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<h1>Tasks Designed for Extension</h1>

<p>These classes are designed to be extended.  Always start here when writing your own task.</p>

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<a href="api/org/apache/tools/ant/Task.html">Task</a>
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Base class for all tasks.
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<a href="api/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/AbstractCvsTask.html">AbstractCvsTask</a>
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Another task can extend this with some customized output processing
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<a href="api/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/JDBCTask.html">JDBCTask</a>
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Handles JDBC configuration needed by SQL type tasks.
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<a href="api/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MatchingTask.html">MatchingTask</a>
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This is an abstract task that should be used by all those tasks that require to include or exclude files based on pattern matching.
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<a href="api/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Pack.html">Pack</a>
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Abstract Base class for pack tasks.
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<a href="api/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Unpack.html">Unpack</a>
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Abstract Base class for unpack tasks.
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<a href="api/org/apache/tools/ant/dispatch/DispatchTask.html">DispatchTask</a>
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Abstract Base class for tasks that may have multiple actions.
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