Recently, I and others have been discussing the lack of support for building ejb jars suitable for inclusion in EAR files where the ejb jars are dependent on other, non-ejb jars. The problem is that in this situation, the ejb jar mush have an EAR-relative classpath attribute listing all the non-ejb jars, but there's no (non-kludged) way to generate such an EAR-relative classpath list in Ant. (I can post my highly kludged approach if anyone is interested.)
I would like to extend the existing Manifest task to take a nested classpath element, which would generate a class-path attribute from a contained fileset, doing path substitution to go from filesystem-absolute to EAR-relative paths. I haven't worked out the detailed syntax and semantics yet, but before I do so, I'd like to ask four things: 1. Am I missing some existing way to do this, in either the release or dev Ant versions? 2. If not, is anyone else working on something similar already? 3. If not 1 or 2, are there problems with my proposed approach? 4. If none of the above apply, and if I were to develop such an extension, would it be welcome as a contribution? Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. -- Craig Berry Principal Architect and Technical Manager PortBlue (310) 566-7546 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
