Output several timestamps in ant

Question

The Ant buildfile snippet below is an attempt to simply output the time before and after each sql script is run. I cannot change the structure of the Ant targets (create-ta

Answer 1

Update: You can use an antcall to invoke a task, and create/echo a new timestamp within the scope of that call.

This example shows how to pass a message to the call and echo the current timestamp with a message:

The output when this is run is:

test:

timestamp2:
     [echo] hello 09/24/2009 05:33:22 PM

timestamp2:
     [echo] world 09/24/2009 05:33:24 PM