That's what we used forehead for in Maven.

See http://forehead.werken.com/
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Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/04/2003 11:01:37 
AM:

> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 01:05 am, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> > How so Conor? I must have missed it on ant-dev. Could you please 
explain
> > how this will be solved in Ant 1.6 please? Or point me to the 
appropriate
> > thread somewhere? Thanks, --DD
> >
> 
> OK, the problem I will try to fix is that the classpath construction in 
Ant 
> currently can lead to enormous command lines. This occurs when ANT_HOME 
is 
> deeply nested in the directory tree and is exacerbated in Ant 1.6 with 
the 
> production of many more Ant related jars than Ant 1.5
> 
> The strategy I would use would be to run a small launcher which would 
create a 
> URLClassLoader to actually launch Ant proper. This avoids the long 
command 
> lines entirley and would allow for the elimination of lcp.bat and also 
> potentially do away with some complexity in the ant batch files.
> 
> This was discussed in the thread where we talked about no longer 
supporting 
> JDK 1.1 One of the main things such a move gives us is access to the 
> URLClassLoader to solve this problem.
> 
> I'm not sure how this will affect Gump just yet (it may not since Gump 
> launches Ant's main class directly) and therefore the changes to Gump 
are 
> probably a good thing anyway.
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> -- 
> Conor MacNeill
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> 
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