Re: Fwd: custom template engine how to make it call another ant task

--- Narahari 'n' Savitha <[email protected]> wrote:

> So let me understand this right.
> 
> I can either write out an xml file or I can write
> out a Java/text file out
> with the writer in the custom plugin.

correct. one plugin  - one artifact generated

> I cannot however invoke another ant task.  So my
> only option is to
> 
> a.  Create the files that I need in a particular
> folder and then after the
> xdoclet task, call another ant task to work on this
> newly created files ?

exactly
> 
> b. Call the os executable withe Runtime process to
> do what I want on the
> file.

if you like

> Sounds like a feature request to me.
> 
> How come if you look at Interface extractor plugin,
> I see a TagLibrary
> written for it.  If I dont have custom tags but
> generic java file creation,
> then I dont need the TagLibrary.java is my
> understading.  Please validate.

in this case you do not need such taglib

> Also all the plugins mandate maven to be used.  I am
> not a MAVEN user so can
> I not live with ant for compiling my plugins.

They do not mandate this. There is an ant task to 
invoke xdoclet-2 and you can use this. 

Plugins itself are build with maven-2 ( formerly
maven-1, but this is not working anymore )  because 
we choose to do so. 

You can build your plugin with ant. 

regards,

----[ Konstantin Pribluda http://www.pribluda.de ]----------------
Still using XDoclet 1.x?  XDoclet 2 is released and of production quality.
check it out: http://xdoclet.codehaus.org


 
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