[OPENJPA-37] Support ant typedefs for OpenJPA tasks

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.7
• Component/s: jdbc, kernel
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Patrick Linskey
• Created: 29/Aug/06 23:22
• Updated: 09/Mar/10 18:32
• Resolved: 01/Feb/07 22:03

Description

Recent versions of ant have a typedef syntax that allows definition of a number of ant tasks all in one typedef call, and some sort of URI scoping of tasks. The syntax looks something like this:

<typedef resource="my/package/antlib.xml" classpathref="my.package.classpath" uri="urn:my-package" />

It seems like this would be more convenient than requiring developers to use taskdef for each task they want to use. We should implement this for OpenJPA.

More details about typedefs: http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/typedef.html