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

Use the unless attribute.

If you don't want "test" to run, just

ant -Ddont.run.tests=true

It should be undefined if you want the tests to run. Ant just checks for whether it's defined at all. Also, there's an if attribute that does the converse.

Here's an article on the both.