Forwarded since you guys probably care more about this that us end users...
------ Forwarded Message From: Hani Suleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:49:36 +0100 To: xdoclet-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Xdoclet-user] Xdoclet cvs issues On 27/4/02 3:42 pm, "Aslak Hellesoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -So what the code in xdoclet.jar is doing is to figure out where on the > filesystem it is located, and then look for modules in the same directory. > The reason why we have to construct a large classpath for ant in the bat/sh > scripts is that this self-location-detection code in getXdocletJar() seems > to return the location of ant.jar if we don't. I have no idea why it is this > way, and I discovered that by putting it on the ant classpath the problem > disappeared. We'd like to avoid this of course. > Ok, I looked into this further, and the bug is still present in the latest CVS version of ant. The correct approach is for ant's classloader to extend SecureClassLoader, and specify the correct defineClass method with the right CodeSource. <rant> I'm surprised and disgusted by the ugliness of ant's classloader. Using reflection to keep 1.1 compatibility is particularly stupid and ugly, and it also means that now it's that much harder to fix the codesource bug given the the brain damaged way the whole protectiondomain stuff is currently done in AntClassLoader. A more sensible approach would be to define two classloaders, a 1.1 and a 1.2 one, with a helper delegate class to hold common functionality. Ant is a great tool, it's hard to find someone to argue against that. But as usual with jakarta projects, the implementation is...interesting, to put it politely. I was a much happier person living in ignorance and thinking that ant is one of the few jakarta apps that is done right with decent code behind it! </rant> I hope someone with commit access to ant (or someone who has some kind of influence on ant committers) can take this issue up with them, and fix this so xdoclet doesn't end up suffering in result! Hani ------ End of Forwarded Message _______________________________________________ Xdoclet-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-devel
