Olivier Prouvost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forking is expensive : it loads a new VM while ant has its own. Is > it possible to call several java task, without forking ? In general? Yes. In your case I suspect the java application in question calls System.exit somewhere and therefore terminates Ant - apart from fixing the application there is not much you can do ATM. Using a custom SecurityManager to catch these problems has been discussed, but not implemented. Stefan
