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CFANT - Undocumented ColdFusion tag

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posted Thursday, 24 May 2007

A while back my colleague James mentioned a hidden cfant tag for running ant build files. I finally got around to playing with it. It's still not clear what all the arguments are for despite their seemingly obvious names. The usual disclaimer about using undocumented tags/features applies!

 
<cfant buildFile="completePathToBuildFile"
 defaultDirectory="seemsTobeIgnoredButMustBePresent"
 anthome="alsoSeemsToBeIgnoredButMayNeedToHaveAnEnvironmentVariableSetup"
 messages="coldFusionVariableToHoldOutPutMessages"
 target="defaultTarget"
/>

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comments (5)


1. Douglas Knudsen left...
Thursday, 24 May 2007 3:27 pm :: http://www.cubicleman.com

interesting....this after I spent a whole day getting cfexecute to fire off Ant.


2. Russ Johnson left...
Thursday, 24 May 2007 5:52 pm :: http://www.angry-fly.com

Yeah... I second that Douglas! I spent a lot of time working on a build manager for CF and Ant using subversion to check out builds. This tag sure would have made things easier on me!!


3. Rob Brooks-Bilson left...
Thursday, 24 May 2007 7:48 pm :: http://www.brooks-bilson.com/blogs/rob/

This is very cool. I wonder if it will become an "official" tag in Scorpio?


4. Daniel Lancelot left...
Saturday, 28 July 2007 9:33 pm :: http://www.danlance.co.uk

Has anyone tried this on CF8?


5. Jun left...
Thursday, 10 July 2008 6:50 am :: http://spread-1.xrea.jp/

It became reference very much. Thank you.