Ant Project Files

Mount the directory with the Ant project file(s) you wish to use with Forte to the Repository or open the Explorer to the directory where your Ant project file(s) are stored. If the Ant module is installed and enabled, you can expand the Ant () project file's node in the Explorer. There are several kinds of nodes which may be associated with each Ant project file.

You can expand the Ant project node to see targets defined by it. Targets marked with the special icon have an associated description and are intended to be more visible to the user (for example, ant -projecthelp on the command line will show them first). Each target can be further expanded to reveal individual tasks.

You can edit the project as XML by right-clicking it and selecting Open. Or, you can make many edits directly in the Explorer.

If there is an XML parse error in the file, you will see an error icon and the Explorer tooltip will indicate the problem. Also sometimes a certain element is not allowed in a particular place by Ant, and again an error icon and tooltip will alert you.

Note that Ant scripts not stored in a directory (e.g. in a JAR or FTP filesystem) can be viewed, and edited if the filesystem supports it, but never executed. This is a restriction of Ant itself (it does not understand the IDE's special filesystems).