Coming from IDEA I wouldn't settle for anything less than the 2.1 of eclipse, even it was still shaky at the time. Real men should not be afraid of any latest and greatest, only the last 2.1-RC1 broke my activity on the hibernate testing quite a bit...While everything worked in plain ant and in eclipse 2.1-M4, it would give me a quite odd 'ClassCastException' on the interpretation of a in the newest release.

After some needless looking into maybe incompatible jars and classpaths I went into stupid trial and error mode with some succes. I added my workarounds finally in their bugzilla and am now starting to wonder if a task like shouldn't always be inside a target. Stating that it just works in plain ant is maybe not the real argument? Have to check some ant code and doco's I guess. It shows in every case that the ant-build-file-parser inside the eclipse-ant-view is redoing (differently) stuff done already by the ant run-time...

The good news on the RC1: //TODO now adds directly the item into the Tasks View

One last thing, I promised Tom I would praise his eclipse consulting skills.

*update* snap eclipse developers have found the bug to be somewhere in their fast-parsing for targets that is in their ant-view thingy.... So trying to find a CCE reason I guess they just try to map all direct childnodes of to be of type or something?