Ant provides sidebar integration to use Apache Ant to allow you to launch build targets. It also includes (work-in-progress) completion in XMLs to help edit your XMLs.

Included in the extensions is Apache Ant 1.10.14.

Requirements

Apache Ant requires some additional tools to be installed on your Mac:

• Java 8 or newer

Make sure that JAVA_HOME has been set, and points to a JDK in you system. Otherwise, you may get errors if the build is using javac.

Usage

To display the Ant sidebar:

• Click on the "All Sidebars" button.
• Select Ant or drag to a sidebar area

In the Ant sidebar, you can right-click and select "Run" on a target.

On targets and on other elements in the sidebar, you can also select "Show in Build XML" to jump to that point in the XML

Notes

When word wrapping is enabled, sometimes the Show in Build XML does not go to the correct position.

Configuration

To configure global preferences, open Extensions → Extension Library... then select Ant's Preferences tab.

You can also configure preferences on a per-project basis in Project → Project Settings...

The default it to look for a build.xml in the root of your Nova project.

License

This project bundles Apache Ant, which is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. The full text of the Apache License 2.0 is available in the apache-ant-1.10.14/LICENSE file.

'Apache', 'Apache Software Foundation', the multicoloured feather, and the various Apache project names and logos are either registered trademarks or trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation in the United States and other countries.

Notices

Notices for the Apache Ant project can be found in the apache-ant-1.10.14/NOTICE file.

Changelog

The format is based on Keep a Changelog 1.1 and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning 2.0.

Todo

• When editor's view is wrapped, "Show in XML" does not go to the correct position.

[0.8.0] - 2025-02-25

Added

• Started adding completions for Ant tags and attributes
• Screenshot to README.md

Fixed

• NS3X2J was skipping whitespace inside a tag's content

Changed

• Only warns about missing build file if it's not the default

[0.7.0] - 2024-09-27

• Added notices about Apache Ant

[0.6.0] - 2024-07-04

Added

• Created new icons

Changed

• NS3X2J optionally stores position of node
• Clean up and change other scripts around

[0.5.0] - 2024-07-01

Added

• Configuration options

[0.4.0] - 2024-06-23

Changed

• NS3X2J to handle parsing unmodified XML string.
• NS3X2J stores position of elements.

Fixed

• Context menus to only enable relevant options.

[0.3.0] - 2024-06-22

Changed

• Show nested commands in tree.

[0.2.0] - 2024-06-19

Changed

• Replaced XML parsing with custom XML parser

[0.1.0] - 2024-03-17

Added

• Started running targets!
• Initial commit