I understand that you have filtering on.
Are you saying that the SOAP jar just happens to
contain a string which is one you are replacing ?
Otherwise this is a bug in Ant - I am on the Ant list
and vaguely remember someone else posting a similar
problem where copy was corrupting a binary file.
Jules
--- Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We
know why ant is doing this. Most of the <copy>
> tasks are setup to
> filter="true".
>
> Ant's filtering ability is much like the cpp, which
> can take a #DEFINE and
> replace the configured value. The difference for us
> is that @some.property@
> will be replaced by ${some.property} or left as is
> if there is no such
> property defined.
>
> I have made use of this to generate configurations
> of the applications I
> built for all users, who may not really know how
> each part of the system is
> configured. All they know, or rather need to know
> (which is important,
> because they could know, but choose not too) is a
> few configuration
> properties which get dropped into local.properties.
> In many cases the
> example file covers the default values for this and
> can provide
> documentation on what it does.
>
> To do this and keep the build system simple, this
> feature of ant has been
> turned on by default. I recently started using it
> to generate the
> version.properties file which will always keep the
> version number of
> generated builds current, with out user interaction
> (or rather
> retention of the task of updating it by hand).
>
> The manual build system uses this to keep the
> thirdparty support files
> separate from jboss specifics.
>
> There are other areas which could benefit from this
> type of dynamic
> configuration of files, but alas there is a limited
> amount of time which I
> can (or am willing to) spend on a build system.
> Once it does its job well,
> makes most everyone happy, requires little
> maintenance and fulfills all
> designed needs, it is time to let it rest.
>
> Soon enough new ideas will birth which will demand
> change from it, give it
> time to grow or rather go work on the boot &
> configuration systems because
> they are vastly more interesting.
>
> =)
>
> --jason
>
>
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Julian Gosnell wrote:
>
> > Or we could investigate why Ant is doing this,
> >
> > Surely, if there are no Strings to replace, Ant
> should leave the file alone....
> >
> > Perhaps upgrading Ant would fix this ?
> >
> > Jules
> >
> > Jason Dillon wrote:
> >
> > > > > I don't get it... why are we filtering??
> Wasn't everything working with
> > > > old
> > > > > build system without filtering???
> > >
> > > That really depends by what is meant by
> "working". I would not consider the
> > > old build system as "working", and thus spent
> lots of time trying to fix it,
> > > which I think went well for the most part.
> > >
> > > I enabled filtering by default an all source
> copies (which I expected to be
> > > text not binary), to allow those files to pickup
> configuration from the
> > > build system. I think that it is beneficial,
> though currently it is only
> > > being used in two places (version.properties and
> the manual/src/xdocs
> > > stuff).
> > >
> > > If it is causing a fuss, then we can simply drop
> the default fitering and
> > > only filter those files which need to be. This
> will complicate the build
> > > system slightly, since you will have to have
> additional copy tasks with
> > > filtering enabled, which include the select
> files, then the regular copy
> > > tasks will have to exlude those files and such.
> > >
> > > I prefer the filters, but I don't really care
> either way.
> > >
> > > --jason
> > >
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