ANT: Using conditional tags,

Question

I would like to do something like this

Answer 1

The standard ant way would be something like =

A snippet with the Ant Plugin Flaka, a recent alternative to antcontrib. Installation in Eclipse as usual via
Preferences | Ant | Runtime | Global Entries | ant-flaka-1.02.-1.02.jar =

  
  
    
  

    
    
     
     
        
        ..starting ProductionBuild
     
     
        
    ..starting TestBuild
   
    
     
      
       
      
        .. is DummyBuild
     
    

output with ant -f build.xml -Dbuildtype=prod or
ant -f build.xml -Dbuildtype=prod -Ddummybuild=whatever

[echo] ..starting ProductionBuild

output with typo => ant - build.xml -Dbuildtype=testt

BUILD FAILED
/home/rosebud/workspace/AntTest/build.xml:21: No valid buildtype !, found => 'testt'

output with ant -f build.xml -Ddummybuild=whatever

[echo] .. is DummyBuild