Hello,
I'm integrating ant into an IDE as the primary compilation tool, and
was hoping to be able to trivially invoke ant as if it were invoked
from a shell prompt. Unfortunately, the 'main' method in
org.apache.tools.ant.Main invokes System.exit(), and the Main
constructor and 'runBuild' methods are protected and private,
respectively.
So, my only option given the standard binaries is to duplicate the
command-line options that ant currently parses, and interface with the
Project class directly. I'd rather not do that, because I'd like the
users of this IDE to pretty much use the ant command line interface
as-is.
For the time being, I have patched Main.java (see patch below) to set
the access for both the constructor and the 'runBuild' method to
public. In the long term, I'd like to see these changes or some
similar mechanism for trivially invoking ant rolled into the Jakarta
sources, so I can ship the IDE with a standard jar rather than a
patched one.
Thanks,
-Patrick
Index: ./src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Main.java
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RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Main.java,v
retrieving revision 1.33
diff -u -r1.33 Main.java
--- ./src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Main.java 2001/03/16 14:27:12 1.33
+++ ./src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Main.java 2001/04/10 00:18:49
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
}
}
- protected Main(String[] args) throws BuildException {
+ public Main(String[] args) throws BuildException {
String searchForThis = null;
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
/**
* Executes the build.
*/
- private void runBuild() throws BuildException {
+ public void runBuild() throws BuildException {
if (!readyToRun) {
return;
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Patrick Linskey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software Engineer phone: 202.349.2577
TechTrader, Inc. www.techtrader.com
