Anyone have any clues about adding items to the general classpath?
What about even just adding classpath entries without a target (such as <javac/>) On 8/16/06, Marc Farrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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