Does Ant offer a way to bypass dependency?

Question

The build.xml has a test and a build target. The test target obviously depends on the build target.

How can I run the test target on

Answer 1

No, you can't skip it without modifying the build file.

Here is what I do in my projects to solve this issue. For every public target I will create a private target with "do-" in front of it. The private target has no dependency, and the public target has the "do-" target as a dependency.

For example: