Running P2 Ant tasks outside Eclipse

Question

I got ant script running fine inside Eclipse Here is a piece of it :

Answer 1

By reading this thread and the P2 Publisher documentation, it should be in org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_*.jar

Example of a P2 task (not an ant task here) just for the -jar argument:

java -jar /plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_*.jar
 -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.publisher.UpdateSitePublisher
 -metadataRepository file://repository
 -artifactRepository file://repository
 -source /
 -configs gtk.linux.x86
 -compress 
 -publishArtifacts

The P2 Ant tasks are described here, and in the Eclipse help.

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The OP Anthony43 adds in the comments:

I just want to run an an ant target with p2 taskdefs, outside of eclipse.
I found out that I should use antRunner, using such a command line :

./eclipse -vm /opt/sun-java2-6.0/bin/java -nosplash \
-data ${java.io.tmpdir}/workspace -consolelog       \
-application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner         \
-f /path/to/scripts/partialMirrorFromRepo.xml 

But Andrew Niefer (Eclipse committer on PDE/Build, p2, & Equinox Framework) adds:

The p2 tasks need to be run inside an osgi environment and won't work in a normal ant run.
That is why you need to use the org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner application.
Starting with "java -jar launcher.jar" is just an alternate method to invoking the eclipse executable.

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martin jakubik mentions:

I would have liked to see a command that I could cut&paste and that put everything together.
What I used was:

java -jar \eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_*.jar -application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner. 

Note that I could not figure out what was, so I used instead.