Viewing Ant Documentation

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The IDE lets you integrate Ant documentation into the IDE help system. Ant documentation is stored in an optional module that you can download from the Update Center. This module installs the Ant manual in your IDE and lets you get context-sensitive help on all standard Ant tasks.

To view the help page for an Ant task, do any of the following:

The Ant Documentation module also mounts important Ant APIs for writing custom Ant tasks. You can view Javadoc documentation and use code completion for any of the classes in the mounted APIs.

tip If you see this help page after pressing F1 on any standard Ant task node, the Ant Documentation module is not enabled in your IDE. See Installing Ant Documentation for information about installing and enabling the Ant Documentation module.
See Also

Adding a Task to an Ant Script
Creating a Custom Ant Task
Installing Ant Documentation


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