How to put comment in Ant | Comments in Apache Ant

Method 1:

<!– Comments are just as important in buildfiles, do not –>
<!– avoid writing them! –>
<!– Example build file for “Ant: The Definitive Guide” –>
<!– and its sample project: irssibot –>

Method 2: Echo
Description
Writes a message to the Ant logging facilities. A message may be supplied
as nested text to this task.
Echoes a message to the current loggers and listeners which means System.out unless overridden. A level can be specified, which controls at what logging level the message is filtered at.
The task can also echo to a file, in which case the option to append rather than overwrite the file is available, and the level option is ignored

Parameters

Examples
Style 1:
<echo message=”Hello, world”/>

Style 2:
<echo message=”Embed a line break:${line.separator}”/>

Style 3:
<echo>Embed another:${line.separator}</echo>

Style 4:
<echo>This is a longer message stretching over
two lines.
</echo>

Style 5:
<echo>
This is a longer message stretching over
three lines; the first line is a blank
</echo>

Style 5:
<echo message=”Deleting drive C:” level=”debug”/>
A message which only appears in -debug mode.

Style 6:
<echo level=”error”>
Imminent failure in the antimatter containment facility.
Please withdraw to safe location at least 50km away.
</echo>
A message which appears even in -quiet mode.

Style 7:
<echo file=”runner.csh” append=”false”>#\!/bin/tcsh
java-1.3.1 -mx1024m ${project.entrypoint} $$*
</echo>
Generate a shell script by echoing to a file. Note the use of a double $ symbol to stop Ant filtering out the single $ during variable expansion
Depending on the loglevel Ant runs, messages are print out or silently ignored:

Method 3:
Description

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