Change the Result Text in Ant

Question

Ant finishes by printing:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: x minute y seconds

Is there an easy way to customize that text? Sometimes I'm not using Ant to build, but for other batch processes, and I'd like to avoid seeing BUILD SUCCESSFUL when no build was attempted.

Answer 1

This message is issued by the default BuildLogger ant uses. See this for the list of builtin loggers ant provides.

If you want something special, you can simply run ant with:

ant -logger org.apache.tools.ant.NoBannerLogger

for example, or use your own implementation of the BuildLogger interface. The easiest way is to derive from DefaultLogger, overriding whant you want to change. You can for example implement your own

public void buildFinished(BuildEvent event)

method, if you want customized ending messages.