Thanks Erik. Yep it does what I want. But I wished I didnt had to boot
separate JVMs every time I had to run a javaclass which is what ant is
supposed to eliminate :-(
Erik Hatcher wrote:
>
> Again, have a look at <apply>. It does what you are asking for running
> command-line programs and checking dependencies and such.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "prasen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ant Developers List"
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:24 PM
> Subject: Re: conditional dependency logic based "uptodate"
>
> > Actually I need it not only for rmic but other things too. For example
> > we have an abstract class generation tool, which takes an interface and
> > creates a default implementaion. I have an dptodate target:
> >
> > <target name="determine-rmic">
> > <uptodate property="rmic.notRequired">
> > <srcfiles dir="${src}">
> > <include name="com/mycompany/interface/*.java"/>
> > </srcfiles>
> > <mapper type="glob" from="*.java" to="${classdir}/*_Impl.java"/>
> > </uptodate>
> > </target>
> >
> > and I want something like this:
> > <target name="make-rmic" depends="determine-rmic"
> > unless="rmic.notRequired">
> > <java classname="com.mycompany.GenerateImplClass" fork="true"
> > failonerror="true">
> > <arg line="${outdateInterfaceFileName}"/>
> > </java>
> > </target>
> >
> >
> > I dont want to run this generation tool on all the files, but ONLY the
> > outdated files.It is so easy to do this in "make". Does this feature
> > already exist or if not is there any plan to intriduce this in future
> > releases ? I dont want to compile everything, when only one
> > interfacefile has changed.
> >
> > thanks,
> > prasen
> >
> >
> > Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I want to selectively invoke rmic only on outdated files. How do I
> > > > do that in ant ? For example:
> > >
> > > Which is what Ant's built-in rmic task does. Why do you use myrmic
> > > instead of the built-in task? Maybe it can be rewritten as yet
> > > another implementation of the rmic task (it is a facade backed by
> > > Sun's, Weblogic's and Kaffe's implementation ATM).
> > >
> > > Stefan
> > >
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