NewAntFeaturesInDetail

Here you can find some detailed introductions to the new features in

Ant 1.6 (to try them download the released version from the Ant download site)

• NewAntFeaturesInDetail MacroDef - define new tasks as macros based on other tasks
  
• NewAntFeaturesInDetail PresetDef - define new tasks by providing default values for attributes or child elements of existing tasks
  
• NewAntFeaturesInDetail AntLib
  
• NewAntFeaturesInDetail Import - import build files - and maybe even override targets in the imported files with targets of your own
• NewAntFeaturesInDetail Ssh - finally SSH and SCP are supported with the help of JSch
  
• NewAntFeaturesInDetail XmlNamespaceSupport
  
• NewAntFeaturesInDetail NewLauncher
  
• NewAntFeaturesInDetail SubAnt
  
• NewAntFeaturesInDetail NewIntrospectionRules - new naming conventions for methods have been added that make writing and using custom selectors, filters or conditions a lot easier.
  
• NewAntFeaturesInDetail DefaultExcludes - the list of default exclude patterns is no longer hard-coded but can be changed at runtime