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# ESA Ant Task
This ant taskdef will help you to generate the Enterprise Subsystem Archive (*.esa) bundles, this could be used in traditional ant `taskdef` way in to the existing ant build scripts.

# Getting Started
Check out **Aries** project and from *esa-ant-task* project run `mvn clean install`, add the generated jar from the `target` directory to your ant classpath 
e.g. ~/.ant/lib , or $ANT_HOME/lib etc.,

The following example shows how this task could be integrated into an existing ant build script,

     <project name="An ant example for esa-ant" default="default">
     
               <description>
                            A simple build file to demonstrate the use of esa-ant task
                 </description>
                
                <taskdef name="esa" classname="org.apache.aries.ant.taskdefs.EsaTask" />
                
                   	<target name="default" description="builds esa with supplied SUBSYSTEM.MF">
                		<esa destfile="demo.esa" symbolicname="test-esa" manifest="${basedir}/SUBSYSTEM.MF">
                			<fileset dir="/tmp/esa-ant-demo">
                				<include name="*.jar" />
                			</fileset>
                		</esa>
                </target>
                
                <target name="default2" description="generates the SUSBYSTEM.MF based on esa contents">
                		<esa destfile="demo2.esa" symbolicname="test-esa" generatemanifest="true">
                			<fileset dir="/tmp/esa-ant-demo">
                				<include name="*.jar" />
                			</fileset>
                		</esa>
                </target>
                    
     </project>