I've been having issues for quite some time with some custom xdoclet tasks I've written. The custom tasks I have are packaged in a separate jar from xdoclet and contain an xdoclet.xml file. It works fine when the initial generation happens. However, if the subtask is run again, I get failures in the template.
The impression I get is that something is determining that the generation does not need to be done again and is eliminating the classes from lookup, but the template is being evaluated anyway. This is where things fail. In the the template, I'm calling a custom tags handler but it is failing with a class not found exception. Actually, I think this is happening in the tagdef. I can get around this by setting force="true" in the parent task, but I'd rather not generate every time the build runs. I've since implemented some updtodate checks with ant so I don't call the task if I don't have to, but that's a lot of ugly handling that I have to duplicate everywhere I'm using custom tasks. In my build script, I have a task that first compiles the xdoclet code and packages it up in a jar. In a subsequent task, I'm incorporating this jar in a classpath definition for a taskdef for my custom task. This works fine when code generation actually needs to happen (like the first time). The only thing I can come up with is that there are issues with class loading. I haven't found any decent information in the archives about this issue and haven't received any feedback to my earlier inquiries. I've been trying to sift through the source but am having a hard time figuring out what the deal is. I'm wondering if appending classpath information to the ModulesFinder will help. I can't imagine every custom task implementation works like this. Can anyone shed any light on why this is happening? Anybody out there have any custom tasks they've created that don't have this issue? Thanks, Scott ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ xdoclet-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-user
