Pre and Post Build Options Without Ant

I think it would be immensely useful for a future release of Irida to have a section of configurable pre and post build tasks for any project type. As posted in the Community section, this can be done with Ant but I was hoping to be able to have this feature available for use in the IDE without Ant.

Examples:

• Build JAR file of any directory or logically build JAR of all classes and potentially include a main-class in the MANIFEST

• Abilty to specify where to copy this JAR.

• Copy all exploded project files to any location specified.

Some of this functionaly exists for Web Applications where you can specify you want a WAR file built or an exploded directory deployed.

I think there needs to be the ability to add as many pre/post build tasks as desired per module per project. This allows us to create 3 JAR files if desired or have two exploded WAR file directories. Possibly allowing us to remove or add a jar to one of the WAR file exploded directories that make it compatible to more than application server by using a copy task.

This kind of stuff gives us extreme flexibility.

Just my 2 cents.