Ant Paths(II)

1 March 2008

Further, one or more Resource Collections can be specified as a nested elements. These must consist of file-type resources only. Certain resource collection types such as fileset, dirset and files are undefined in terms of order.

    <classpath>
      <pathelement path="${classpath}"/>
      <fileset dir="lib">
        <include name="**/*.jar"/>
      </fileset>
      <pathelement location="classes"/>
      <dirset dir="${build.dir}">
        <include name="apps/**/classes"/>
        <exclude name="apps/**/*Test*"/>
      </dirset>
      <filelist refid="third-party_jars"/>
    </classpath>

This builds a path that has the value of ${classpath}, followed by all jar files in the lib directory, the classes directory, all directories named classes under the apps subdirectory of ${build.dir}, except those that have the text Test in their name, and the files specified in the referenced FileList.

If you want to use the same path-like structure for mutiple tasks, you can define them with a element at the same level as targets, and reference them via their id attribute.

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