Hi Venu, The docs are useful and generally clear, as Parag mentions. Recommended. I have an old version of the printed manual "Ant - the Definitive Guide", and I used it a lot when I was starting with Ant. I like books for some purposes. Your choice.
Anyway, to answer your question: The dependencies determine the order. What you tell it to do determines what gets done. If you run with the following command with your existing file: $ ant archive execute It will do both. If you run: $ ant It will do the default thing - which you have specified as "archive". You can create a new target called "all" which depends on "archive, javadocs, execute", to do all the tasks. You could make "all" the default to save typing on the command line. Not sure if you need/want to run clean as part of "all". Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: VR Venugopal Rao [mailto:v...@cmcltd.com] > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 11:56 PM > To: 'Ant Users List' > Subject: RE: Why is the java command not executing > > Hi Robert, > Thanks for the clarification. > Does it mean that ant execution does not go sequentially as per the targets > specified in the build file? > I mean I have given the following sequence: > --init > --compile depends on init > --javdocs depends on compile > --archive depends on compile > --execute depends on archive > --clean depends on execute > > > Regards, > Venu > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Echlin, Robert [mailto:robert.ech...@windriver.com] > Sent: 29 August 2011 19:25 > To: Ant Users List > Subject: RE: Why is the java command not executing > > Hi Venu, > default target is archive > archive depends on compile, so compile is run. > compile depends on init, so init is run. > > That's all that is happening, so of course the execute doesn't happen.. > > Make archive depends="compile, execute". > Then it will do > - init > - compile > - execute > - archive > > Rob > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: VR Venugopal Rao [mailto:v...@cmcltd.com] > > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 2:38 AM > > To: 'Ant Users List' > > Subject: Why is the java command not executing > > > > Output: > > > > The Build is sucessfuly creating the jar file but not executing the > > Java file. > > Any idea why the java is not executing the file. > > Regards, > > Venu. > > > > > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <!-- packagenames="org.*, de.*, test.*, writer.*" --> > > <project name="structured" default="archive" > <target name="init"> > > <mkdir dir="build/classes" /> > > <mkdir dir="build/classes/docs" /> > > <mkdir dir="dist" /> > > </target> > > > > <target name="compile" depends="init" > > > <javac srcdir="src" > > destdir="build/classes"/> > > </target> > > <target name="javadocs" depends="compile" description="make the java > > docs" > > > <javadoc author="true" > > destdir="build/classes/docs" > > packagenames="org.*" > > sourcepath="src" > > use="true" > > version="true" > > windowtitle="documentation" > > private="true"> > > <classpath refid="compile.classpath"/> > > </javadoc> > > </target> > > > > <target name="archive" depends="compile" > > > <jar destfile="dist/project.jar" > > basedir="build/classes" /> > > </target> > > > > <target name="execute" depends="compile"> > > <java > > classname="org.example.antbook.lesson1.Main" > > classpath="build/classes"> > > <arg value="a"/> > > <arg value="b"/> > > <arg file="."/> > > </java> > > > > <java > > classname="org.example.antbook.lesson1.HelloWorld" > > classpath="build/classes"> > > </java> > > </target> > > <target name="clean" depends="execute"> > > <delete dir="build" /> > > <delete dir="dist" /> > > </target> > > > > > > </project> > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > ____________________ > > > > DISCLAIMER > > > > The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to > > it may contain confidential or privileged information. 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