Search on "antshell" in the ant-dev archives for a recent discussion about
doing this sort of thing.
Diane
--- Robert Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It strikes me that it would be useful to be able to reuse the same
> instance
> of Ant when in the continuous cycle of code/compile/test as there is an
> overhead of starting up the jvm and parsing the build files that could
> be
> avoided.
> What I am envisaging is at its simplest, a loop that runs Ant and then
> instead of exiting it writes to System.out "Press R to re-run or Q to
> quit". If R is pressed it re-runs Ant without reparsing the build files
> (or
> whatever is necessary to get the best turn around time). Is this
> possible
> already and I have missed it in the doco ? Has anyone else contemplated
> this variation on the usage of Ant or am I barking up the wrong tree?
>
> TIA
>
> Robert
>
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