What's the difference between a nested path and fileset?

Question

I have been googling for the \"Differences between fileset and path\" article for some time, but have found nothing useful. For example, what is the difference between the follo

Answer 1

They are used in different situations.

fileset is used to specify a group of files. You can use selectors and patternsets to get only the files you want.

classpath is used to specify classpath references. classpath can be specified with a single jar (location="..."), a ; or : separated list of jars (path="...") or with nested resource collections (like fileset).

Also if you want to debug them, it is different:

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As for your scripts,

I did not test it but according to the documentation path= expects a ; or : separated list of jars. This is not the same as your second example.