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| <h3>Creating Ant buildfiles</h3> |
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| <P CLASS="Para"> Ant buildfiles are just text files, so the most straightforward |
| way to create an Ant buildfile in Eclipse is:</P> |
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| <li><b>File > New > File</b>.</li> |
| <li>Enter a name for the file.</li> |
| <li>Click <b>Finish</b>.</li> |
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| <p>By default the Ant editor only has an association with build.xml named files. |
| As the user you can designate for the Ant editor to be considered for all xml |
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| <li><b>Window > Preferences > General > Editors >File Associations</b></li> |
| <li>Add an association between *.xml and the Ant editor.</li></ol> |
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| Now, as long as the file has a .xml extension, Eclipse will consider it to be a |
| possible Ant buildfile, and will enable Ant-related actions when it is selected. |
| Until a file has Ant buildfile content, you will need to open it using <b>Open With > Ant Editor</b>.</p> |
| <p>As will be demonstrated in a later section, an Ant buildfile can be created |
| for an Eclipse plug-in that contains predefined targets that are useful for deploying |
| the plug-in.</p> |
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