Ant Project Files

The Explorer window's Filesystem tab displays Ant nodes as described in the following table.
Icon Description
Ant project node icon Ant project. Expand an Ant project node to see the targets defined by the project. You can edit an Ant project as an XML file by right-clicking the project and choosing Open.
Ant target node icon Ant target. Expand a target to reveal individual tasks.
Node icon for Ant targets with description Ant target with a description. These targets are more visible to the user. For example, running ant -projecthelp at the command line shows these targets first.
Ant task node icon Ant task.
Data structure node icon Data structure.
Node icon for projects with XML parse errors A project with an XML parse error.
Node icon for out of place data structures A data structure that is out of place. To see a tooltip with an explanation of the error, place your pointer over the file node.

You can view and edit Ant scripts that are not stored in a directory (for example, scripts in a JAR or FTP filesystem) if the filesystem supports it. You cannot run these scripts, however, because Ant cannot handle the IDE's special filesystems.

See also
Editing Ant Scripts
Creating and Running an Ant Project
Executing a Target

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