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<font size="+3" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><strong>Subant
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<br><font face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><i>EXPERIMENTAL:</i> This task is experimental and may be under continual change till Ant1.6 ships; it may even be omitted from the product.</font>
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<i>EXPERIMENTAL:</i> This task is experimental and may be under continual
change till Ant1.6 ships; it may even be omitted from the product.
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Calls a given target for all defined sub-builds. This is an extension
of ant for bulk project execution.
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">antfile</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Sets the default build file name to append to directory names found in the build path -default "build.xml"</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">String</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Optional</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Set the buildpath to be used to find sub-projects.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Path</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Buildpath to use, by reference.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Reference</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Sets whether to fail with a build exception on error, or go on.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">boolean</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Corresponds to <code>&lt;ant&gt;</code>'s <code>inheritall</code> attribute.</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">boolean</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">inheritrefs</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Corresponds to <code>&lt;ant&gt;</code>'s <code>inheritrefs</code> attribute.</font>
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<strong>dirset</strong> (org.apache.tools.ant.types.DirSet)</font>
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Adds a directory set to the implicit build path. <p> <em>Note that the directories will be added to the build path in no particular order, so if order is significant, one should use a file list instead!</em>
<short-description><![CDATA[Adds a directory set to the implicit build path.]]></short-description>
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<![CDATA[Adds a directory set to the implicit build path. <p> <em>Note that the directories will be added to the build path in no particular order, so if order is significant, one should use a file list instead!</em>]]>
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<strong>filelist</strong> (org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileList)</font>
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Adds an ordered file list to the implicit build path. <p> <em>Note that contrary to file and directory sets, file lists can reference non-existent files or directories!</em>
<short-description><![CDATA[Adds an ordered file list to the implicit build path.]]></short-description>
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<![CDATA[Adds an ordered file list to the implicit build path. <p> <em>Note that contrary to file and directory sets, file lists can reference non-existent files or directories!</em>]]>
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<strong>fileset</strong> (org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet)</font>
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Adds a file set to the implicit build path. <p> <em>Note that the directories will be added to the build path in no particular order, so if order is significant, one should use a file list instead!</em>
<short-description><![CDATA[Adds a file set to the implicit build path.]]></short-description>
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<![CDATA[Adds a file set to the implicit build path. <p> <em>Note that the directories will be added to the build path in no particular order, so if order is significant, one should use a file list instead!</em>]]>
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<strong>property</strong> (org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Property)</font>
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Corresponds to <code>&lt;ant&gt;</code>'s nested <code>&lt;property&gt;</code> element.
<short-description><![CDATA[Corresponds to <code>&lt;ant&gt;</code>'s nested <code>&lt;property&gt;</code> element.]]></short-description>
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<![CDATA[Corresponds to <code>&lt;ant&gt;</code>'s nested <code>&lt;property&gt;</code> element.]]>
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Corresponds to <code>&lt;ant&gt;</code>'s nested <code>&lt;propertyset&gt;</code> element.
<short-description><![CDATA[Corresponds to <code>&lt;ant&gt;</code>'s nested <code>&lt;propertyset&gt;</code> element.]]></short-description>
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<![CDATA[Corresponds to <code>&lt;ant&gt;</code>'s nested <code>&lt;propertyset&gt;</code> element.]]>
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<strong>reference</strong> (org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Ant.Reference)</font>
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Corresponds to <code>&lt;ant&gt;</code>'s nested <code>&lt;reference&gt;</code> element.
<short-description><![CDATA[Corresponds to <code>&lt;ant&gt;</code>'s nested <code>&lt;reference&gt;</code> element.]]></short-description>
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<![CDATA[Corresponds to <code>&lt;ant&gt;</code>'s nested <code>&lt;reference&gt;</code> element.]]>
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<strong>buildpath</strong> (org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path)</font>
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Creates a nested build path, and add it to the implicit build path.
<short-description><![CDATA[Creates a nested build path, and add it to the implicit build path.]]></short-description>
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<![CDATA[Creates a nested build path, and add it to the implicit build path.]]>
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<strong>buildpathelement</strong> (org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path.PathElement)</font>
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Creates a nested <code>&lt;buildpathelement&gt;</code>, and add it to the implicit build path.
<short-description><![CDATA[Creates a nested <code>&lt;buildpathelement&gt;</code>, and add it to the implicit build path.]]></short-description>
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<![CDATA[Creates a nested <code>&lt;buildpathelement&gt;</code>, and add it to the implicit build path.]]>
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&lt;project name="subant" default="subant1"&gt;
&lt;property name="build.dir" value="subant.build"/&gt;
&lt;target name="subant1"&gt;
&lt;subant target=""&gt;
&lt;property name="build.dir" value="subant1.build"/&gt;
&lt;property name="not.overloaded" value="not.overloaded"/&gt;
&lt;fileset dir="." includes="*/build.xml"/&gt;
&lt;/subant&gt;
&lt;/target&gt;
&lt;/project&gt;
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this snippet build file will run ant in each subdirectory of the project directory,
where a file called build.xml can be found.
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