and test preferences data and nodes.
8. properties
The properties task is able to write Java property files. This task can merge existing properties files with custom properties defined in the ant build file.
9. find
The find task is able find files using a pattern. This task is especially useful when you use libraries which name contain version/build information which may vary over the time.
9. compare (since version 1.2)
compare is able to compare 2 values either numerical ore aplanumerical and set customziable properties depending of the result.
10. execute (since version 1.2)
execute executes a block of tasks one ore more times depending of a condition.
11. call (since version 1.2)
call executes a task one ore more times depending of a condition.
12. os.properties (since version 1.2)
creates properties containing informations about the underlying os.
13. unix.properties (since version 1.2)
makes important properties of the underlying unix system available as ant properties. espcially common kde directories like program menu, desktop etc. are supported.
14. unix.link (since version 1.2)
creates a unix soft link. works only under unix.
15. unix.kde.shortcut (since version 1.2)
creates a kde shortcut file used to create desktop or program menu entries.
16. unix.kde.directoryshortcut (since version 1.2)





 

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