Anthony Rodriguez wrote:
>Do you have a link to the documentation on the <parallel> task? I looked at
>the ant docs and could not find it.
>
>-Anthony
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthew Inger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:43 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: how do I to tell ANT not to wait for a task to finish?
>
>
>CAMPANA,SAL (HP-Philadelphia,ex1) wrote:
>
>>Is there a way to make a task run and continue through the ant script
>>without waiting for the task to end?
>>
>>For instance, I want to start an external application, then start another
>>
>to
>
>>interact with that application.
>>
>>It seems that ANT only runs sequentially and waits for a task to finish
>>before moving to the next task. This makes total sense for building my
>>classes, but I'd love to be able to spawn separate threads of execution
>>without waiting.
>>
>>One way I did it was to call a batch file which started my app. The batch
>>file will die after it executes the command and the ANT file moves on....
>>
>>Any ideas? Am I missing something?
>>
>>Thank you!
>>
>look at ant 1.4 beta..., specifically the "parallel" task. It allows
>you to run several tasks at the same
>time. Say for instance, a server process, and a client process that
>talks to the server process.
>
>
did you look at the 1.4 beta docs? It's new to 1.4....
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