basename & variables not working in solaris

[viet nguyen]

I'm trying to dynamically generate a list of jars in a Java webstart JNLP
file in the following format


<jar href="jar1"/>
<jar href="jar2"/>
<jar href="jarx"/>


1. my list of jars

<path id="dep.jars"> 
   <fileset dir="out/dist/loadtest">
      <include name="test*_*.jar"/>
    </fileset>
</path>


2.  For each jar get its basename and build the string <jar href="..."/>

                <var name="href" unset="true"/>

   <for param="jar">
      <path refid="dep.jars"/>
      <sequential>
           <var name="jar.basename" unset="true"/>              
           <basename property="jar.basename" file="@{jar}"/>
           <var name="href" value="${href}&lt;jar
href=&quot;${jar.basename}&quot;&gt;"/>
      </sequential>
    </for>
                        
3.  Replace a placeholder in test.jnlp with the dynamic jar list
                <replace file="test.jnlp" token="@RT.LIB@" value="${href}"/>


The above steps work in Windows but <basename> does not work in Solaris. 
Once assigned a value in the first iteration "jar.basename" behaves like an
immutable property although it's a variable.  Its value can't be changed.   
I'm using ant 1.7.0, ant-contrib-1.0b2.jar, jdk1.5.08.  

Is there a better way to accomplish what I was trying to do?



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