CODEWITHSUNDEEP
eclipseantversion
James Raitsev
James Raitsev

Reputation: 96531

Using Eclipse, how can i tell what version of ANT is being used?

Same as original question, using Eclipse, how can i tell what version of ANT it is configured to use?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7425

Answers (3)

ewan.chalmers
ewan.chalmers

Reputation: 16255

In Eclipse Helios:

  • Open the Preferences dialog (Window -> Preferences)
  • Navigate to the Ant -> Runtime page
  • Expand the Ant Home Entries node on the Classpath tab

This shows the path used for Ant classpath, which also reveals ANT_HOME for Eclipse.

So by default in Helios you will have something like:

<ECLIPSE_ROOT>/plugins/org.apache.ant_1.7.1.v20100518-1145\lib\ant.jar
etc

On this same page, you can also change ANT_HOME to use a different version of Ant you have installed on your PC.

Upvotes: 11

crowne
crowne

Reputation: 8534

Create a build file and echo $ant.version

On Helios

  1. create an empty build.xml
  2. ctrl+space in the empty file and select the default build file template with 2 targets
  3. in the target called "default" add <echo>${ant.version}</echo>
  4. save the file
  5. right click on the build.xml in the navigator
  6. select run as ant build

Upvotes: 1

dave
dave

Reputation: 11

In Eclipse Helios (version 3.6.2) the version of the various plug-in modules such as ANT can be determined in the following manner.

Select the Help -> "About Eclipse SDK" menu option
Click on the "Installation Details" button
Click on the "Plug-ins" Tab
The "Plug-in Name" column is where ANT can be found the version is in the next column.

There will probably be multiple references to ANT in the "Plug-in Name" column including

Ant Build Tool Core
Ant Launching support
Ant UI
Apache Ant

I believe the "Apache Ant" is the most relevant entry and the others deal with how ant integrates with eclipse.

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions