Is executing Ant targets supported?

[<thomas/>]

Dear <oXygen/> support,

If I understand correctly, then Oxygen comes with Ant. Is it possible to execute targets defined in an Ant build file using the integrated Ant?

I guess I could achieve this via the "External Tool" mechanism also, however, (apart from the need for an Ant installation on the computer) it seems I would need to define separate "External Tools" for each Ant target I wanted to call...

Is there a better way?

Ideally, I would like to have Ant support similar to, e.g., NetBeans, where I can open an Ant build file, see the targets listed, and be able to execute them via some command from the context menu.

Best regards,
Thomas.

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

We plan to add an Ant editor in Oxygen similar with the NetBeans one in a future version of Oxygen.

In the current version (Oxygen 12.1) you can start Ant from Oxygen only as an external tool as you already guessed. However you do not have to install Ant yourself as an Ant distribution is included in Oxygen. You should configure the script [Oxygen-install-folder]\tools\ant\bin\ant.bat on Windows ([Oxygen-install-folder]\tools\ant\bin\ant on Linux) as an external tool.


Regards,
Sorin

[adrian]

Hi,

Starting with Oxygen 12.2 ANT transformation scenarios can be configured and ran directly from the Oxygen GUI:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... ation.html

What is new in <oXygen/> XML Editor 12.2

Regards,
Adrian