You can use the <available> in Ant to check for the URL and have Ant fail the build if it's not available.
In fact this can be placed in a fail task. <fail message="${wsdl.url} isn't available"> <condition> <not> <available url="${wsdl.url}"/> </not> </condition> </fail> -- David Weintraub da...@weintraub.name On Aug 14, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Kamal Ahmed <kamal2222ah...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > Does someone have any insight and suggestion, as to what would work best in > the following scenario. > > I want to have a pre-check in place, which will verify if a particular WSDL > is available , and if it IS ( meaning we get WSDL XML ) > only then kick off the ant task which runs some functional tests > > Thanks, > -Kamal.