How To Pass Command Line Arguments To Ant Task / Script

Ant is a popular, high quality Java based build and deployment tool from Apache Foundation. You can invoke Java programs in ant using the java task. Optionally you may want to pass it command line arguments. Here is how you can do it.

ant -Dclass=class.name -Dargs=”optional multiple arguments enclosed within double quotes” run

You can access it within your java task as follows:

[java fork="yes" classname="${class}" >
    ....
    [arg line="${args}"/>
[/java>

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