Ant with VisualAge for Java

1. Wondering if anybody using ant with VAJava in a real life project? Is it effective? Easy to use? 2. also looking for sample build.xml (apart from one given in docs) which does importing projects, building jar from vaj repository __ Do You

RE: How do you version jar files?

Hi, -Original Message- From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 12:19 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: How do you version jar files? On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:47, Conor MacNeill wrote: Scott, There are a number of ways to version jars

RE: How do you version jar files?

oh, I forgot to mention that you could put the information also within an xml file within the jar file. I'm planning to do that sooner or later, because it allows you to store more information easily. For example you store the version numbers of the jar-files the jar file depends on. This

Re: How do you version jar files?

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:36, Markus Kohler wrote: If Java would have a standard for this (I haven't found one) See jdk1.3 docs looking for term Extension or Optional Package. It is not bad but is a really immature system in some ways. If you want to make an incompatible change you have to

RE: log4j + JUnit + Ant 1.4

I have used these together... I think is is because ANT tried to catch output (System.out) from tasks. I would use a file appender if I were you... Alan. -Original Message- From: Christopher Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 November 2001 21:59 To: Ant-User (E-mail) Subject:

RE: How do you version jar files?

Hi, -Original Message- From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 9:33 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: How do you version jar files? On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:36, Markus Kohler wrote: If Java would have a standard for this (I haven't found

RE: Doing both debug and release builds with same targets

I have this same configuration and I have a target that sets the flag before getting on with it. target name=debug_dist depends=set_debug,dist/ Where set_debug is like setmode... And Dist depends on an init that sets debug to false. Then I use debug in my javac calls... Alan. -Original

RE: junitreport and Xalan2

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The rough equivalent of this in Xalan-J 2.x is the javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory, which is a JAXP-standard call. I know there have been discussions in Ant-land about making Ant style? task use

Ant rcp

Hi ! Is there some task for remote copying ? like rcp ? Thanks /Joel ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Courrier : http://courrier.yahoo.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

print cvs revision tag ...

Hallo, I have following property entry in my build.properties: build.revision = $Revision: 1.2.4.1 $ And this in build.xml: target name=usage description=-- usage echo message=${build.revision}/ ... /target My output looks: bash-2.03$ ./build.sh Buildfile: build.xml

RE: Problems creating WAR file

I find this code works on win2k applied to ${dist.dir} which is laid out like the unpacked webapp.. jar jarfile=${name}.war basedir=${dist.dir} include name=**/*/ /jar -Original Message- From: Michael Weir (Transform Research) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

translate javac output

Hi, please bear with me, cos I'm new to this list, and I can't find the answer to this question in the archive.. I use a freeware IDE, Jcreator, which suits me fine, I can set up ant to be run from within it for any project and any target (nice) and for it to capture ant's output. Great I hear

RE: How do you version jar files?

1. Name the jar with the version as part of the name. This is the way Ant's own jars are distributed. I use a slight twist to this and use the date in the jar name, of course that has pro's and con's like everything else particularly because it inscrutably fails to let you know if

Re: print cvs revision tag ...

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 21:04, Rafal Kedziorski wrote: Hallo, I have following property entry in my build.properties: build.revision = $Revision: 1.2.4.1 $ And this in build.xml: target name=usage description=-- usage echo message=${build.revision}/ ... /target My

RemoteTask, RemoteCopyTask

Hi ! Are the RemoteTask task, RemoteCopyTask... describe in this article http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant_p.html already blundled with Ant ?? Thanks /Joel ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et

Re: translate javac output

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 21:16, Danny Angus wrote: Hi, please bear with me, cos I'm new to this list, and I can't find the answer to this question in the archive.. I use a freeware IDE, Jcreator, which suits me fine, I can set up ant to be run from within it for any project and any target (nice)

Important question - ant and vaj

it is mentioned in docs import an appropriate XML parser to VAJ (we use Xerces 1.2.0 and are happy with it) what version of xml parser should we insall in VAJ . xerces 1.4.4? (latest) also another question import the Ant sources into VAJ. what does it mean. Where can i download ant source?

RE: How do you version jar files?

Hi, -Original Message- From: Danny Angus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:16 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: How do you version jar files? 1. Name the jar with the version as part of the name. This is the way Ant's own jars are

Re: Ant rcp

In addition I was wondering if it is possible to do something like 'scp' - secure copy sftp- secure ftp I want to use this to create an 'ant putlive' build target. Sincerely, Joel On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 11:03, Joel Cordonnier wrote: Hi ! Is there some task for remote copying ?

Unable to run vaj and ant - getting following exception

Getting fol error when i click on Ant Buil for a project in VAJ classnotfoundexceptoin :org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ide.VAJAntTool __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe,

RE: translate javac output

you could write a BuildListener that translated it. When many of the jakarta projects used to do this I used an awk script. That may be an option aswell. Thanks Pete. Can't see the wood for the trees me sometimes .. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

RE: How do you version jar files?

build.xml jar jarfile=${dest1}/lib/app.jar basedir=${dest} manifest attribute name=JarVersion value=1.1/ /manifest /jar manulay edit every build Manifest-Version: 1.0 JarVersion: 1.1 Created-By: Ant 1.4.1 __ Do You Yahoo!? Find

Manifests, copy task

Couple of questions... I'd like to create an ant task to bundle some code with the libs it depends upon in a jar with its main-class and class-path attributes set. Since ant knows everything there is to know about what I need it goes against the grain to write a separate manifest file. Conor

Re: Manifests, copy task

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, brian ewins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, is what Conor's saying right? If Conor says, it is possible, it is 8-). He has written the code. I have the 1.4 code in front of me and I can't see anything in the jar task or 'manifest' code that would allow this? I only

Re: path elements in copy task

If you are working on a Unix box, using a fileset with dir=/ would help - see my other post in the thread Manifests, copy task. Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unable to run vaj and ant - getting following exception

You probably need to add the Ant project_resources dir to your Workspace classpath. You can accomplish this by doing the following: Window - Options - Resources, click on browse and search for the Ant dir in VAJ_INSTALL_DIR/ide/project_resources. The dir is the name of the project into which

Re: log4j + JUnit + Ant 1.4

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Christopher Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NOTE: In order to see my output in the JUnit Formatters, I ended up having to add the following lines to JUnitTestRunner::run(). System.setOut( systemOut ); You are supposed to get the output in the formatters and things like

RE: How do you version jar files?

Not true. You can have the value attribute of attribute be a variable that you pass in on the command line. attribute name=JarVersion value=${jar.version} / -jason --- Bacardi Wasabi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: build.xml jar jarfile=${dest1}/lib/app.jar basedir=${dest} manifest

Re: RemoteTask, RemoteCopyTask

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Joel Cordonnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the RemoteTask task, RemoteCopyTask... describe in this article http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant_p.html already blundled with Ant ?? They've never been offered to the Ant community, thus they are not

building package by package while using depend.

I'm having difficulty doing these two things, building package by package, and using depend, at the same time. I'm able to do either separately without any difficulty. By building package by package, I mean that I want to build package com.odi.A first, then com.odi.B, then com.odi.C. Package B

java.io.IOException: Not enough space

Hi, I'm a new user of Ant and I need advice to be able to correct my problem. I use the Ant version 1.4.1. I have writen an Ant build file to build my product. The building works fine on a machine which have 512M memory. But I have the following error: java.io.IOException: Not enough space

RE: How do you version jar files?

Well, I guess I will add my two cents. I just implemented what I think might turn out to be a pretty good solution. We will have to see though. We have one class in our project whose sole purpose is to provide this information. Like the example below, a String variable is assigned to $Name$.

RE: How do you version jar files?

Hello, I don't know how open you are to outside tools, but check out Anthill. Anthill is an extension to Ant and is Open Source. It is a controlled build process tool that provides a solution to your question. Anthill performs a build of a project whenever it determines that the code base has

Re: java.io.IOException: Not enough space

See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-userm=100102270812060w=2 Diane = ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

class.forName()

Hi, in ant 1.4 i have the problem, that the Class.forName() is throwing an exception. I saw in the archive, that there was a similar request, but did not find any reply. Here the problem is residing in an own taskdef, where i want to instantiate a class by calling Class.forName( ), which

Re: class.forName()

sounds like a classloader issue... but I am not an expert there. Anyone else? -jason --- Michael Remme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, in ant 1.4 i have the problem, that the Class.forName() is throwing an exception. I saw in the archive, that there was a similar request, but did not find

Re: class.forName()

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:16, Michael Remme wrote: in ant 1.4 i have the problem, that the Class.forName() is throwing an exception. I saw in the archive, that there was a similar request, but did not find any reply. Here the problem is residing in an own taskdef, where i want to instantiate a

RE: class.forName()

The class you are looking up should be in the same classloader or a parent classloader of your task. So if your task is loaded from ant/lib then the other class must also be in ant/lib etc. Does ant use a different class loader for every task definition? Why? Cheers, Pete

including support files in ejbjar task

I feel like a jerk for doing for reposting this, but I got no response the last time I posted this query, and maybe there is someone new reading who can help Hi all, I'm having a problem including files in a generic ejbjar task. I need the jars for eventual deployment into WebSphere

Re: RemoteTask, RemoteCopyTask

On Fri, 16 November 2001, Peter Donald wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 21:19, Joel Cordonnier wrote: Hi ! Are the RemoteTask task, RemoteCopyTask... describe in this article http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant_p.html already blundled with Ant ??

RE: log4j + JUnit + Ant 1.4

It is set to withOutAndErr. This did not help. Only with the change below does the output end up in the Formatter. I instrumented the source and traced it back to the JUnitTestRunner. -Original Message- From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001

RE: log4j + JUnit + Ant 1.4

Yeah. It all works fine with a FileAppender. Only this is not rolled in nicely with the JUnit Formatter's output, and adds another artifact to the mix. I am thinking of using Ant to post process the generated HTML files to include a link, if any, to the log4j file. Currently, AFAIK, the

Re: Creating WARs and Weblogic

I ended up not using either the jar or the war tasks. Instead, I copied all the files I needed to my build area and zipped it up. Voila! I got a working war file. This leads me to believe that there's a subtle bug in the jar and war tasks Thanks everyone who helped me on this one.

Re: log4j + JUnit + Ant 1.4

Chris, There is no need to post-process the generated HTML I'd recommend simply tweaking the XSLT sheets that are used to generate the HTML. Its not really feasible currently to provide a link from the HTML to the XML data files because the HTML could be generated in a different directory

RE: log4j + JUnit + Ant 1.4

Good advise. Thanks. Couldn't the included output -- the stuff (if it is present) in between the system-out and system-err tags, be dropped into separate HTML files in the same dirs by junitreport itself. As, say, TestMyTest-stdout.html, and then linked on the suite summary pages. Cheers, --

Re: java.io.IOException: Not enough space

You're most likely running out of swap space; a good rule of thumb is to allocate 2x the amount of RAM you have. You should be able to add an additional swap file on the fly in most(?) UNIX variants rather than being forced to create another swap filesystem. If you do already have plenty of

JUnit problems

I've some problems using the JUnit task. I have some tests which load a resource from the classpath using getSystemResource(). This only works if I use fork=yes in my JUnit task, otherwise the resource is not found (due to classloader issues, I suppose). Using fork=yes two other problems arise:

Re: log4j + JUnit + Ant 1.4

Of course! I just forgot about those elements being there (d'oh!) - but everything in the XML data files is fair game for HTML reporting. I could see it being handy to actually hyperlink right to the XML data files as well if they are kept together as a unit. Erik - Original Message

RE: JUnit problems

If you run Ant with -quiet, then I don't think the output will appear... -Original Message- From: Stefano Mancarella [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: JUnit problems I've some problems using the JUnit task. I

RE: Building multiple targets using the ant task?

--- Bryan Pendleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. Those both work, but in my case, the actual set of targets is not pre-determined; I was hoping to be able to pass the set of targets in at runtime (for example, by loading them from a property file). I'm not sure how

RE: Ant with VisualAge for Java

I am using ANT with Visual Age for Java for 1: Extracting code out of visual Age. 2: Importing code in Visual Age. 3: Staring and stopping Visual Age. All these using Remote access to tool API. Check this link http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/NTD2CE?OpenDocumentp=1mast=2 The

Re: JUnit problems

Unfortunately it does. Any other idea? - Original Message - From: Christopher Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Ant Users List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 18:47 Subject: RE: JUnit problems If you run Ant with -quiet, then I don't think the output will appear...

Command line another way?

Hi, Is it possible to give the ant command line a different way? I'm using ANT in NetBeans and in Cruise Control etc... And would like to pass in -debug -quite etc... Thanks, Alan. Alan Pearlman-Spencer MobileAware Ltd. 3225 Lake Drive,

RE: including support files in ejbjar task

Todd, I'm having a problem including files in a generic ejbjar task. snip/ The problem is, the support tag is including all the .xmi files from all the descriptors in the generic-ejb.jar when all I want is the two files that accompany each ejb-jar.xml. I don't quite understand what you are

RE: java.io.IOException: Not enough space

I have encountered this problem when stating the classpath in each task, what happened was that I not only got several instances of each class but each target loaded a new instance of the class code on a large build it consumed a lot of memory. (This was with the sql task) I removed the

RE: How do you version jar files?

I thought it would be a good idea to add some stuff to the manifest file so that later it could help me debug, so I did: jar jarfile=${dist.home}/dcs.jar fileset dir=${compile.to} include name=**/dcs/**/*.class/ include

Re: java.io.IOException: Not enough space

Stephane Bailliez wrote: I'm afraid the error you are having is not due to a memory problem but to a disk space problem. As the message says, it's a I/O Exception not a Memory error. Hi Stephane, First of all, thank you very much for your reply. I'm sure this is a memory problem. Indeed

Re: java.io.IOException: Not enough space

Diane Holt wrote: See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-userm=100102270812060w=2 Hi Diane, First of all, thank you very much for you reply. I had already try to set the ANT_OPTS with different values for -Xmssize and -Xmxsize, without any success. Kind regards. Hélène. -- -=-

Re: How do you version jar files?

I have no idea if this is the reason you are experiencing errors, but try getting rid of the spaces in the names (e.g., instead of Date of Build, try DateOfBuild). Scott - Original Message - From: Ylan Segal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ant Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November

RE: How do you version jar files?

I agree. My (limited) experience with jar files have them being very syntax sensitive. Line length, I know, can be a problem. Mark -Original Message- From: Scott Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:22 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: How do you

RE: How do you version jar files?

Thanks a lot You apparently got it exactly right... spaces in names. I just did a test, and it is working nicely. I decided to put all my variables in a section which has also a name without spaces and it is finding classes without a problem. Ylan. I have no idea if this is the

Re: How do you version jar files?

over here we have a template file for a class (VersionMetaData) which contains tokens replaced with the replace action. tokens are things like build host, build time, build user, and build number, which are determined by a Perl script. each package or application requiring this version

Re: class.forName()

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Michael Remme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here the problem is residing in an own taskdef, where i want to instantiate a class by calling Class.forName( ), which is always throwing a ClassNotFoundException. Could you show us the taskdef please - is the class you need in

Re: java.io.IOException: Not enough space

Hi. I've seen that exception before (when trying to compile an HTML template using XMLC). I'm pretty sure that the not enough space message is referring to SPAP space, not memory. If you had run out of memory you would see java.lang.OutOfMemory exceptions. Check to see what your swap space

Re: java.io.IOException: Not enough space

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:29:04 -0500 Peter Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've seen that exception before (when trying to compile an HTML template using XMLC). I'm pretty sure that the not enough space message is referring to SPAP space, not memory. If you had run out of Sorry,

RE: java.io.IOException: Not enough space

-Original Message- From: Hélène JOANIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I'm a new user of Ant and I need advice to be able to correct my problem. I use the Ant version 1.4.1. I have writen an Ant build file to build my product. The building works fine on a machine which have 512M

Re: java.io.IOException: Not enough space

Why do you think this is a memory problem? As Stephane says you are getting an IO exception NOT an OutOfMemory error. Check your swap space while performing a build and see what happens to it. Regards, Pete. On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:52:44 +0100 Hélène JOANIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephane

RE: java.io.IOException: Not enough space

The following fact might be relevant to this issue: unfortunately, Sun's implementation of exec() on UNIX uses an expensive version of fork() that makes a complete current process replica in memory before proceeding with exec(). This will fail if the current process is very large in

Re: class.forName()

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:47, Mark Claassen wrote: The class you are looking up should be in the same classloader or a parent classloader of your task. So if your task is loaded from ant/lib then the other class must also be in ant/lib etc. Does ant use a different class loader for every

Re: How do you version jar files?

Attribute names can not have spaces in them. f they do the JVM will not load them. Remove the spaces and try again. On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 05:58, Ylan Segal wrote: I thought it would be a good idea to add some stuff to the manifest file so that later it could help me debug, so I did: jar

Newbie question

there is a Install.sh file which installs project in virtual directory In this file i have following property tag for specifying properties file property file=install.properties / question is how can these properties and values could be refered again ..for example if i want to use them again

Property manipulation through javascript

Hi fellow Ants, I'm having a Ant-problem for which I can see no explaination. Any input appreciated. In the snippet below the instance property is set to a,b,c. I want the ftp_transfer target to run three times with a different remotedir attribute value each time. The target fires three times

RE: cvs

Thank you, your idea really helped me! -brent -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

setting / amending CLASSPATH in script

Hi, I spotted a recent thread that I thought answered my question, re setting environment variables but I'm not sure I get it. If I want to amend an environment variable, i.e. the CLASSPATH, can I do this from within the ant script? I've tried setting the CLASSPATH in the same shell that I

Sharing path id across multiple build files. Is it possible?

Hi, I've searched the mail archives and ant documentation for a couple hours and haven't found a solution to my problem. I'm wondering if somebody has a quick fix that could fix this problem. Problem statement: I'm using Ant 1.4. My project has multiple build files, one of which could be

Standardized jar manifest entries? (Re: How do you version jar files?)

(was getting off-topic for ant-user) On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:36:24AM +0100, Markus Kohler wrote: Hi, -Original Message- From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 12:19 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: How do you version jar files?

RE: Standardized jar manifest entries? (Re: How do you version jar files?)

Yes Yes Yes, This is almost exactly what I wanted to implement anyway :-) Another application for example is that you can print out the versions of all jar-files within your classpath. I've already done that. Regards, Markus -Original Message- From: Jeff Turner [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Standardized jar manifest entries? (Re: How do you version jar files?)

I like this, a lot, if I had a +1 here I'd use it.. its simple its addresses a real need it would facilitate the production of tools to deal with the nightmare that is .jars and the classpath Ant could check jars against dependencies, and build the jars from scratch only if need be. A new tool

Re: Standardized jar manifest entries? (Re: How do you version jar files?)

Personally I would instead choose to just enhance the jdk1.3 Optional Pacakge spec with an extra attribute. (ie Jakarta-Rules: true or something better named) and then just add more fixed rules on interpretation of versions. The reason is that the Optional Pacakge spec is used in servlet, ejb