destination directories

Is there a way to let ant create the directories which are needed for java classes which are in packages ??? for example a file class.java is in the package crosswordpuzzle.util. now i want ant to compile the file and create the directories by himself, so i can say dest="${temp.dir}" and the c

RE: Adding/extending a manifest using

Could you post a snippet of your targets, if they're not proprietary? -Original Message- From: Donnie Hale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:03 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Adding/extending a manifest using I don't have 75 beans, but I have 6 and buil

Re: Best Practices

At 13:56 10/01/2002 +1100, Evan McLean wrote: >I have a build file which has several targets that all depend on another >target. A cut down example for this is: > > > > > > Each time you do an antcall, ant will do a separate set of dependency

Re: Build Failed

In your project line right at the very top whats your basedir? I don't knwo what your problem is, but i thought i'd give me 2pence :) - Original Message - From: "Michael Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:59 PM Subj

Re: Build Failed

You're right Stefan my basedir is being prepended to the directory but I don't know why that's happening. Line 212 is "optimize="@{compile.optimize}"/> the next line which I think is causing the problem is: ". "compile.classpath" is: fileset dir="${catalina.home}/common/lib"> etc,etc, so I don't

Re: Best Practices

Dave, You're going to have to forward emails to your own home address it seems. Hehe. T Master -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Best Practices

At 04:28 PM 9/01/02 -0700, Herman, Dave wrote: >Anyone who has suggestions, please send them to my home email address (can't >spend time on this while at work), and I'll start compiling them. I have a build file which has several targets that all depend on another target. A cut down example for

Re: Best Practices

ROTFLMAO Add: how to ask questions on the mailing lists. Add in the email addresses to subscribe, and unsubscribe. Add in the address of the archives too. - Original Message - From: "Donnie Hale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09,

RE: Adding/extending a manifest using

I just use ejbjar then use the jar task to update the manifest on its own See the archives for a discussion of the manifest updating capability of the jar task in Ant 1.4.1 jmp > -Original M

RE: Adding/extending a manifest using

I don't have 75 beans, but I have 6 and build them all with one target (not - actually 2, one for the vanilla ejb.jar and one to put that into ejbc) and won't have to change that if/when we add more beans. Don't know what to say about the manifest problem. Sorry... Donnie > -Original Mess

RE: Best Practices

Make the first one: "Please read the built-in and optional tasks page and the FAQ before asking, 'Is there a task that does such-and-such?'" That's a definite best practice. :) Donnie > -Original Message- > From: Herman, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2

Re: Adding/extending a manifest using

Howdy, The GenericDeploymentTool in CVS (http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/tas kdefs/optional/ejb/GenericDeploymentTool.java) has a workaround in which will pick up your manifest if it is named with descriptor_root_dir/base_name-manifest.mf . I don't

RE: init

--- Jim Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do most of mine like Diane. But I usually have an init target for > some things like and I have a script that converts SunOS to > Solaris and changes the 5.* version numbers to the public ones (2.6, > 2.7, 8). > > But I usually include "depends=init"

Adding/extending a manifest using

OK, I've haven't completely given up on using for my WebLogic 6.1 project. The reason I want to use it is that I have approximately 75 EJBs that I want to build and the target I've created that uses neatly creates each EJB with only one target. Using some of the other suggested methods (which

Re: Get target name

No, the target name(s) are not available, and this is done intentionally. What would you use the target name for? - Original Message - From: "Jim Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:42 PM Subject: Get target name > Is

Get target name

Is there an easy way to get the target name passed to ant. For example, ant has the "ant.version" property that is set. So what I'm looking for is something like "ant.target" which would be a list of targets that were called at the command line. Jim

RE: init

I do most of mine like Diane. But I usually have an init target for some things like and I have a script that converts SunOS to Solaris and changes the 5.* version numbers to the public ones (2.6, 2.7, 8). But I usually include "depends=init" in most of the targets. I think it's more of a

Re: Linkage error with new jspc task

- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 13:49 Subject: Re: Linkage error with new jspc task > > > Is it enough to force it to fork each time? Added > > java.setFork(true); > > to JasperC.java

RE: Perforce Optional Tasks

There is a Java interface for Perforce available now. I don't know if you would call it decent. But it works. It's available in the Perforce public depot. Look in Server: public.perforce.com:1666 Files: //public/perforce/api/java/p4package/... Or p4 web at: http://public.perforce.com:8080/

RE: Best Practices

> > Anyone who has suggestions, please send them to my home email > address (can't > spend time on this while at work), and I'll start compiling them. My home > address is: > Will do.. I'll order some of my ideas and write them up and send them to you. Ylan Segal. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <

Best Practices

It looks like there's enough interest. For those who missed it, we're starting to compile a set of "best practices" to make a page for the web site or addendum to the manual. Some examples: * task descriptions for -projecthelp * default "help" task * the "init" task * time stamps * etc. Anyone

RE: Best Practices (was Re: Init)

A best practices web page would be very useful. Ron -Original Message- From: Bevan Arps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:02 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Best Practices (was Re: Init) At 14:53 9/01/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Would people be interested in suc

Re: init

--- Joe Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there something wrong with this: > > > ... set some properties ... > > > > ... some tasks ... > > > as opposed to doing the init tasks outside of any target, which is what > most examples seem to do? I moved all that stuff to an init ta

RE: Best Practices (was Re: Init)

"Best Practices" page/site would be great. Also repository for user-contributed tasks... I'd be willing to help... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Best Practices (was Re: Init)

yes. - Original Message - From: "Bevan Arps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:01 PM Subject: Best Practices (was Re: Init) > At 14:53 9/01/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > >Would people be interested in such a web page? I'll be gl

RE: init

I've sent an email to Rolf asking if he's still working on antheap and if he'd like to help out with a best practices page. Dave > -Original Message- > From: Ylan Segal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:47 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: RE: init > > >

RE: init

> > >There was a similar effort in sourceforge, and I offered to help also but > >somehow never happened. > > > >You can see it at: > >http://antheap.sourceforge.net/ > > Just had a look at this - and it seems more oriented towards complete, > general purpose, build scripts than tips, tricks and

Re: Linkage error with new jspc task

>Something to do with Ant using Crimson.jar and jspc task requiring xerces that ships with Tomcat? That would be a good guess to test. Realise also that for in-proc tasks the ANT classloader puts itself in a special 'isolated' mode when it does not delegate to the parent loader (this would be

RE: init

At 16:11 9/01/2002 -0600, you wrote: >There was a similar effort in sourceforge, and I offered to help also but >somehow never happened. > >You can see it at: >http://antheap.sourceforge.net/ Just had a look at this - and it seems more oriented towards complete, general purpose, build scripts t

Re: Linkage error with new jspc task

Yeah, agreed...except that in this case I AM managing my classpath myself within the Ant target (see code at bottom), and I still get the error! I have nothing in my OS classpath variable. Something to do with Ant using Crimson.jar and jspc task requiring xerces that ships with Tomcat? Am I mi

Re: Linkage error with new jspc task

Loader constraint violations are usually caused by a situation in which two classloaders, if asked where they would get a class from, disagree about the location. This is typically brought to the front and causes an actual exception below when two classes loaded by distinct classloaders exchan

RE: init

> Would people be interested in such a web page? I'll be glad to > head off the > effort. Perhaps it could just start as a conversation here on the mailing > list, and I could collect the results in the web page. There was a similar effort in sourceforge, and I offered to help also but somehow n

Best Practices (was Re: Init)

At 14:53 9/01/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Would people be interested in such a web page? I'll be glad to head off the >effort. Perhaps it could just start as a conversation here on the mailing >list, and I could collect the results in the web page. I'd be interested in contributing a thought or thre

RE: init

Good idea. Let me know if I can help in any way. -Brian -Original Message- From: Herman, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:54 PM To: 'Ant Users List' Subject: RE: init This isn't an answer to your question, but I was thinking about starting a "Best Pra

Re: init

Check the manual and ant site. There already is one there, which describes different approaches. - Original Message - From: "Herman, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:53 PM Subject: RE: init > This isn't an answer

RE: init

This isn't an answer to your question, but I was thinking about starting a "Best Practices" page, perhaps for the developers to put up on the Ant web site. I've had the same problems as you, trying to learn the Right way. Would people be interested in such a web page? I'll be glad to head off the

Re: Linkage error with new jspc task

Is it enough to force it to fork each time? Added java.setFork(true); to JasperC.java and that fixed it. Will happily post that change... Cheers, Dave "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/09/2002 04:45:18 PM Please respond to "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linkage error with new jspc task

- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:37 Subject: Linkage error with new jspc task > > > Hi everyone, > > I am using ant 1.5 alpha, to get access to the new jspc task. > > However, I am running into the following erro

init

Is there something wrong with this: ... set some properties ... ... some tasks ... as opposed to doing the init tasks outside of any target, which is what most examples seem to do? I moved all that stuff to an init target because now an "available" task needs to be part of it. But

Re: Ant 1.5 Alpha - jvc and the javac task

- Original Message - From: "Anthony Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:07 PM Subject: Ant 1.5 Alpha - jvc and the javac task > ok, so I installed ant 1.5 alpha, and wrote a javac task to use jvc. > However, now I

RE: Inter-project dependencies?

One over arching masterbuild.xml file is what we're setting up to use. It allows interesting possible use of the task, which speeds up the build considerably. (Especially when part of the build to javadoc creatation!!!) John Volkar -Original Message- From: David Stagner [mailto:[EMA

Re: Inter-project dependencies?

Herman, Dave wrote: > Thanks again, T Master... > > How would you or anyone suggest the projects locate each other? My situation > is a little different from Adarsh's, because we don't have one over-arching > project with many sub-projects, but rather several projects on the same > level that h

RE: Inter-project dependencies?

I don't know if this is any help to you, but starting with one of the ANT tasks, I built an "optionalant" task, e.g. It allows me to run ant tasks(target) in other ant files that exist in a directory tree. I do

Re: Inter-project dependencies?

- Original Message - From: "Herman, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 12:09 PM Subject: RE: Inter-project dependencies? > Thanks again, T Master... > > How would you or anyone suggest the projects locate each other? My

Ant 1.5 Alpha - jvc and the javac task

ok, so I installed ant 1.5 alpha, and wrote a javac task to use jvc. However, now I can't fork if I use the jvc compiler. The compiler has to be set as "modern" in order to fork. Am I understanding this correctly? Is there any way I can fork with javac task if I use the jvc compiler? Using ano

RE: Inter-project dependencies?

Thanks again, T Master... How would you or anyone suggest the projects locate each other? My situation is a little different from Adarsh's, because we don't have one over-arching project with many sub-projects, but rather several projects on the same level that have somewhat complex inter-depend

RE: Inter-project dependencies?

Thanks a lot for the quick help! Regards, Adarsh -Original Message- From: John Volkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:49 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Inter-project dependencies? See the task, I believe it does just what you want. -Original Mes

RE: Inter-project dependencies?

See the task, I believe it does just what you want. -Original Message- From: Adarsh Dattani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:52 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Inter-project dependencies? We have a similar requirement where several projects are built in

Re: Inter-project dependencies?

>From CoreTasks/ant.html javadoc manual Examples - Original Message - From: "Adarsh Dattani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:52 AM Subject: RE: Inter-project dependencies? > We hav

RE: Inter-project dependencies?

To build subprojects from an index or main build.xml, use the 'Ant' task. Ron -Original Message- From: Adarsh Dattani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:52 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Inter-project dependencies? We have a similar requirement where se

RE: Inter-project dependencies?

> I know most of the above tasks are easy in Ant. The one thing I need > help on, is how to call other Ant build scripts from my index/main Ant > build script. Also, I'd like to pass parameters to these project > specific build scripts containing domain information. > Any help would be greatly a

RE: Inter-project dependencies?

We have a similar requirement where several projects are built independently. We'd like to integrate the build scripts in the following way - - An index or main build checks out all code into a temporary workspace - Invokes a base services build which builds a jar/war containing classes used by

Re: Inter-project dependencies?

Understood. If the jars were copied from one location to another for use, your projectA could then run IF the jar file existed. Your projectA.jar requires ProjectB.jar. This is what I would do: 1. Find projectB.jar from wherever, and copy to your own ${dist.dir}. 2. If copy failed, and thus th

Linkage error with new jspc task

Hi everyone, I am using ant 1.5 alpha, to get access to the new jspc task. However, I am running into the following error when I try and execute it: BUILD FAILED C:\dev\kiosk\Design\Admin\build.xml:87: java.lang.LinkageError: loader constrain ts violated when linking org/w3c/dom/Document clas

RE: Inter-project dependencies?

Thanks, The problem is that the projects are being developed separately, i.e., with separate directory structures and separate build scripts. There was a discussion last June on this mailing list about multiple build scripts, but I had trouble finding solid conclusions from it. The reasons I'd l

Re: Task design question

- Original Message - From: "David Stagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 08:31 Subject: Re: Task design question > T Master wrote: > > >>design. The task would wrap Sybase BCP in order to copy controlled test > >>data int

Re: outputproperty in the exec task (bug or i'm stupid)

- Original Message - From: "Igor Shkatov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 09:39 Subject: outputproperty in the exec task (bug or i'm stupid) > Hi all > The documentation for the Ant contains the information about outputprope

Re: Inter-project dependencies?

In my build file, project A would not be built unless project B built. This is handled using the depends attribute of target. Forces correction of problems with the core projects. All jars built are put/copied into the ${dist.dir} location. All jar names are given property values e.g. ${projec

Inter-project dependencies?

Hello, How do people usually handle inter-project dependencies? We have several interdependent projects, where building a release of project A should include building project B and getting the latest release of its jar file in the distribution area for project A, such as this: A/ release/

outputproperty in the exec task (bug or i'm stupid)

Hi all The documentation for the Ant contains the information about outputproperty attribute for the exec task. But this property is not working (and not exists in the source code) neither in the main distribution nor in the cvs version (taken via viewcvs) revision 1.22. Am I making something wro

Re: Task design question

- Original Message - From: "John Volkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:37 AM Subject: RE: Task design question > > We've actually considered doing all the above work thru a java JDBC based > program, but were afraid it w

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Re: Task design question

> What if multiple developers run the test at the same time on the same > database table? Shouldn't Sybase have table/row locking? If that doesn't work then you would probably have to put some sort of middleware in place and have your ant task talk to an EJB or something. >>The task would wrap

RE: Task design question

You know, this is actually a tricky situation. In my experience it's not possible to get enought tests written (enough code coverage) just with mock objects, you really need a significant set of finely crafted sample data that has many variations. Also, having developers share a database has nev

Re: Task design question

T Master wrote: >>design. The task would wrap Sybase BCP in order to copy controlled test >>data into a database table, while preserving the data that was in the >>table to be restored later. This way, multiple developers can share a >>single development database without so much headache during

Re: Task design question

At 04:57 PM 09/01/02, you wrote: >I'm thinking of writing a new task, and would like some input on the >design. The task would wrap Sybase BCP in order to copy controlled test >data into a database table, while preserving the data that was in the >table to be restored later. This way, multipl

Re: Task design question

> design. The task would wrap Sybase BCP in order to copy controlled test > data into a database table, while preserving the data that was in the > table to be restored later. This way, multiple developers can share a > single development database without so much headache during testing. What i

Task design question

I'm thinking of writing a new task, and would like some input on the design. The task would wrap Sybase BCP in order to copy controlled test data into a database table, while preserving the data that was in the table to be restored later. This way, multiple developers can share a single deve

Re: J#... why? [ off topic ]

Emir Alikadic wrote: > Joe, I really envy you: with clients like that, I could finally buy that BMW > Z8 and build that jacuzzi my girlfriend keeps nagging me about. Of course, > I'm not too sure when would my ethics finally kick in, forcing me to tell > these poor suckers what the reality is. >

Re: Including dependant class files in JAR task

On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 06:26, Stefán F. Stefánsson wrote: > Hello. > > Does anyone know if it's possible to construct a JAR in Ant and include > dependant class files from other jars that are in classpath in the > generated jar? This probably needs to be connected in some way to the > javac task

Including dependant class files in JAR task

Sorry for the double post if this letter did arrive in my first attempt. -Original Message- From:Stefán F. Stefánsson/Decode/IS Sent:9. janúar 2002 11:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Including dependant class files in JAR task Hello. Does anyone know if it's possi

Including dependant class files in JAR task

Hello. Does anyone know if it's possible to construct a JAR in Ant and include dependant class files from other jars that are in classpath in the generated jar? This probably needs to be connected in some way to the javac task since the jar task wouldn't know anything about which class it should

RE: Ant for J#?

I think this is what people would call a lively debate ;) -Original Message- From: Joseph S. Barrera III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 January 2002 11:08 To: 'Ant Users List' Subject: RE: Ant for J#? > From: Hunt, Bryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: RE: Ant for J#? > > Wh

RE: Ant for J#?

> From: Hunt, Bryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: RE: Ant for J#? > > What vile untamed beasts of hades have I unleashed ? How do you think *I* feel? I started this whole thread with what I thought was a simple request... sigh - Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

RE: Ant for J#?

What vile untamed beasts of hades have I unleashed ? b-- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 January 2002 10:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Ant for J#? > Vive Fortran 77! No no no... Vive COBOL Peter **

RE: Ant for J#?

> Vive Fortran 77! No no no... Vive COBOL Peter This email may contain information which is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please notify the sender immediately and delete i

RE: Ant for J#?

At 11:07 AM 09/01/02, you wrote: Vive Fortran 77! >Thats just perverse ;-) > >-Original Message- >From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 09 January 2002 10:14 >To: Ant Users List >Subject: Re: Ant for J#? > > >Hunt, Bryan wrote: > > > Given the choice I would much prefe

RE: Ant for J#?

Thats just perverse ;-) -Original Message- From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 January 2002 10:14 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Ant for J#? Hunt, Bryan wrote: > Given the choice I would much prefer to spend my days > coding > c++ or perl which are both far more

Re: Ant for J#?

Hunt, Bryan wrote: > Given the choice I would much prefer to spend my days > coding > c++ or perl which are both far more enjoyable languages. I get a kick out of assembler :-) Conor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail:

RE: JAXB Optional Task

> hi, don't know what xjc is and am new to jaxb and ant, but > why not just > have a precompile step that does: > > java -jar D:\java\jaxb-1.0-ea\lib\jaxb-xjc-1.0-ea.jar foo.dtd foo.xjs Hi Ray, That's what I'm going to do to add it to the build. Thanks, Peter

RE: Ant for J#?

cut= So, other than for Politics, why should J# be treated any differently? Why even spend the time debating this??? =cut My point exactly, debating all this j# stuff is detracting from the main purpose of this list. Don't get me wrong though I certainly dont think the world should revolve arou

RE: Ant for J#?

If you look at the way GNU provides its compilers on Solaris, we have the option to compile various source types (C++, Java, etc) although they all use different executables. ANT already has commands in for .NET in its Optional.jar. What is the issue with supporting ANT with J#. Just write a J

Re: Sheesh, Ant for J#? What about ant for .NET?

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, look at the nant project in sourceforge, and the nunit unit > testing. nant is great and it means that Ant is doing something very well if people start copying it for different environments. I could start yet another pointles

Re: Ant for J#?

On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Bevan Arps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I for one would be hugely in favour of some kind of "generic" > compiler task that can be configured (say through an external > property file) for almost any compiler at all. Combining with should work in (almost) any situation, but