OK, so I didn't really detail the extent pain it took to get Ant built from source in Eclipse. It essentially took downloading the source (either from SVN or the source download page) and importing it into eclipse. There are a number of ways to accomplish this. The next stage was to see how many errors you get when you try and compile. LOTS. So there are a ton of errors that essentially are similar to errors you get when using a class that you have no import statement for. In this case, there were all the import statements but Eclipse couldn't 'find' the class files. OK, so off to the Ant manual. In the installation instructions there is a dependency table with a list of libraries and their uses within Ant. Just about all of them were necessary. So I had to download the jar and then link to it in my Eclipse project. 15 libraries later, we're at 0 errors and open for business. Could their be another way? Well I have heard that Maven supposedly solves this problem but I Don't think Maven and Ant like each other too well so maybe that's the reason its awkward.
Sam
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