On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > The latest build system distinguishes between jdk 1.2/1.3 and jdk 1.4. > The resulting target should only be used with the jdk used to > build Cocoon. > > We created our own ant task, the class-available task, to avoid some > dependency problems. Usually ant searches for classes not only in > the path set in the build file but also in the system classpath. > > So, if this feature is used and you build with JDK 1.4 you have > for example the jndi classes in your path and the optional components > depending on this classes are also build and added to the web > application. If you now run this with a JDK 1.3 where the jndi classes > are missing, you might get problems... > So, these cases are the main reason for our own task. > > But with our own task the jndi classes of the JDK 1.4 are not found > as our class-available task only searches in the "local" classpath > but not in the system classpath. Therefore the optional components > are never build. > > So, we have two options: > a) Change the "local" classpath and add for example the "rt.jar". > b) Switch to the original ant task and assume that when you build > Cocoon with a given (system)classpath that this will also be > the classpath you use for running Cocoon. > > From the mass of complains over the last months, I vote for b) > with some additional messages/documentation indicating this problem.
I havn't followed the hole thread but the available task from ant allows to say ignoresystemclasses="yes" (see http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/CoreTasks/available.html). Is this achieving the same result as our class-available task? Giacomo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
