title: How can I exclude a list of files (held in a file) from an Ant fileset?
body: <p>Is there a way to have an Ant Fileset->IncludesFile attribute take a property file OR any other file that contains a list of Java class files to exclude?</p>
  
  <p>Eg:</p>
  
  <p>File A.properties OR A.java contains listing</p>
  
  <pre>
  abc.class 
  mno.class 
  xyz.class 
  </pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to say to point excludesFile to file A.properties.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;fileset dir="..."&gt;
      &lt;excludesFile file="A.properties" /&gt;
  &lt;/fileset&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The behavior that I want is when Java runs, it excludes the Java files listed in this file (A.properties)</p>