Detecting presence of an application, access to it's return value

Another newbee question: I need to detect if an application is installed (cross platform). I do not have direct access to the applications (tool) path as it's installation path is found as part of my PATH variable. I would like to try to run it with failonerror set to false and look for the progr

Attempting to install ant-contrib in my project folder.

I am attempting to use ant-contrib I am referencing I am using the second installation method where I have placed the ant-contrib.jar file in a folder within my project. ant-contrib.jar was renamed to remove the version number. I have placed the following i

Adding the Ant-Contrib Tasks

I wish to use the "var" referenced from this link: I have downloaded and extracted the 1.0b3 files. I am referencing the installation documentation: I am attempting to install based o

Indirect property lookup failing.

I am experimenting with ways to change the case of the text I am passing to a target. In the following test I have created a small table which I am accessing indirectly. >From my primary call (ant-test) I call (target1) which creates a compound string which will be used to lookup my replacement st

How do I do text manipulation on a property string?

I have a property value (string) that I receive from a command line argument as lowercase text. On some platforms I need it to be converted to Title case, on others I need it to be converted to UPPER case before passing it on to my build tools. Is there a preferred method to perform case conversi

Loading property files at initialization: is this an error or by design?

The enclosed file(s) demonstrate an error, is this by design or a bug in ant?    If initialized as shown in my build file, target "init" the property file is not visible outside of the target from which it is loaded, if initialized as shown in my build file, targets "init2" or "init3" the pro