Can ANT be used here ???

Question

i want to invoke the default email client (DrClap , i know there's no concept, as such, of a default email client...hehe , but i guess u do understand what i want to say) . through a java program ....
what i want is that , the "TO:" , "Cc:", "Bcc:" , "Subject:" fields shud be set by the program itself ..... what essentially the user wud be left with wud be to press the send button ( i can do away with that later)... the emailclient shud come up with a compose window with the "TO:" , "Cc:", "Bcc:" , "Subject:" fields set .....
i also want to attach a file ( actually this is more important ) , the file shud be attached when the compose window comes up
I want to know if ANT can be used here ( although i have been asked to use it , but i m new to ANT , so i dont know) .. also give me a few hints on how to go abt it
do care to help .....

Answer 1

Hi,
An email client is meant to be used for sending emails to multiple number of people and as such would not provide a mechanism to set the To, From and Cc fields pre-populated. Not unless it is something you have written and have provided an api to set the fields.
If you don't want to launch the email client but instead just use the API to set the fields to the desired values and send an email, then you can try Java mail API.
Ant is a build tool that can also run other tasks like run a external command etc. Ant has no means to populate the fields of your favourite email client be it outlook, eudora or netscape mail.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
vidyut