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<h2><a name="antlib">AntLib</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Defines and loads any tasks and datatypes contained in an ANT library.</p>
<p>It also allows the aliasing of the names being defined in order to avoid 
collisions and provides means to override definitions with the ones defined
in the library.</p>
Ant libraries can be loaded in the current classloader, which is more efficient,
but requires the tasks to be in the path already (such as in the ant lib 
directory) - set <tt>useCurrentClassloader</tt> to true to enable this.
It is also possible to add more libraries to the path, such as any 
libraries the task is dependent on. 
  
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">file</td>
    <td valign="top">The jar-file of the library.</td>
    <td align="center" valign="middle" rowspan="2">at least one of the two</td>
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    <td valign="top">library</td>
    <td valign="top">The name of a library relative to ${ant.home}/lib.</td>
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    <td valign="top">override</td>
    <td valign="top">Replace any existing definition with the same name. (&quot;true&quot;/&quot;false&quot;). When &quot;false&quot; already defined tasks
         and datatytes take precedence over those in the library.
	 Default is &quot;false&quot; when omitted.</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">useCurrentClassloader</td>
    <td valign="top">Set to &quot;true&quot; to avoid using a separate
    ClassLoader for the tasks in the library. Using this option requires
    that the library jar is already accessible by the ClassLoader of
    the project.  Default is &quot;false&quot;.
    </td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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    <td valign="top">classpath</td>
    <td valign="top">A 
    <a href="../using.html#path">classpath</a>
    for extra libraries to pull in.
    </td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<h3><a name="nested">Parameters specified as nested elements</a></h3>

<h4>alias</h4>
<p>Specifies the usage of a different name from that defined in the library
descriptor.</p>
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  <tr>
    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">name</td>
    <td valign="top">The name used in the library descriptor.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
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    <td valign="top">as</td>
    <td valign="top">The alias to use in the project.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
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<p>Specifies the usage of a different name from that defined in the library
descriptor. This is used to deal with name clashes </p>

<h4>classpath</h4>
<h4>classpath</h4>

A classpath of extra libraries to import to support this task. 

<h4>classpathref</h4>
A reference to an existing classpath. 

<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre>  &lt;antlib file=&quot;${build}/lib/mylib.jar&quot;/&gt;</pre>
<p>loads the definitions from the library located at 
<code>${build}/lib/ant.jar</code>.</p>
<pre>  &lt;antlib library=&quot;optional.jar&quot;/&gt;</pre>
<p>loads the definitions from the library <code>optional.jar</code> 
located at <code>${ant.home}/lib</code>.</p>
<pre>  &lt;antlib file=&quot;${build}/lib/mylib.jar&quot&gt;
    &lt;alias name=&quot;echo&quot; as=&quot;myecho&quot;/&gt;
  &lt;/antlib&gt;
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<p>loads the definitions from the library located at 
<code>${build}/lib/ant.jar</code> but uses the name 
&quot;<code>myecho</code>&quot; for the &quot;<code>echo</code>&quot; task
declared in the library.</p>

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