Is there a way for my eclipse project to inherit the build classpath from existing Ant build.xml files? It would be nice if I didn't have to keep the eclipse project and the ant build in sync!
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Off-hand, I'd say no, but see here http://www.ant4eclipse.org/node/6 for an attempt at doing the opposite (keeping the Ant build path in sync with Eclipse). Maybe that's of some use?
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Another option would be is for both ant and eclipse to point to a common file specifying dependencies, independent from both ant and eclipse.
You can do this with ivy (http://ant.apache.org/ivy/), which has both tasks for ant and a eclipse ide plugin. ivy also solves the third-party library dependency management problem (you create a central repository of all third-party dependencies in your company which are pulled down as needed, rather than keeping .jar files with each project).
It takes a little time to create the initial ivy repository by copying libraries from maven, but is well worth it longer-term.
