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| Ways of getting information about Ant-based projects useful from other projects. |
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| <p>An {@link org.netbeans.api.project.ant.AntArtifact} is a representation of a |
| build product created from a (somehow Ant-based) project. Rather than relying on |
| details of how another project arranges its builds, a parent project can use |
| {@link org.netbeans.api.project.ant.AntArtifactQuery} to find Ant artifacts from |
| another project (or, perhaps, arbitrary source not formally contained in a |
| project). Using artifact information it is possible to tell what build product |
| (file or directory) will be created and what general sort it is (e.g. JAR vs. |
| Javadoc); which Ant script and target to run to create that build product; and |
| how to request that it be cleaned. This information suffices to create an Ant |
| build script in the parent project that can run sub-builds.</p> |
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