if u are allowed to fork="true" a task, do so. its task implementation
dependent though.
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From: "CAMPANA,SAL (HP-Philadelphia,ex1)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ANT List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:12 AM
Subject: how do I to tell ANT not to wait for a task to finish?
> Is there a way to make a task run and continue through the ant script
> without waiting for the task to end?
>
> For instance, I want to start an external application, then start another
to
> interact with that application.
>
> It seems that ANT only runs sequentially and waits for a task to finish
> before moving to the next task. This makes total sense for building my
> classes, but I'd love to be able to spawn separate threads of execution
> without waiting.
>
> One way I did it was to call a batch file which started my app. The batch
> file will die after it executes the command and the ANT file moves on....
>
> Any ideas? Am I missing something?
>
> Thank you!
>
