> Is there a way of actually introspecting a build file via > ant. The introspection should help expose details such as > a) all targets in an build file > b) dependency trees for targets > > and many other such details that might be useful to seasoned > ant-users. > > I am envisaging its use as follows: > > a) > > cmdline> ant -showtargets [build.xml] > > Result: > > Found targets: > abc > xyz
-projecthelp Could only make nonsense if you have only some targets with description attributes. But I think I had read something about that on dev or users list ... > b) > > cmdline> ant -dependencies [build.xml] > > target [abc] > - init > - check-ab > target [xyz] > - init > - abc > > > Also, is there a property resolver which allows an ant-user > to know what the real values of all properties used by any > target(s) would be at runtime? > > If these features don't exist, what do the folks here think > of it? Anyone interested in working on creating them?? You mean something like http://www.jguru.com/forums/view.jsp?EID=1121580 ? Jan
