M7 Ant Support - its the little things that count
I'm running through the M7 Ant support since I'm currently writing about Ant integration (chapter 4 of the Eclipse Live title). And it is really cool.
For example in the outline view of your build file now you can see not only the properties but the types. In addition the types now show their id attribute just like the properties show their names.
Other cool stuff...
- Formatter - now you can have consistent formatting across all build files automatically...
- Run - from the outline you can run targets
Very cool new features!
A downside of the new Ant editor: if you include other files via an XML entity, then all the elements from all the included files are also shown in the Outline View. But that's good, I hear you say... Well, it's nice, but when you click on an element what happens? You are navigated to a seemingly arbitrary place in the your file. The DOM doesn't know where anything originally came from, so all navigation is relative to the current file. This is a result of the switch from Xerces to Crimson in M5.
See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=49275
Posted by Chris Noe on February 16, 2004 at 05:51 AM MST #
Hi Chris, did this get fixed in M7?
Posted by Unknown on March 01, 2004 at 06:11 AM MST #