Adding an Ant target to the pre-processing pipeline You can add an Ant target to the pre-processing pipeline. This enables you to insert additional processing before or after the pre-processing chain or a specific step in the pre-processing operation. plug-insAnt Antpreprocessing

You can use the depend.preprocess.pre and depend.preprocess.post extension points to run a target before or after the entire pre-processing operation. In addition, there are extension points that enable you to run an Ant target before specific pre-processing steps.

 Define and integrate the new Ant target. Create the following plugin.xml file: <plugin id="plugin-id"> <feature extension="extension-point" value="Ant-target"/> </plugin>where
  • plugin-id is the plug-in identifier.
  • extension-point is a pre-processing extension point.
  • Ant-target is the name of the Ant target.
 Install the plug-in. The new target is added to the Ant dependency list. The new target is now always run in conjunction with the specified step in the pre-processing pipeline. Example

The following plugin.xml file specifies that the myAntTargetBeforeChunk target is always run before the chunk step in the pre-processing stage.

<plugin id="com.example.extendchunk"> <feature extension="depend.preprocess.chunk.pre" value="myAntTargetBeforeChunk"/> </plugin>

It assumes that the myAntTargetBeforeChunk target has already been defined and integrated.