How to use labminder( Vmware labmanager SOAP) libraries with ant

In order to use any thirdparty library with your ant installation, you need to specify the namespace and the antlib options

In my case I was trying to use labminder ( available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/labminder/files/AntTasks/1.0.0-VMware3.0.1/labminder-1.0.0-VMware3.0.1.zip/download)

Downloaded labminder-1.0.0-VMware3.0.1.zip and extracted the contents into a directory
The directory contained two main folders
doc and lib , a README.html and a demo.xml file
Doc: contains the instructions on how to use the library

You will need to copy the contents on the lib directory into %ANT_HOME%/lib/labminder

This makes it available to ant for use

How to use:

In your build.xml file , you will have to make the below namespace and antlib declaration

<project name="your-project"
xmlns:LabMinder="antlib:org.labminder.ant.tasks" default="main">

Calling the traget:

<target name="listworkspaces"
description="list configurations for configration type Workspace.">

<LabMinder:ListConfigurations username="${labmgr.user}"
password="${labmgr.password}" host="${labmgr.host}"
configurationtype="Workspace" organization="${labmgr.organization}" />
</target>


FROM THE ANT MANUAL:

Ant supports a plugin mechanism for using third party tasks. For using them you have to do two steps:

1. place their implementation somewhere where Ant can find them
2. declare them.

Don't add anything to the CLASSPATH environment variable - this is often the reason for very obscure errors. Use Ant's own mechanisms for adding libraries:

* via command line argument -lib
* adding to ${user.home}/.ant/lib
* adding to ${ant.home}/lib

For the declaration there are several ways:

* declare a single task per using instruction using

* declare a bundle of tasks using a properties-file holding these taskname-ImplementationClass-pairs and

* declare a bundle of tasks using a xml-file holding these taskname-ImplementationClass-pairs and

* declare a bundle of tasks using a xml-file named antlib.xml, XML-namespace and antlib: protocoll handler