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Nick,

On 3/29/12 10:07 PM, Nick Williams wrote:
> This works great for list, deploy, undeploy, stop, start, etc. All
> of those tasks work. But the jasper/jasper2 tasks are weird. They
> silently do nothing.

Hmm. I've been playing around with the JspC intermittently for about a
year, now, and I've noticed that the ant-i-fication of the JspC
compiler seems to be a bit of an afterthought. For instance, the class
that implements it isn't even called [something]Task.java.

It's possible that this task in particular just doesn't work properly
in a namespaced context. Can any ant experts comment on that?

> Finally, there’s the matter of specifying a JVM. Other java/javac
> tasks allow you to specify an executable (javac)/jvm (java) to use
> when executing the task. I can’t find anything in the documentation
> that reveals a way to do this with the Jasper tasks. Can the Jasper
> tasks ONLY run in the same JVM as Ant?

Obviously, you can compile the .java files that the precompiler
produces by separating the translation (.jsp -> .java) and compilation
(.java -> .class) into two separate steps (where the latter is
<javac>, which can be customized in the way you describe). So, do you
mean that you want to choose the JVM that is used when actually
performing the translation step?

It looks like JspC itself has a getFork() method that unconditionally
returns false. I'm not sure /why/, but this task wasn't expected to be
able to run in a forked context.

Without knowing the reasons for the above, I would say that in general
running in a forked context shouldn't be forbidden - rather it should
be expected of a nice player in the ant ecosystem. It seems like
generating a command-line from all the options taken from the ant
attributes and stuff shouldn't be in impossible feat.

Can you file an enhancement in bugzilla for both of these issues?

- -chris
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