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Chapter 4: Working with Listeners and Loggers

Listeners are components that respond to specific events, triggering an action during the life of a build. A build process provides an automated method to generate and run applications. Loggers record information about the output of events to which listeners respond.

This chapter describes the built-in loggers and listeners that Ant provides. It also explains user-defined listeners and loggers.

Overview

Listeners respond to the occurrence of various events while a build is in progress. The events include starting and finishing a build process. The occurrence of the following events triggers various actions in listeners:



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