Matt Koss wrote: > I am trying to understand the execution loop of the task. > > I have written a custom task and I have put the initialisation code inside of > the init() method. > I thought that init() method is called only once ( for taskdef ) and that > execute() method is then called for each occurence of the custom task. > > However, init() method is called for each occurence of my task. > Is this the correct behaviour ? >
This is correct. Taskdef does not create an instance of your task. It creates a mapping from a taskname to a Java class. There will be a new instance of your custom task for each instance in the XML. Check out the following link for the lifecyle of a task and when init() is called relative to execute(). http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/develop.html#writingowntask Conor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
