running build.xml ant from another directory

Question

can we run ant build.xml outide our java workspave as an example another directory.cause I wanna put the whole java project in anoter directory and run the buildfile with ant somewhere else, please help, also is it possible to export the report also in one file in another directory?

Answer 1

Use the buildfile command line option, for example:

ant -buildfile pathetoanotherdirectory/build.xml