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Pre-process Tasks

Task Name Description
ANTLR Invokes the ANTLR Translator generator on a grammar file.
AntStructure Generates a DTD for Ant buildfiles that contains information about all tasks currently known to Ant.
IContract Instruments Java classes using the iContract DBC preprocessor. This task can generate a properties file for iControl, a graphical user interface that lets you turn on/off assertions.
JavaCC Invokes the JavaCC compiler-compiler on a grammar file.
Javah Generates JNI headers from a Java class.
JJTree Invokes the JJTree preprocessor for the JavaCC compiler-compiler. It inserts parse-tree building actions at various places in the JavaCC source that it generates. The output of JJTree is run through JavaCC to create the parser. This task only invokes JJTree if the grammar file is newer than the generated JavaCC file.
MParse Invokes the Metamata MParse compiler-compiler on a grammar file.
Native2Ascii Converts files from native encodings to ASCII with escaped Unicode. A common usage is to convert source files maintained in a native operating system encoding to ASCII, prior to compilation.
Translate Identifies keys in files, delimited by special tokens, and translates them with values read from resource bundles.
Xslt/Style Processes a set of documents via XSLT.


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Andrew Marlow 2003-07-08