<b><i>(since 2.3) (Ant 1.7 required)</i></b> <tt>ivy:resources</tt> is an Ant <a href="http://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/resources.html#collection">resource collection</a>, which files are based on an Ivy resolve, and then can be used with any task which is working with resources like <tt>copy</tt> or <tt>import</tt>. This datatype share the same attributes, child elements and behaviour of a [[ant:postresolvetask post resolve task]]. It is not expected to be used as an Ant task though, only as a resource collection. <h1>Examples</h1> <code type="xml"> <ivy:resources file="path/to/ivy.xml"/> </code> Build a resource collection of every artifacts of all dependencies declared in path/to/ivy.xml file. <hr/> <code type="xml"> <ivy:resources file="path/to/ivy.xml" transitive="false" /> </code> Same as above, but with transitive dependencies disabled. <hr/> <code type="xml"> <ivy:resources file="path/to/ivy.xml" conf="default, test"/> </code> Build a resource collection of every artifacts of the dependencies declared in the configuration default and test of the path/to/ivy.xml file. <hr/> <code type="xml"> <ivy:resources file="path/to/ivy.xml" type="jar"/> </code> Build a resource collection of every jar artifact of all dependencies declared in path/to/ivy.xml file. <hr/> <code type="xml"> <ivy:resources organisation="apache" module="commons-lang" revision="2+" inline="true" /> </code> Build a resource collection of every artifacts of commons-lang module revision 2+ from the repository, with its dependencies. <hr/> <code type="xml"> <ivy:resources> <dependency org="apache" module="commons-lang" rev="2+" /> <dependency org="apache" module="commons-logging" rev="1.1" /> <exclude org="apache" module="log4j" /> </ivy:resources> </code> Build a resource collection of every artifacts of both commons lang and commons logging, with their dependencies but not log4j. <hr/> <code type="xml"> <ivy:resources> <dependency org="org.slf4j" module="slf4j" rev="1.6" conf="api,log4j" /> </ivy:resources> </code> Build a resource collection of every artifacts of the configurations "api" and "log4j" of "slf4j".