You can use ant-contrib[1] <trycatch> task
<trycatch>
<try>
<!--whatever you want to do here-->
</try>
<catch>
<!--handling error-->
</catch>
<finally>
<!--closing code-->
</finally>
</trycatch>
Read the instructions about how to <taskdef> the tasks in the jar
HTH
Luis
[1] http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/
-----Original Message-----
From: Anderson, Rob (Global Trade) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:06 PM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: RE: don't fail build on failed task
The ant-contrib project has a <trycatch> task. I have not used it, but you might check
it out to see if it meets your needs.
http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/
Look under "Other tasks" for the trycatch task documentation.
-Rob Anderson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean A. Hoover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:50 AM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: don't fail build on failed task
>
>
> I am using ant to build and deploy
> a webapp to tomcat. I have a deploy
> task and an undeploy task. The deploy
> task fails if the app is already deployed.
> The undeploy task fails if the app is
> not already deployed. I find myself
> constantly typing: ant undeploy deploy
> which works fine if the build goes ok.
> If the build does not go ok I have to
> type: ant deploy
> since it already removed the app.
> I would like to make the undeploy
> task report failure to output but not
> really fail. That way, I can have the
> deploy task depend on the undeploy
> task and simplify things. If this is in
> the documentation, I cannot find it.
>
> Here is my undeploy task:
>
> <target name="undeploy"
> description="Undeploy web application" depends="init">
> <undeploy url="${local.tomcat.url}"
> username="${local.tomcat.username}"
> password="${local.tomcat.password}"
> path="${local.tomcat.path}"/>
> </target>
>
> Any takers?
> Dean Hoover
>
>
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