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<h2>Overview of Ant core tasks</h2>
<p>Given the large number of tasks available to a build designer, it may be
difficult to get an overall view of what each task can do. The following
table provides a short description of each task and a link to the complete
documentation.</p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<tr valign="top">
<th>Task Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="ant.html">Ant</a></td>
<td><p>Runs Ant on a supplied buildfile. This can be used to build
subprojects.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="antcall.html">AntCall</a></td>
<td><p>Call another target within the same build-file optionally
specifying some
properties.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="antstructure.html">AntStructure</a></td>
<td><p>Generates a DTD for Ant buildfiles which contains information
about all tasks currently known to Ant.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="apply.html">Apply</a></td>
<td><p>Executes a system command. When the <i>os</i> attribute is
specified, then
the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of the specified operating
systems.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="available.html">Available</a></td>
<td><p>Sets a property if a resource is available at runtime. This
resource can be a
file, a directory, a class in the classpath, or a JVM system
resource.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="chmod.html">Chmod</a></td>
<td><p>Changes the permissions of a file or all files inside specified
directories.
Right now it has effect only under Unix. The permissions are also UNIX
style, like
the argument for the chmod command.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="copy.html">Copy</a></td>
<td><p>Copies a file or Fileset to a new file or directory.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="copydir.html"><i>Copydir</i></a></td>
<td><p><i>This task has been deprecated. Use the Copy task
instead.</i></p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="copyfile.html"><i>Copyfile</i></a></td>
<td><p><i>This task has been deprecated. Use the Copy task
instead.</i></p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="cvs.html">Cvs</a></td>
<td><p>Handles packages/modules retrieved from a
<a href="http://www.cvshome.org/"; target="_top">CVS</a> repository.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="cvspass.html">CVSPass</a></td>
<td><p>Adds entries to a .cvspass file. Adding entries to this file has
the same
affect as a cvs login command.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="delete.html">Delete</a></td>
<td><p>Deletes either a single file, all files in a specified directory
and its sub-directories, or a set of files specified by one or more
<a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s.</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="deltree.html"><i>Deltree</i></a></td>
<td><p><i>This task has been deprecated. Use the Delete task
instead.</i></p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="ear.html">Ear</a></td>
<td><p>An extension of the <a href="jar.html">Jar</a> task with special
treatment for files that should end up in an Enterprise Application
archive.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="echo.html">Echo</a></td>
<td><p>Echoes a message to System.out or a file.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="exec.html">Exec</a></td>
<td><p>Executes a system command. When the <i>os</i> attribute is
specified, then
the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of the specified operating
systems.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="execon.html">ExecOn</a></td>
<td><p>Executes a system command. When the <i>os</i> attribute is
specified, then
the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of the specified operating
systems.</p>
<p>The files and/or directories of a number of <a
href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s are passed as arguments to the
system
command. At least one nested <code><fileset></code> is
required.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="fail.html">Fail</a></td>
<td><p>Exits the current build (just throwing a BuildException),
optionally printing additional information.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="filter.html">Filter</a></td>
<td><p>Sets a token filter for this project or read multiple token filter
from
an input file and sets these as filters.
Token filters are used by all tasks that perform file copying operations
through the Project commodity methods.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="fixcrlf.html">FixCRLF</a></td>
<td><p>Modifies a file to add or remove tabs, carriage returns,
linefeeds, and
EOF characters.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="genkey.html">GenKey</a></td>
<td><p>Generates a key in keystore.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="get.html">Get</a></td>
<td><p>Gets a file from a URL.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="gunzip.html">GUnzip</a></td>
<td><p>Expands a GZip file.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="gzip.html">GZip</a></td>
<td><p>GZips a file.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="jar.html">Jar</a></td>
<td><p>Jars a set of files.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="java.html">Java</a></td>
<td><p>Executes a Java class within the running (Ant) VM or forks another
VM if
specified.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="javac.html">Javac</a></td>
<td><p>Compiles a source tree within the running (Ant) VM.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="javadoc.html">Javadoc/<i>Javadoc2</i></a></td>
<td><p>Generates code documentation using the javadoc tool.</p>
<p><i>The Javadoc2 task is deprecated. Use the Javadoc task
instead.</i></p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="mail.html">Mail</a></td>
<td><p>A task to send SMTP email.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="mkdir.html">Mkdir</a></td>
<td><p>Creates a directory. Also non-existent parent directories are
created, when
necessary.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="move.html">Move</a></td>
<td><p>Moves a file to a new file or directory, or sets of files to
a new directory.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="patch.html">Patch</a></td>
<td><p>Applies a diff file to originals.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="pathconvert.html">PathConvert</a></td>
<td><p>Converts a nested path, path reference, or fileset reference to
the form usable on a
specified platform and stores the result in a given property.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="property.html">Property</a></td>
<td><p>Sets a property (by name and value), or set of properties (from
file or
resource) in the project.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="recorder.html">Record</a></td>
<td><p>A recorder is a listener to the current build process that records
the
output to a file.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="rename.html"><i>Rename</i></a></td>
<td><p><i>This task has been deprecated. Use the Move task
instead.</i></p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="replace.html">Replace</a></td>
<td><p>Replace is a directory based task for replacing the occurrence of
a given string with another string
in selected file.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="rmic.html">Rmic</a></td>
<td><p>Runs the rmic compiler for a certain class.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="signjar.html">SignJar</a></td>
<td><p>Signs a jar or zip file with the javasign command line
tool.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="sleep.html">Sleep</a></td>
<td><p> A task for sleeping a short period of time, useful when a build
or
deployment process requires an interval between tasks.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="sql.html">Sql</a></td>
<td><p>Executes a series of SQL statements via JDBC to a database.
Statements
can either be read in from a text file using the <i>src</i> attribute or
from
between the enclosing SQL tags.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="style.html">Style</a></td>
<td><p>Process a set of documents via XSLT.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="tar.html">Tar</a></td>
<td><p>Creates a tar archive.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="taskdef.html">Taskdef</a></td>
<td><p>Adds a task definition to the current project, such that this new
task can be
used in the current project.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="touch.html">Touch</a></td>
<td><p>Changes the modification time of a file and possibly creates it at
the same time.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="tstamp.html">TStamp</a></td>
<td><p>Sets the <code>DSTAMP</code>, <code>TSTAMP</code>, and
<code>TODAY</code> properties in the current project based on
the current date and time.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="typedef.html">Typedef</a></td>
<td><p>Adds a data type definition to the current project, such that this
new type can be used in the current project.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="unzip.html">Unjar</a></td>
<td><p>Unzips a jarfile.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="untar.html">Untar</a></td>
<td><p>Untars a tarfile.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="unzip.html">Unwar</a></td>
<td><p>Unzips a warfile.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="unzip.html">Unzip</a></td>
<td><p>Unzips a zipfile.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="uptodate.html">Uptodate</a></td>
<td><p>Sets a property if a target files are more up to date than a set of
Source files.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="war.html">War</a></td>
<td><p>An extension of the <a href="jar.html">Jar</a> task with special
treatment for files that should end up in the <code>WEB-INF/lib</code>,
<code>WEB-INF/classes</code> or <code>WEB-INF</code> directories of the
Web Application Archive.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="zip.html">Zip</a></td>
<td><p>Creates a zipfile.</p></td>
</tr>
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