for-while loop with ant (number of time that defined in runtime)

it is sometimes needed to iterate the process number of times that defined in runtime. if you had used a programing language like java,C,C++ etc. , It would have been very easy to make it. but infect in ant it is some hard to do it without 3rd party libraries. below ant snipped part is a way to achive this. enjoy it.

	<xmltask source="${file}" dest="${file}">
	<copy path="count(/*[local-name()='definitions']/*[local-name()='portType']/*[local-name()='operation'])" property="countNumber"/>
	</xmltask>
	<script language="beanshell">
	<classpath>
	<fileset dir="${library.dir}">
	<include name="*.jar" />
	</fileset>
	</classpath>
	<![CDATA[
	print("countNumber : " + countNumber);
	int count = new Integer(countNumber).intValue();
	String forLoopString = "";
	for (int i=0; i < count; i++)
	{
	forLoopString+=(i+1)+",";
	}
	print("forLoopString : " + forLoopString);
	project.setProperty("forLoopString",forLoopString);
	project.setUserProperty("forLoopString",forLoopString);
	]]>
	</script>
	<for param="instance" list="${forLoopString}" >
	<sequential>
	<echo> instance : @{instance} </echo>
	</sequential>
	</for>

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