if you use the same buildfiles on your local codebase and your continuous integration buildserver, the if-attribute for ant's targets comes in handy...

for this ant buildfile snippet to only create+publish javadoc when executed on the buildserver, the buildserver only has to set the referred system property, e.g. on its startup by using a Java D-option "-Dcontinuous.build=true" ...

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This example shows a build script written in Groovy using the AntBuilder.
No more angle bracket to bother you!