I checked out the link. Anthill is just "spawning" a process to run the Ant Executable for the specified platform. So they are not programmatically using ant as I want to do. I want my solution to be a Java solution.
Anyone else have any other ideas? Thank you, Marc On 8/16/06, Marc Farrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the tip Tom. I will definitely check it out. On 8/16/06, Tom Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have you taken a look at Anthill (http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/default.jsp > )? There's an open source version which you can hack up, but it seems > like it does the same thing that you are trying to do here (kick off ant > from the web). If you do need to do this, you might want to check the > code in their open source version for how they handle their classloaders. > > On Wednesday, August 16, 2006, at 08:27AM, Marc Farrow < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have some servlet and I am trying to call an Ant script within the > class > >to compile a "project". All of the references in the build script are > not > >relative, therefore some of the classpath references are not > correct. I > >know I can change the properties, etc to fix this. However, due to the > > >nature of our environment we do not want to do this. With all that > being > >said, I do know that all the classpath entries that I need to compile > the > >needed classes are within my current servlet container (in my case > Tomcat). > >What can I do retrieve the correct classloader so that all the classes > are > >visible to the Ant script. Below is a snippet of code I am using. In > >comments, you will see the various ways I have tried to call the > >setCoreLoader method. > > > >Thank you, > > > >File buildfile = null; > >try { > > buildfile = new File(this.workingDirectory.getPath() + > "/build.xml"); > > Project project = new Project(); > > project.setBaseDir(this.workingDirectory); > > project.setName(this.project); > > project.setUserProperty("ant.file", buildfile.getPath()); > > project.init(); > > ProjectHelper helper = ProjectHelper.getProjectHelper(); > > project.addReference("ant.projectHelper", helper); > > helper.parse(project, buildfile); > > Properties sysProps = System.getProperties(); > > for (Iterator it = sysProps.entrySet().iterator();it.hasNext();) { > > Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry) it.next(); > > project.setProperty(entry.getKey().toString(), entry.getValue > >().toString()); > > } > > project.setProperty ("basedir", project.getBaseDir().getPath()); > > project.setProperty("ant.project.name", project.getName()); > > project.setProperty("ant.file ", buildfile.getPath()); > > project.setCoreLoader(Thread.currentThread > ().getContextClassLoader()); > >// project.setCoreLoader(null); > >// project.setCoreLoader(this.getClass().getClassLoader()); > >// project.setCoreLoader(Thread.currentThread > >().getContextClassLoader().getParent()); > > project.execute("dist"); > >} catch (Exception e) { > > throw new RuntimeException(e); > >} finally { > > project = null; > > buildfile = null; > >} > > > > > >-- > >Marc Farrow > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Marc Farrow
-- Marc Farrow
