Thanks Jason,
this is something I want to use inside emacs/JDE so it will be wrapped up
there,
Kevin Jones
DevelopMentor
www.develop.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 15 January 2001 17:31
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Compiling a single file
>
>
> Kevin,
>
> You could set things up to use a command-line defined property:
>
> ant -DjavaFileToCompile=foo
>
> And your script could then refer to ${javaFileToCompile}
>
> You could also wrapt the defining of this property within your
> Ant launching script, so you don't have to always enter
> '-DjavaFileToCompile'....
>
> Jason
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Ant-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 12:14 PM
> Subject: Compiling a single file
>
>
> > Is there a way to get Ant to compile a single .java file,
> rather than have
> > to re-compile all the changed files in the project?
> >
> > So if I have foo.java and bar.java. I edit both but I only want
> to compile
> > foo.java. I can do this using ant by having a foo.java target
> and a bar.java
> > and then doing ant [bar.java|foo.java]. But suppose the project
> has a 100
> > files. I don't want to write a build.xml with a hundred
> targets. Is there a
> > way of generalising ant to handle this?
> >
> > Kevin Jones
> > DevelopMentor
> > www.develop.com
> >
