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Getting Ant property from Java class

Getting Ant property from Java class

2007-07-25       - By Matt Benson
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--- Chris <shef31@(protected)> wrote:

> How do I set a property equal to a value obtained
> from a Java class?
>
> For example, in our app we define the version in a
> constant:
>
> class MyClass {
>      static public final String VERSION = "1.0";
> }
>
> In build.xml, I'd like to assign a version property:
>
> <property
>      name="my_version"
>      value="(somehow get this from MyClass.VERSION)"
> />
>
>
> and then use it to, say, name the .jar file:
>
> <jar destfile="/mydir/myapp-${my_version}.jar">
>      <fileset etc...>
> </jar>
>

See
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html#classconstants
; note that you will need the Jakarta bcel library.

HTH,
Matt

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