> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Rydahl Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 7:42 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Ant Developers List'
> Subject: Re: ant tasks creation of classloaders
> 
> 
> 
> > If you want your "local" classloader a childloader of the task's 
> > loader
> > you
> > should - as of less classpath overhead - simply code
> > new URLClassloader(this.getClass().getClassloader(),localClasspath)
> > (and set it as ThreadContextClassloader) unless you want to 
> support  
> > things
> > like "isolate"...
> 
> Is "isolate" what you call setParentFirst(false) ?

Yep.

> 
> > Hope that helps a little bit
> 
> It did. So, the short answer to my initial question is: Yes, 
> its ok to use the tasks own classloader even though not many 
> other tasks dod it ;)
> 
> /max
> 
> > Cheers
> >
> > Rainer
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Max Rydahl Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 11:44 PM
> >> To: dev@ant.apache.org
> >> Subject: ant tasks creation of classloaders
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> Having some "fun" issues with classloading these days.
> >>
> >> I have a task (HibernateTool) that is used like this:
> >>
> >>      <taskdef name="hibernatetool" 
> >> classname="org.hibernate.tool.ant.HibernateToolTask">
> >>        <classpath path="[necessary hibernate libs]">
> >>      </taskdef>
> >>
> >>
> >>    <target name="exportddl" depends="compiletest" 
> description="Export 
> >> the DDL to caveatemptor.ddl and DB">
> >>          <hibernatetool destdir="${build.dir}">
> >>              <classpath path="etc;${build.dir}/classes"/>
> >>              <annotationconfiguration
> >> configurationfile="${classes.dir}/hibernate.cfg.xml"/>
> >>              <hbm2ddl export="false" console="false" drop="false"
> >> create="true" outputfilename="caveatemptor.ddl" delimiter=";"/>
> >>          </hibernatetool>
> >>    </target>
> >>
> >>
> >> Notice that the classpath of the taskdef and hibernatetool have no 
> >> overlaps.
> >>
> >> Until today I had the following code in the HibernateToolTask for 
> >> creating the classloader:
> >>
> >> AntClassLoader loader = getProject().createClassLoader(classPath);
> >> loader.setParent(getProject().getCoreLoader());
> >> loader.setThreadContextLoader();
> >>
> >> But when I run this stuff with the task above I get 
> >> ClassNotFoundErrors for annotations defined in hibernate.
> >>
> >> This occurs because with the above classloader setup I effectively 
> >> goes around the <taskdef> classpath - it
> >> will instead first look in the parent of the AntClassLoader I
> >> created and
> >> this will be the system classloader which
> >> of course know nothing about the hibernate specific classloaders.
> >>
> >> Know my current work around for this is to do:
> >>
> >> AntClassLoader loader = getProject().createClassLoader(classPath);
> >> loader.setParent(this.getClass().getClassLoader()); <-- 
> this is the 
> >> HibernateToolTask instance
> >> loader.setThreadContextLoader();
> >>
> >> This will setup the right classloading sequence.
> >>
> >> But i'm just curious of why this does not seem to be the 
> default way 
> >> of doing things in the existing ant tasks ?
> >>
> >> e.g. in LoadProperties is:
> >>             ClassLoader cL = (classpath != null)
> >>                  ? getProject().createClassLoader(classpath)
> >>                  : LoadProperties.class.getClassLoader();
> >>
> >> which for me says "ignore LoadProperties own classloader 
> if i have a 
> >> <classpath>"
> >>
> >> and most other places they *only* uses the core task 
> loader which for 
> >> me seems kinda strange (as it can give funny
> >> sideeffects if not all classes used by the <taskdef> isn't 
> loaded yet)
> >>
> >> So, am I missing some crucial insight or is it just 
> "random" how the 
> >> current ant tasks setup their classloaders :) ?
> >>
> >> Anyone which can think up any bad things with the 
> classloader setup I 
> >> did here ?
> >>
> >> /max
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 
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