No need of writing our own task??? As I said I am totally new, I started working with ant now. What I understood is <xslt/> of ant do the necessary processing and modifications.
But if the value of this particular <trans-time-out></trans-time-out> tag varies from EJB to EJB then ???? srini. -----Original Message----- From: Phil Weighill-Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 5:07 PM To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: Can you help me!!! Try using <unzip .../> to extract the XML file from the EAR then use <xslt .../> to process and modify the XML file accordingly. Rename the output file from the XSLT back to the original name (using <move .../>) then use <zip ../> to put the file back in the EAR. Phil On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 15:52 +0530, Srinivas wrote: > Dear Smith, > > I am new to ant Scripting. My requirement is like this. We are using Weblogic. > > I receive an .EAR file and before deployment my BUILD should do the following. > > a. My Script should locate the weblogic-ejb-jar.xml inside the > .EAR and <trans-time-out></trans-time-out> > Element should be modified per EJB basis. > > What do you suggest? > > Regards, > Srini. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Weighill-Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 8:42 PM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: RE: A possible solution for conditional execution of tasks? > > > There is the option to use the conditional task ("if") from ant-contrib... this allows the nesting of a "sequential" task which itself can contain any tasks you want. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sandip Chitale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sun 29/05/2005 16:06 > To: Ant Developers List > Cc: > Subject: Re: A possible solution for conditional execution of tasks? > > > > Phil Weighill-Smith wrote: > > >My opinion regarding the disadvantages of this approach: > > > >* Antcall has to create a whole new Project in memory in order to work and is therefore an inefficient task > > > > > Yes. If the project is large this could be a large overhead. It seems > the semantics of antcall is not like a sub target but more like a target > in a sub project (even though the project happens to be the same > project). Is there a more lightweight solution planned in this area? > > >* If something invoked via Antcall depends on a target that is > also depended on by something depending on the target invoking Antcall then this dependency target will be executed more than once because dependencies are not handled across Antcall invocations > > > > > Yes. > > >* The dependency tree is "interrupted" and graphing tools that can show ant build script structures will not (generally) work correctly and show the whole dependency tree > > > > > I did not think about the graphing tools, but that is a good point also. > > Given the fact that you did not list any advantages it seems this is not > a good idea. > > >It might be better to add "if" and "unless" to the standard ant Task to allow for conditional execution, or even add a nested "condition" to the standard ant Task to allow for conditional execution. To provide BC with the standard "execute" method, the condition/if/unless processing would need to happen outside this method. > > > > > This seems like this is the real answer. However I read somewhere that > it is an architectural decision to not support "if" and "unless" etc. at > the task level. Can anyone point me to a discussion/document on that? > > What about using scripting? Is that not recommended either? > > Google search revealed that many people are looking for solutions for > similar problems. > > Regards, > Sandip > > > > >Phil :n. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Sandip Chitale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sat 28/05/2005 18:56 > > To: dev@ant.apache.org > > Cc: > > Subject: A possible solution for conditional execution of tasks? > > > > > > > > To conditionally execute a step in Ant one has to resort to setting up a > > target structure like this: > > > > : > > <target name="predicate"> > > <condition property="condition-satisfied"> > > <available .../> > > : > > </condition> > > </target> > > > > <target name="conditional-step" if="condition-satisfied"> > > <!-- conditional tasks here --> > > : > > : > > </target> > > > > <target name="conditional" depends="predicate, conditional-step"/> > > > > <target name="main" depends="conditional"> > > : > > : > > </target> > > : > > > > This is because of several reasons: > > > > * The ant tasks do not have something like *if* attribute. > > * One cannot get away with only two targets instead of three because > > the dependencies are executed before the dependent. Using the > > above example it is not possible to do what target predicate does > > in the main target and avoid using the predicate target. > > * Ensure order of execution > > > > However, I tried a solution making use of antcall task and it worked. It > > works as follows: > > > > : > > <target name="conditional-step" if="condition-satisfied"> > > <!-- conditional tasks here --> > > : > > : > > </target> > > > > <target name="main" depends="conditional-step"> > > : > > <condition property="condition-satisfied"> > > <available .../> > > : > > </condition> > > <antcall target="condition-satisfied"/> > > : > > </target> > > > > The advantage of this approach is to quickly have some tasks execute > > conditionally by putting them in a target and calling that > target using > > antcall after setting some property. > > > > And it seemed to work. My question is - is there a problem using this > > approach? 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