Hello, delta builds are tricky.
the following factors can make a rebuild necessary : 1) changes in the build tools or environment (Operating System, JDK, ant, external tasks used by your build, ...) 2) change in the APIs of the jars your projects are using, 3) change in the sources of the project being considered, if you ignore points 1) and 2) and you keep on the file system the classes of your project, ant and Sun javac will rebuild automatically the classes which have been changed. This is enough if the changes are only changes in method implementations, but it does not guarantee that classes using the changed APIs will be rebuilt. Particularly, there is a loophole in the case of changed static constants; classes using the constants will not be recompiled. You can take into account point 2) and all the changes in your sources by using the <dependset/> task of ant. In this case though, you will not really be doing a delta build, but rebuilding a whole project when one of the sources of the project or one of the jars in the compilation classpath has changed. Hopes this helps, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello all, >Is there a way to perform delta builds in apache ant?Any real-life experiences >over there? >Any help/info would be welcome! > >best regards; >Hind Lwahhabi. > > >This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, >proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in >error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any >other use of the email by you is prohibited. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
