On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:39, Stephen Haberman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've started using ant and really like it. However, I ran in to a
> problem where I was building multiple java files and the class files
> weren't being updated. It seemed that if I removed or changed any
> methods to a class, the changes would be visible to the client, but any
> methods I added couldn't be found.
>
> A friend said he had ran in the problem the same type of thing and it
> happened because all of the java files were passed to the compiler at
> once and the compiler was losing track of things. So I compiled each
> file individually and it magically started working.
>
> I realize this is more of a compiler issue (I'm using IBM's JDK), but
> would it be something ant could address?
maybe ... but a better solution would be to download jikes. A much faster,
more compliant java compiler ;)
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Cheers,
Pete
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