Matt At the Directory Level: You can grab all the filtered jars you need with <archives> and <zips> and <restrict> tags e.g. <copy todir="${target}"> <archives> <zips> <restrict> <path path="${java.class.path}"/> <name name="*.jar"/> </restrict> </zips> </archives> </copy>looking inside a jar ...i think it might be best to leverage JarFileIterator
javap JarFileIterator.class produces: public class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.depend.JarFileIterator implements org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.depend.ClassFileIterator { public org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.depend.JarFileIterator(java.io.InputStream) throws java.io.IOException; public org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.depend.ClassFile getNextClassFile(); } so as you can see if you already have one file and get an InputStream you can pass InputStream to JarFileIterator(InputStream) then setup an iterator and continously get the next Class File using ClassFile getNextClassFile() method this is clumsy and assumes you have a InputStream ready to go the alternate strategy might be to grab the source: put test input jar in a "known location" e.g. /temp folder modify the source constructor so that ctor will always read the jar file located in /temp (instead of InputStream) create some sort of exportable Collection (ArrayList?) toss in a while loop which reads the Jar file contents and populates a public static ArrayList in the end reference the ArrayList that was exported... to get the list of Class Files Does anyone have any ideas to help Matt? Buona Fortuna Martin ______________________________________________ > Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:18:21 -0500 > Subject: Parse jar:file prefix to Resource > From: viper2...@gmail.com > To: user@ant.apache.org > > Hi, > > I am writing some custom ant tasks and I want to support files inside of > zip/jar files. I have noticed that some ant tasks use the > jar:file:/path/to/a.jar!/path/in/jar/file.xml syntax but I can't seem to > get it work. How do I use this pattern in my tasks and map them to a > Resource object like FileResource, URLResource, etc. Thanks. > > Matt Bertolini