You must have something like this into your Ant build.xml file:
<project name="OwnTaskExample" default="main" basedir=".">
<!-- task definition -->
<taskdef name="plantuml" classname="net.sourceforge.plantuml.ant.PlantUmlTask" classpath="plantuml.jar" />
<!-- process ./src files -->
<target name="main">
<plantuml dir="./src" />
</target>
</project>
The Ant task processes all .c, .h, .cpp, .tex, .html, .htm or .java of the provided directory (./src in this example). It looks for @startXYZ and generates .png images.
You can also specify a output directory for all generated images, using
output tag.
<!-- Put images in c:/images directory -->
<target name="main">
<plantuml dir="./src" output="c:/images" />
</target>
You can also use Ant standard fileset or filelist.
For example, if you want to process all java file in c:/src and subdirectories, (except files ending by Test.java), and generate images into d:/images, you can use:
<target name="main">
<plantuml output="d:/images" >
<fileset dir="c:/src">
<include name="**/*.java" />
<exclude name="**/*Test.java" />
</fileset>
</target>
## SVG or EPS Support
You can also use ``format="svg"`` or ``format="eps"`` in the **Ant** task definition.
## Configuration file
You can also provide a configuration file which will be included before each diagram.
```
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| nbthread | 1 | Number of thread for processing |
| graphvizDot | Path of the dot executable | |
| format | png | Format for image generation: xmi, xmi:argo, xmi:start, eps, svg, txt, utxt |
| verbose | false |
true for more logs |
| config | File config to include before all diagrams | |
| charset | Charset to use when reading files | |
| output | Output directory for generated images | |
| dir | Input directory to process (You can use <fileset>/<filelist> instead) |
|
| failonerror | false |
true to fail the build if some syntax error occurs |
| checkonly | false |
true if you want to only check the syntax of files without generating images |
| overwrite | false |
true if you want overwrite read-only files |
| enablestats | false |
true to enable statistics |
| htmlstats | false |
true to output general statistics in file plantuml-stats.html |
| xmlstats | false |
true to output general statistics in file plantuml-stats.xml |
| realtimestats | false |
true to generate statistics on the fly rather than at the end |