Perhaps the StripJavaComments FilterChain would be of use? http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html#stripjavacomment s
Ben Burgess TIAA-CREF -----Original Message----- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 3:46 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Removing Comments During Build That's a good point, you won't be able to use JSP comments in static files obviously... I've gotten spoiled in my work in that everything is on the app server in an EAR lately, so I haven't had such concerns in the past year or so. I don't have any other suggestions unfortunately for those cases... stripping them out probably becomes your best option at that point. I've never heard of anyone doing such a thing, but it doesn't seem too bizarre either, I'm sure someone has. I know I've used that replaceregexp task I mentioned to switch my app to work on Tomcat and Websphere because I develop on Tomcat but deploy to Websphere in production and there are some differences... that task lets me "flip some bits" in config files based on the presence of a given property. I would think the same thing would work for you... If I'm remembering my regex properly (and there is every chance I am not!), doing... <!--*.--> ...as the expression to match, and then replace it with "", should do the trick... Of course, that assumes all your comments are on a single line, so you may have to have more than one regex to catch multi-line as well (I'm not sure off the top of my head to indicate the possibility of spanning lines in regex). You could do another for // and /* */ comments... the former should be pretty easy, the later again deals with line spans. Let me know if that works for you... if you have any trouble let me know and I'll play a bit... practice writing regex expressions is never a bad thing :) Frank Tom Frantz wrote: > Thanks for your suggestion about using JSP comments for everything to > hide them from the browser. That will definitely help me with my app > server stuff. > > What about the files being served by the web server? We have some > static html pages and JavaScript libraries there with comments we would > also like to prevent from being sent to the browser. > > Have you ever heard of anyone using an Ant task for stripping out comments? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************** This message, including any attachments, contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies. You are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. TIAA-CREF ************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
