> From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 10:18 AM, Christoph Wilhelms wrote: > > The additional information you generate is pretty useful, but can I > > use it > > during runtime for custom and addition tasks? If YES it > would be really > > nice! Ofcourse I do not want to generate any documents then, but > > information > > maps/arrays! > > The idea is that tasks that want to be hooked in to nice WYSIWYG > editors and tools must have pre-generated their descriptor > and have it > embedded in their JAR. Think of this as the "deployment descriptor" > for Ant tasks - like J2EE web.xml and such. >
This sounds like <antlib> descriptor... This is why I keep on saying that we should provide a real good descriptor and not just property files. > Certainly what you have is good, and perhaps something you'd want to > have even if you had this descriptor stuff there too, just in case a > task library is not using an official deployment descriptor. > We probably do not want users having the explicitly describe every attribute of a task or datatype, I guess introspection or some other mechanism should be used for that. Jose Alberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
