Developing Ant tasks and types within Eclipse

The following guidelines should be followed when developing and debugging Ant tasks and types within Eclipse. These requirements stem from the fact that Ant tasks and types must be loaded by the Ant classloader, rather than a plug-in classloader, when Ant is run in the same VM as Eclipse. To avoid having the Ant tasks and types loaded by a plug-in classloader, the tasks and types need to be stored in a location that is not visible to any plug-in classloader. Also see Contributing tasks and types.

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