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| <H1>Running Ant buildfiles</H1> |
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| <p>To run an Ant buildfile in the Workbench: |
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| <li>In one of the navigation views, select an XML file.</li> |
| <li>From the file's pop-up menu, select <b>Run Ant...</b>. The launch configuration |
| dialog opens.</li> |
| <li>Select one or more targets from the <b>Targets</b> tab. The order |
| in which you select the items is the order in which they will run. The order |
| is displayed in the <b>Target execution order</b> box at the bottom of the tab. |
| You can change the order of the targets by clicking the <b>Order...</b> button.</li> |
| <li>(Optional) Configure options on the other tabs. For example, on the <b>Main</b> tab, |
| type any required arguments in the <b>Arguments</b> field.</li> |
| <li>Click <b>Run</b>.</li> |
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| <p>The Ant buildfile will run on the selected targets. Unless you disabled the <b>Capture |
| output</b> option on the <b>Main</b> tab, the console displays any applicable execution results |
| as the buildfile runs. |
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| <p>These steps create a persisted launch configuration. The newly created configuration will |
| appear in the launch history under <b>Run > External Tools</b> and will be available in the |
| launch configuration dialog which is opened by clicking |
| <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.externalTools.commands.OpenExternalToolsConfigurations")'> |
| <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.png" alt="command link"> |
| <b>Run > External Tools > External Tools...</b></a>. |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts" ><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-antsupport.htm">Ant support</a><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-22.htm">Builds</a><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-exttools.htm">External tools</a> |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-exttools-running.htm">Running external tools</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-ant-classpath.htm">Modifying the Ant classpath</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-ant-version.htm">Using a different version of Ant</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-ant-addtasksandtypes.htm">Adding new Ant tasks and types</a><br> |
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