How to Make the build.xml File Print to Console

[Stevens Miller]

I'm using NetBeans and had to add a couple of lines to its build.xml file. It would help my future debugging if I could add something more to that file that would cause it to print a line (something like, "about to run javah") just before it executed a particular command.

Anyone know how to do that?

[jatan bhavsar]

Hi Stevens,


You can explore the <echo> task in Ant through which you will be able to print the messages on the console ... http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/echo.html
Also you can generate the log file for your build.xml with Record task.... http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/recorder.html..
Hope this will be helful to you.

Regards
Jatan

[Stevens Miller]

jatan bhavsar wrote:Hi Stevens,
You can explore the <echo> task in Ant through which you will be able to print the messages on the console ... http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/echo.html

That is exactly what I needed.

Thanks, jatan!