I'm a relative newcomer to Ant - only been writing build.xml files for about 8 months. To avoid huge lists of unresolved symbols at compile time, I provide checking for the presence of required jar files prior to kicking off the compile step. I've put a shortened version of the relevant section from my build.xml at the end of this message. The issue I have is that in order to do this, I've had to list my jar files 3 different times: for the echo, for the condition, and finally for the classpath. My actual set of jars is much longer, so this becomes a maintenance headache. Is there any way I can accomplish the same thing without repeating the set of files? I can of course use a fileset for the classpath, but from what I read in the Ant manual, there is no way to use a fileset for either the echo task or the condition task. I appreciate all pointers.
<target name="checkinputjars"> <echo>Checking for required input jars</echo> <echo>"${deploy_dir}/lib/xml.jar"</echo> <echo>"${deploy_dir}/lib/jce1_2_1.jar"</echo> <echo>"${deploy_dir}/lib/sunjce_provider.jar"</echo> <condition property="inputjarsavailable"> <and> <available file="${deploy_dir}/lib/xml.jar"/> <available file="${deploy_dir}/lib/jce1_2_1.jar"/> <available file="${deploy_dir}/lib/sunjce_provider.jar"/> </and> </condition> </target> <target name="inform_no_input_jars" depends="checkinputjars" unless="inputjarsavailable"> <fail message="ERROR! Could not find the required input JAR files"/> </target> <target name="build" depends="inform_no_props, inform_no_input_jars, init"> <javac debug="on" destdir="${build}"> <classpath> <pathelement location="${deploy_dir}/lib/xml.jar"/> <pathelement location="${deploy_dir}/lib/jce1_2_1.jar"/> <pathelement location="${deploy_dir}/lib/sunjce_provider.jar"/> </classpath> </javac> </target> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>