# Tasks Designed for Extension

These classes are designed to be extended. Always start here when writing your own task.

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Class | Description
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Task | Base class for all tasks.
AbstractCvsTask | Another task can extend this with some customized output processing.
JDBCTask | Handles JDBC configuration needed by SQL type tasks.
MatchingTask | This is an abstract task that should be used by all those tasks that require to include or exclude files based on pattern matching.
Pack | Abstract Base class for pack tasks.
Unpack | Abstract Base class for unpack tasks.
DispatchTask | Abstract Base class for tasks that may have multiple actions.