Re: Need help on creating a task

2003-01-30 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 12:08 AM, Janet Abdul-Karim wrote: In response to the 2nd email you sent me when I use the .getProject().getName() where does that info come from. Does it come from the .xml file where i did give the project the name. Maybe if I understood that I could unders

Re: Need help on creating a task

2003-01-30 Thread Janet Abdul-Karim
In response to the 2nd email you sent me when I use the .getProject().getName() where does that info come from. Does it come from the .xml file where i did give the project the name. Maybe if I understood that I could understand how the class and the .xml file works. thanks in advance for al

RE: Need help on creating a task

2003-01-30 Thread Gruenewald, Terry E
Here's the ant XML and a task that implements a C++ compiler. It shows you how the different pieces in the XML file relate to the pieces that ant expects in the Java code that ant will run. The line: Sets up "env" to be able to reference environment variables. Just some descrip

Re: Need help on creating a task

2003-01-30 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 10:17 PM, Janet Abdul-Karim wrote: This is what i am trying to do I have to create an htm formatted report that includes the following header and title project name [...] I don't know where you want header and title to come from, but all the others you can

Re: Need help on creating a task

2003-01-30 Thread Janet Abdul-Karim
This is what i am trying to do I have to create an htm formatted report that includes the following header and title project name project description current date user name ant version ant build filename/path java vm version java vm name cpu info What is have is this /** Imporing necessary cl

Re: Need help on creating a task

2003-01-30 Thread Erik Hatcher
Your best reference for Ant tasks is Ant's own source code. Check Jakarta's CVS for details or download the Ant source distribution. If you shared your example details with us, I'm sure we could help get you on the right track with it. Chapter 19 of Java Development with Ant has this review ab

Re: Need help on creating a task

2003-01-30 Thread Ryan Grier
If you would like a fairly simple example (which even has nested elements), please check out http://ant.ryangrier.com. I have build 2 tasks. On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 21:17, Janet Abdul-Karim wrote: > > I am having problems with creating my own task using ant. I have looked at examples >but they ar

Need help on creating a task

2003-01-30 Thread Janet Abdul-Karim
I am having problems with creating my own task using ant. I have looked at examples but they are not detailed enough to give me a better idea of what I should do. I am suppose to create a java file to extend class which I understand, but the other requirments like getting the project name and

Problem with tag inside

2003-01-30 Thread Naresh Bhatia
Ant is crashing if I put a tag inside . Here's my target: When I run this target I get the following error: [junit] java.lang.NoSuchMethodError [junit] at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.PlainJUnitResultFormatter.s ta

properties, ant task and isset

2003-01-30 Thread David Clements
Hello, I am noticing interesting behavior and have a theory as to what is happing. Basically I am calling an task with some nested tags. These properties may or may not be set at the time of the call. If a property is not set, and I pass it to with Will ${foo} then equal the string "${fo

Patch solution?

2003-01-30 Thread Ciramella, Edward
how about putting in your init target (or whatever you're using) different ways to set up the classpath based on whether or not that patch variable is set. If true, look to the build.property files for the patch.classpath setting. You may have something like this: patch.classpath = path/to/patch

RE: copy,fileset,mapper

2003-01-30 Thread Dan Gardner
Ahhh I think I see what your saying, and this is possibly the *other* way to look at it that I was missing. So your saying compile the patch within the patch directory. Of course ensuring that the javac classpath can see my release(plus previous patches) in the build directory. That way, when fi

RE: copy,fileset,mapper

2003-01-30 Thread Ciramella, Edward
Wait, you just want the changed files off in another directory, correct? put a patch = true/false entry in your build.properties file (if you are using one) create a target called "patch" that only works if the patch value is true (but gets called buy compile) this target would also have a javac t

RE: Windows 98 patternset include not working

2003-01-30 Thread Rollo, Dan
That works perfectly. I added: casesensitive="false" to the fileset and it works on Win98 Thanks! -Original Message- From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:18 PM To: 'Ant Users List' Subject: RE: Windows 98 patternset include not working C

RE: copy,fileset,mapper

2003-01-30 Thread Dan Gardner
I agree totally, a bit of a hack. One way to explain my environment is to show the target I've *almost* got working, to do the same in a hackish manner :). The only bit on this not working yet is the last actual copy task. Thanks Dominique for your help on this. By hook or crook I'll beat this

RE: copy,fileset,mapper

2003-01-30 Thread Dominique Devienne
Maybe... but I feel it's doable in one fell swoop thanks to the power of selectors and mappers. You're solution, if I'm right about the above, would much more hack'ish (no offense meant ;-). If you could give more info about how the files are laid out on disk, what dir to compare against what other

Re: Multiple values in sql task with Ant

2003-01-30 Thread Scott Walters
The JDBCTask.java file in the ant source tree under /src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs has a sample sql task in it's comments section. The task logs the values returned from a sql select. I put the code in below. It would be trivial to create your own ant task based on this one and chang

RE: copy,fileset,mapper

2003-01-30 Thread Dan Gardner
I originally thought the mapper would do it, but now I've formed the opinion (hopefully wrongly) that the mapper will just change the file name during a copy of move routine. I need to identify a file list. Change that filelist. Use the changed filelist as the definition of my source files. I thi

RE: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread Gruenewald, Terry E
Thus far the only solution I've got to work is to create a wrapper script, and run ant nohup from that. When the script exits (which is immediately), the nohup's parent process is immediately assigned to 1. >From here I can close the session, and ant runs okay. This seems like a Rube Goldberg

RE: copy,fileset,mapper

2003-01-30 Thread Dominique Devienne
Sounds like a job for something along the lines of: but since I'm not sure I followed you, I might be off. --DD -Original Message- From: Dan Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:18 PM To: 'Ant Users List' Subject: copy,fileset,map

RE: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread suu_quan
Oh yeah, I forgot about stdin,stdout and stderr. stdout and stderr get redirected to 2 files (see man page) Not sure stdin is closed or not. Not stated in Posix or svid3. Either one of the above may be your problem. suu > -Original Message- > From: Alexey Solofnenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread Bin Chen
One thing needs to be careful is which nohup you are running. There are two nohups in Solaris OS. Also, on certain platform, i.e. HPUX and Linux, nohup does not work on certain shell, try using different shell to execute your nohup to see if it works. Good luck, Bin -Original Message- Fr

copy,fileset,mapper

2003-01-30 Thread Dan Gardner
I'm having trouble doing the following. 1 Identify a list of changed .java files in a source/patch-directory. This is a subset of the complete list for the release. 2 Use that list to copy the *relevant* resultant .class files in the build area into a patches/patch-directory. I was ho

Re: Problem running ant outside WebSphere 5 development enviroment

2003-01-30 Thread Jacob Kjome
did you add ANT_HOME/bin to your path? Jake At 05:48 PM 1/30/2003 +, you wrote: I can run ant inside websphere no problem, but our project dictates that sometimes we have to run ant outside the websphere environment. I followed the steps as laid down in the help Manuel until I got to this

RE: Problem running ant outside WebSphere 5 development enviroment

2003-01-30 Thread Rosendahl Sten - stro
Maybe you should have a look at this: http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/wsdd/library/techarticles/0203_searle/searle1.h tml Sten Rosendahl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IMI Industri-Matematik International - THE ORDER COMPANY > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem running ant outside WebSphere 5 development enviroment

2003-01-30 Thread Tony . Cavanagh
I can run ant inside websphere no problem, but our project dictates that sometimes we have to run ant outside the websphere environment. I followed the steps as laid down in the help Manuel until I got to this point. Set up your ANT.HOME environment variable: set ANT.HOME=x:\Ws_installdir\plugins

Re: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread Bill Burton
Gruenewald, Terry E wrote: When I run ant using nohup and in the background, it runs okay. However, if I then log out of my session, ant exits as well. Has anyone run into this before? Does anyone know how to fix this so that the usual behavior of nohup works. Try redirecting all standard fi

RE: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread Alexey Solofnenko
In general "nohupped" process will exit if it asks for any user input. I do not think ANT would ask for anything, but what is in the ANT's output? Does it output any error messages? You might need to redirect stdin, stdout and stderr into some files in order for ANT to work. Try running nohup witho

Re: copy problem

2003-01-30 Thread Steve Loughran
- Original Message - From: "Paul Hunnisett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 01:53 Subject: Re: copy problem > >Also, > >(a) there is a task with axis > >(b) it is somewhat dangerous to drive your WSDL from your Java; better to > >write the wsd

RE: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread Gruenewald, Terry E
Here's some sample code I have that involves sleep.ksh sleep.xml and ksleep.ksh sleep.ksh turns around and calls ant -f sleep.xml. This xml file has a single target which runs the ant sleep builtin task, and it sleeps for 20 seconds. When I run this like this: nohup sleep.ksh & and then log ou

RE: Windows 98 patternset include not working

2003-01-30 Thread Dominique Devienne
Could be a case problem... Set the ignorecase attribute (or something like that) on the where you are using the . --DD -Original Message- From: Rollo, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 11:16 AM To: 'Ant Users List' Subject: Windows 98 patternset include not

Windows 98 patternset include not working

2003-01-30 Thread Rollo, Dan
I'm trying to run some unit tests on Win98 and the following patternset appears to be broken (only in Win98, other Winz are ok): Oddly enough: "**/*.jar" works fine. The first pattern is used to find all ".jar" files in sub directories named "jars". I'm using Ant v1.5.1 Is this a known is

RE: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread suu_quan
This is an OS and Shell combination problem. That's where you should look at, not ant. When your terminal window (or no window) starts ant, it starts ant as 'another process in the same process group'. When your terminal window dies, some signal-I-forget gets propagated to all the proce

Re: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
I have had ant scripts running totally disconnected from a terminal, for instance started from a ssh session itself started by an at job running on another machine. Antoine - Original Message - From: "Gruenewald, Terry E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Th

RE: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread Gruenewald, Terry E
In my particular case, other Java processes start nohup just fine. It is just ant for some reason that is not working. I can't imagine what it could be, or why ant would care about the presence or absence of the terminal. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread SimonRichardson2
We've seen similar problems when the Java processes are started using secure shell - may be a red herring? > -Original Message- > From: Tiago Ferraz Machado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 30 January 2003 16:38 > To: Ant Users List > Subject: RES: nohup not working with ant > > > I h

RE: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread Gruenewald, Terry E
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RE: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread Alexey Solofnenko
I had this problem too and it was not related to ANT. It looks like some administrators disallow nohup when it is launched from telnet sessions. The workaround was to start another shell and launch nohup from it. It was so long time ago, so I do not remember all the details. - Alexey. { http://tre

RES: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread Tiago Ferraz Machado
I had the sam eproblem running a JBoss process in nohup at a SunOS : uname -sr SunOS 5.6 Does anyone have a clue about this ?? []'s Tiago. -Mensagem original- De: Gruenewald, Terry E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviada em: quinta-feira, 30 de janeiro de 2003 14:26 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Multiple values in sql task with Ant

2003-01-30 Thread Martin
Davide- Assuming you have bsf.jar and rhino.jars from Mozilla on your classpath and the requisite http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/ jars If you wish to gain access to variables populated by a Query Take a look at the ResultSet Javascript post from Cosmin

Re: nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
I have had the same problem as you. I presume you are working on a UNIX platform. I had written a wrapper ksh script, and instead of using nohup, I was trapping SIGHUP in the script. I do not have the code with me, but the solution works. Antoine Lévy-Lambert - Original Message - From: "Gru

nohup not working with ant

2003-01-30 Thread Gruenewald, Terry E
When I run ant using nohup and in the background, it runs okay. However, if I then log out of my session, ant exits as well. Has anyone run into this before? Does anyone know how to fix this so that the usual behavior of nohup works. -Terry ---

RE: Multiple values in sql task with Ant

2003-01-30 Thread David McTavish
I don't believe the sql task is meant for retrieving records so much as running inserts and updates. You can redirect the output to a file, which may be the only way you can retrieve these values. d. -Original Message- From: ALIA, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January

Multiple values in sql task with Ant

2003-01-30 Thread ALIA, David
Hi. I've searched through archives but I wasn't able to find correct answer to this question... I'm trying to get multiple fields values from a sql task into several variables. For example, SELECT field1, field2, field3 FROM table WHERE condition And then manipulate properties like ${field1},

Re: project management w/ ANT

2003-01-30 Thread Sebastien BLANC
HI ! lots of replies so let me take time to read and thanx a lot for the concern. such goal as the (vanished ?) Configure project mentioned by Kyle Adams 's was wat I was trying to push for: "Recursive build support (call ant on every package level, and only build files in that package or in tha

Javac task, build.compiler file

2003-01-30 Thread Pascal_Rapicault
Hello, For the javac task I would like to know if it is possible to set the attributes source failonerror debug into the build.compiler. Thank you PaScaL

RE: project management w/ ANT

2003-01-30 Thread Dominique Devienne
What you describe seems similar in some ways to what I've been doing around my task, but it seems to me you still think the Makefile way rather than the Ant way... Anyhow, here's what I've done, so you can decide for yourself if you want to take a similar approach. My goal was to build two dozens

Re: project management w/ ANT

2003-01-30 Thread Kyle Adams
There used to be something like this called "Configure" - it's still linked to from the ant web site (see http://ant.apache.org/external.html), but the link is broken. Anyone know where this tool might have moved to? Kyle >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/03 11:42PM >>> Hello ! Here is how I did work

RE: project management w/ ANT

2003-01-30 Thread David McTavish
All of our build.xml files are manually created due to all projects having subtle differences. ie: one project may create a war, while another may compile vc++ code. We have refactored our build scripts such that tasks that are repeated over-and-over again are stored in a central script and are imp

Re: project management w/ ANT

2003-01-30 Thread Martin
The reply to your specific question is that using an Unix Shell with find to accomplish the functionality you desire.. The more general question you pose is relevant to all Ant users My Question: Each developer is assigned a specific package do they generate a build.xml from their IDE or is the bui

Re: project management w/ ANT

2003-01-30 Thread Ken Gentle
The quickest solution might be to install Cygwin and use the unix script... I've been doing this with ANT and other java based tools for years, and the scripts usually require only a few minor path related tweaks before they work on both platforms. K At 23:42 2003-01-29, you wrote: He

Re: copy problem

2003-01-30 Thread Paul Hunnisett
From: "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: copy problem Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:01:42 -0800 - Original Message - From: "Paul Hunnisett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Deriving new properties based on existing properties

2003-01-30 Thread Sascha Freitag
Hi Dominique, Dominique, you're right. That is not a good example. But that is only a snipped out of a longer script which we use to build a component. It was the fastest and easiest way for me to show the general usage. Sascha P. S. Naresh I'm glad to here that all works. -Original Message-