----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Riddell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 16:16 Subject: Re: Calling Ant from Java: An example please ?
> Thank you all that have responded. . . but I still need help ;-) > > Of all the response so far, the most relevant of which has been > "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who quoted some > of Ant's testcases. However, I'd rather not implement it where > it requires the use of an build.xml file. Reasons? > - speed > - need for inclusion of an XML parser in my final distribution. > > Rather, I would like an ALL JAVA, ALL SOURCE CODE, NO EXTRA JAR solution. > > What this means is that I *REALLY* want to figure out how to use the ANT > API to run the Javac task. > > Any help in THAT direction would be much appreciated. Well, I think if you want to use ant you have to relax your 'no XML parser rule'. Ant provides an invocation model for container apps which uses an XML file as the description language for containers so that the containers are decoupled from a lot of the implementation details. People have changed how <javac> works in the past, quite radically, and nobody has noticed in their build files because of the use of a declarative syntax. If all you want is to use the java compiler, look at how ant calls it in its tasks, cut and paste the code. You will need tools.jar on the classpath, of course -steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
