Up front, let me say that I am relatively new to using Ant.

Ant's declarative approach is significantly different than the sequential/procedural approach of script files and most other languages. I like to think of it as "goal"-oriented as opposed to "process" oriented, if that helps. I respectfully suggest that you will be most effective simply examining the script for "goals" that it accomplishes, and then creating Ant tasks to accomplish the same goals.

I've played with the demo of a product called Virtual Ant that may be helpful making a more direct conversion. Basically, Virtual Ant gives you a user interface similar to Windows Explorer. You perform your script's operations (copy, compile, jar, etc.) using their "virtual" interface, and it creates an Ant build.xml that corresponds with the operations you performed. I'm sure it will be sub-optimal, but should at least get you started.

--Wayne

Sayed, Irfan (Irfan) wrote:
Hi All,
I have one build script which is totally in windows batch script. I am
planning to convert that script in Ant's build.xml.
Batch script contains all the windows related commands such as
cls,xcopy,cd,dir,mv etc. Now for me , as i am very new to Ant world ,
very difficult to write task for each operation. I have gone through the manual pages of ant.apache.org site but did not
find what i want.
Can somebody please guide me in converting this batch script to Ant's
build.xml.
Please help. Regards
Irfan.

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