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

Konstantin,

Thank you so much.  You are very helpful in clearing my doubts.

Thanks again


If I need to contribute a   plugin to this project (after I get it to work
for me) then it should be maven based ?


-Narahari

On 11/30/06, Konstantin Priblouda <kpriblouda-/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> --- 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 ]----------------
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>
>
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