Hi, I've found some experimental code from Sun at this site:
http://www.experimentalstuff.com/
On their site they have something called Java Make Tool that will keep track of dependencies in class files.
http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html
The make tool is packaged in one jar file (javamake1.2.jar), it's platform independent (of course) and its invoked by java -jar javamake1.2.jar <options>. I have tested it with both javac and jikes.
As I understand it Ant only has a very simple form of dependency checking (it compares the timestamp of the java and class files). Would it be a good idea to support this command line tool in some future release of Ant? It would be nice to have support for it in the compile target.
Per Thomas Jahr
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