API Ant Tasks

There are two Apache Ant task to simplify the application development. To use these tasks you must write this code:

       
<target name="init">
    <property file="build.properties"/>
    
    <path id="ajaxforms.classpath">
        <fileset dir="${lib.home}" includes="*.jar"/>
    </path>
    
    <taskdef name="ajaxforms"
             classname="net.ajaxforms.ant.AJAXFormsTask"
             classpathref="ajaxforms.classpath"/>
    <taskdef name="ajaxformsresources"
             classname="net.ajaxforms.ant.AJAXFormsResourcesTask"
             classpathref="ajaxforms.classpath"/>
</target>

ajaxforms

This task transforms XHTML/XForms documents to HTML with javascript documents.

destdir: Destination directory. Required.
srcdir: Source directory. Required.
style: This XSLT file trasforms the result. Optional.
base: Sets the base folder. Optional
resourcesdir: Resources directory. Required.
destextension: Destination extension. Optional, defect value .html.
srcextension: Source extension. Optional, defect value .xform
listfiles: List files. Optional, defect value false.

Sample:

<ajaxforms srcdir="${web.home}" destdir="${build.home}" style="${build.home}/site.xsl" listfiles="true" resourcesdir="resources/"/>

ajaxformsresources

Copy resources to directory.

destdir: Destination directory

debug: Speficied if to use a compacted version of javascript script

Sample:

<ajaxformsresources destdir="${build.home}/resources" debug="false"/>

ajaxformsschema

Transforms a XML Schema to javascript. Actually only transforms simple types.

destdir: Destination directoy. Required.
srcdir: Source directory. Required.
srcextension: Source extension. Optional, defect value .xml
listfiles: List files. Optional, defect value false.

Sample:

<ajaxformsschema srcdir="${web.home}" destdir="${build.home}" listfiles="true">