===== Apache Ant =====

=== Debugging Ant ===
To debug Ant you can enable let ant wait for the debugger to attach,
then you may attach to the debugger from Eclipse IDE.

To make a java application wait for debugger to attach the following JVM params have to be passed to it 
<code>
**-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=1044**
</code>
To Ant they may be passed via the environment param **ANT_OPTS** \\
After that you can launch the ant applicaion.
<code>
cls

$env:ANT_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=1044"
echo ($env:ANT_OPTS)

#ant createXLSFile
ant writeProperties
</code>


To attach with the debugger with Eclipse IDE use the Debug COnfiguration and set the Breaking Point, to stop on an uncatched Exception \\
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