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Provide an independent Ant view to which you can register Ant files (e.g. using drag & drop and/ or a file dialog) so one can easily execute custom Ant task without having to locate the Ant file first in the Projects/ Files view. This Ant view should also be available for Maven projects as they may contain custom Ant files as well. Note: Other IDEs such as Eclipse and IntelliJ already provide such a view.
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss