Ant Project Files

The Filesystems tab of the Explorer displays Ant nodes as described in the following table.
Icon Description
Ant project node icon Ant project. The Ant project node displays the project's filename followed by its project name in brackets. Expand an Ant project node to see the targets defined by the project. Double-click to run the project's default target. Right-click and choose Open to edit the project as a text-based XML file in the Explorer.
Ant target node icon Ant target. Double-click to run. Expand 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. Double-click to run. Expand to reveal individual tasks.
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 use the Explorer to mount Ant scripts that are stored in special filesystems, such as JARs or FTP filesystems. You can then view and edit these Ant scripts if the special filesystem supports these actions. Ant scripts stored in special filesystems cannot, however, be run in the IDE.

See also
Creating an Ant Project
Editing an Ant Script
Running an Ant Script
Executing a Target

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