Hi, in a custom task you usually do not need to use a new Ant project instance, so I would use getProject() to access the project attached to the current ant task.
If you are programming a piece of code to execute an Ant task or ant Ant build file from a Java class or framework which is not related to Ant, you would create a new Project instance. Regards, Antoine On May 26, 2013, at 10:41 AM, WebServices Development wrote: > I am trying to create a custom ant task to copy files to a specified location > based on some criteria provided to the task. > > I am using ANT's Copy task for my custom task. I have seen some discussion > about using one of the two - getProject() and "new Project()" but haven't > found any discussion on differences between when to use which of these > approaches. I realise the basic difference is getting reference to an > existing project vs. creating a new reference, but other than that haven't > found any information. > > Is there a specific reason to use one vs. the other? > > Thank you > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
