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From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:50 PM
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> > * In the code of the War.java task, the lib attribute is defined as
> > a ZipFileSet. In the documentation, the same lib attribute is
> > defined as a FileSet. Should we fix the code or the documentation
> > of the War task ?
>
> Which documentation?
I meant the ant manual page under docs/manual/CoreTasks/war.html
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Nested elements
lib
The nested lib element specifies a FileSet. All files included in this
fileset will end up in the WEB-INF/lib directory of the war file.
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> We don't tell people that <lib> is a zipfileset because they may get
> confused when they try to use the prefix attribute then. It must be a
> zipfileset, so that it can get mapped to prefix="/WEB-INF/lib".
>
What about changing the method signature of War#addLib from
addLib(ZipFileSet fs) to addLib(FileSet fs) ?
This would also require changing the access of ZipFileSet#ZipFileSet(FileSet
fs) from protected to public too.
> > c) or write in WHATSNEW something like : - only references to
> > zipfileset(s) are accepted by tasks using zipfileset(s) as
> > attributes or nested elements.
> Is this really new?
Yes this is new, it was possible to do <fileset ... id="xyz"/>
<war>
<lib refid="xyz"/>
</war>
before I did my changes.
Cheers
Antoine
