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      |  |  | Description |  | 
This task takes one or more filenames and turns them into URLs, which it then assigns to a property.
Useful when setting up RMI or JNLP codebases, for example.
Nested filesets are supported; if present, these are turned into the URLs with the supplied separator between them (default: space).
Examples: 
<makeurl file="${user.home}/.m2/repository" property="m2.repository.url"/>
Sets the propertym2.repository.urlto the file: URL of the local Maven2 repository.
<makeurl property="codebase"><fileset dir="lib includes="*.jar"/></makeurl>
Set the property codebaseto the three URLs of the files provided as nested elements. |  
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        | Attribute | Description | Type | Requirement |  
        | file | name of a file to be converted into a URL | File | optional, if a nested fileset or path is supplied |  
        | property | name of a property to set to the URL | String | required |  
        | separator | separator for the multi-URL option | String | optional |  
        | validate | validate that every named file exists | boolean | optional; default: true |  |  
      |  |  | Parameters as nested elements |  | 
    
    
      |  |  | fileset (org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet) |  | 
        A fileset of JAR files to include in the URL list, each separated by the separator.
 
 
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      |  |  | path (org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path) |  | 
        Add a path to the URL. All elements in the path will be converted to individual URL entries.
 
 
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