Easier Way To Check and Install jars

[Francisco Tolmasky]

I wrote up a "short" install target in my ant file to make sure I have  
everything necessary to run script tasks, but it seems overly verbose  
for such a simple task:

    <target name = "Copy-Jar" unless = "${JarName}.jar-exists" >
        <echo message = "Installing ${JarName}.jar" />
        <copy tofile = "/usr/share/ant/lib/${JarName}.jar" file =  
"Tools/Ant/${JarName}.jar" />
    </target>
    <target name = "Install-Jar" >
        <available property = "${JarName}.jar-exists" file = "/usr/ 
share/ant/lib/${JarName}.jar" type = "file" />
        <antcall target = "Copy-Jar" />
    </target>

    <target name = "install">
        <antcall target = "Install-Jar" >
            <param name = "JarName" value = "bsf" />
        </antcall>
        <antcall target = "Install-Jar" >
            <param name = "JarName" value = "commons-logging-1.1" />
        </antcall>
        <antcall target = "Install-Jar" >
            <param name = "JarName" value = "js" />
        </antcall>
        <antcall target = "Install-Jar" >
            <param name = "JarName" value = "ant-apache-bsf-1.7.0" />
        </antcall>
    </target>

I'm still somewhat new to ant, so I feel like I may be doing things  
the hard way, is there any easier way to do this, namely one that  
involves combining Install-Jar and Copy-Jar tasks?

Thanks!

Francisco

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