The aim is to introduce <extension-point/> elements to the NetBeans Ant build scripts. [Extension points][manual_extensions] are introduced to Apache Ant in version 1.8. This is the minimum version to perform the build of the NetBeans Platform itself.
The build of a NetBeans Platform Module and a NetBeans Platform based module with Ant
is a little bit different. The Platform itself uses the nbbuild-folder, the RCP Modules
are using the harness folder. There is one script file, common.xml, which both have
in common. The other files are in nbbuild or in apisupport.harness/release. Both
build should work after the introduction of entry points.