| Ant and the Windows Registry | Ant and the Windows Registry 2006-10-13 - By Steve Loughran
Robert Pepersack wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to read and alter a Windows registry key with Ant. You
> may ask why would I want to change the Windows registry??!! I want to
> change the registry because I want to change my J2EE server's (Sybase
> EAServer) classpath from Ant. My fellow developers and I could change
> our servers' classpathes manually by opening regedit, but this would be
> prone to point-and-click screw-ups. I think that changing the registry
> from Java would be more reliable and less error-prone.
>
> I Googled on the subject and found that there is a Java Preferences API
> and Orangevolt Ant Tasks. Has anyone used these, or know of something
> better?
1. Java PAPI does go via the registry on windows, but only a subset.
2. if patching stuff into the registstry (i.e. add/remove/replace keys)
only (and not reading), just <exec> regedt32 with the right command line
options to load a .reg file. You can probably dynamically create one of
those using <echo>, but presumably you have to encode it as UTF-16 LE or
the like to get windows to take it,
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