I presume this approach is platform independent? ant.bat is "dos"
ant.sh is "unix" build.exe is "dos" Your approach I like best if it runs anywhere as I expect it should. Adam Murdoch wrote: > > Hi, > > I put together a Java-based launcher a while ago, plus a task which builds > custom application launchers. The launchers are assembled into Jar files > that can be run with "java -jar". > > A quick description of what the launcher does: > > When the launcher starts up, it builds up a classpath from the system > classpath, plus whatever .jar and .zip files it finds in various > directories. The directories to search are customisable, and can be > specified as an absolute path, a path relative to the working dir, or a path > relative to the directory containing the launcher Jar. > > It includes some hackery to locate tools.jar and add it to the classpath, if > needed. > > Once the classpath is built, the launcher invokes the main() method of the > app's main class. The main class name is customisable. > > I have used the task to build launchers for a bunch of apps, including ant. > No need to set JAVA_HOME or ANT_HOME - it figures it all out. > > I feel it would be useful for ant to provide a task like this. Every Java > app has - to some degree or other - the same problems that ant has with > launching itself. Whatever solution ant comes up with, we should try to > make generally available. > > I can send in what I have. It needs some work to fit a little better with > ant. In particular, it uses some Java 2 stuff, to locate the launcher Jar, > and to build a classloader. I think AntClassLoader could be used instead > (need to abstract out the dependency on a Project). > > Adam > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, 8 July 2001 9:26 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: build.exe > > > > > > From: "Nico Seessle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Others: Do you think it would be useful to add this (as ant.exe) to the > > Ant > > > Distribution, so we can avoid future problems with ant.bat? > > > > > > > I'm happy to have it in there as source, but I think the real solution is > > to move this processing into Java code, not C++. That is the > > approach taken > > by most of the Ant2 proposals. I might play around with a Java based > > launcher. > > > > Conor > > > > > >
