bat file for invoking beandoc ant task

[ctassoni]

In the bean doc documentation it says that "In order to run the <beandoc/> Ant task, all of the runtime dependencies must be available to Ant when the task is called. This means either wrapping the call to Ant in a batch or shell script that adds these JAR files onto the classpath, or copying the JAR files into $ANT_HOME/lib. The runtime dependencies are all copied to the target/dist directory when you build BeanDoc."

I prefer the bat file approach, but would like to automatically generate the classpath with reference to a lib directory rather than type it in explicitly. If I were able to use ant syntax this would be trivial:

	<path id="classpath">
    	<fileset dir="$&#123;lib&#125;">
      	<include name="**/*.jar"/>
        <include name="**/*.zip"/>
    	</fileset>
  	</path>

but figuring out how to do this in a bat file is beyond my very limited bat file savy. Is it possible to dynamically build a classpath with bat file syntax? If not, how do people in the forum handle this?

[Alarmnummer]

All libraries ANT depends on, I add to my project (so all other programmers will have the same libraries).

  <path id="classpath.support">
        <fileset dir="lib-support">
            <include name="**/*.jar"/>
        </fileset>
    </path>

So if ANT needs jars, I drop them in the lib-support library. I wouldn`t fiddle around with bat files, you can do it perfectly from ant. And if you need to import a taskdef, you can give the classpath.support to it.