This is the best course of action evidently, when it can be taken that is. Had SUN's own jaxb task not been 'dumb', I wouldn't have had to add 'smarts' around it, wrapping it as a black box, trying to deal with its effects. Definitely not ideal... --DD
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:19 PM To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: CORBA IDL uptodate checking > I wrote an Ant task for the IDL compiler from OpenORB project. > I would like to add an uptodate check for compiling only the necessary IDL > files. > I looked in the current sources and the main challenge stays in figuring out > the java files that will be generated out of an IDL file. > I wonder if anyone has done that before ? ahh, Axis's Wsdl2java has the same problem; you need to know too much about what is going on before you can do dependencies. In the axis case I'm debating integrating the dependency checking *into* the implementation code, rather than just a task wrapper;