Re: Reading properties

2006-01-09 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, shreedhar natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my property file has key/values such as > > path=something\usb > I understand that it interprets \u in usb as unicode char. Yes. > I tried to use a filter to change "\" to "\\" > > file="${build_dir}/myvalues.prop

Re: Top Level Project ANT

2006-01-09 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i write some lines about ANT for a homework ... and i read that ANT > (unlike to Maven) is a TOP LEVEL Project. Wherever you read that, the "unlike to Maven" part is wrong. Maven is a Top Level Project as well. > But i cant see (read) the differe

RE: Reading properties

2006-01-09 Thread bill/wilandra
Try changing the \ to / in the file. HTH Bill -Original Message- From: shreedhar natarajan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 4:46 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Reading properties hi all, One of my property file has key/values such as path=something\usb When

Reading properties

2006-01-09 Thread shreedhar natarajan
hi all, One of my property file has key/values such as path=something\usb When I read this property like ant throws an exception, C:\mydir\build.xml:35: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed \u encoding. I understand that it interprets \u in usb as unicode char. how to over co

Re: using the default Logger/Listener in Ant

2006-01-09 Thread Tim Meals
Ajay -- You need an equals sign between the XmlLogger.file property and its value. Try: ant -listener org.apache.tools.ant.XmlLogger -DXmlLogger.file=log.xml [YOUR_TARGET_HERE] Tim DHARNA, AJAY [AG/1000] wrote: I am using the following options in Ant -listener org.apache.tools.ant.XmlL

using the default Logger/Listener in Ant

2006-01-09 Thread DHARNA, AJAY [AG/1000]
I am using the following options in Ant -listener org.apache.tools.ant.XmlLogger -DXmlLogger.file log.xml However, I get the following error message; ant logfile C:Development\Project\Source\Build\log.xml does not exist. Do I need to create a log.xml file?? Has anyone seen this issue and know h

Re: Perform tasks conditionally

2006-01-09 Thread Dominique Devienne
On 1/6/06, Jeffrey E Care <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The jar task already figures this out for you. Indeed it does. If Jar runs anyway, it could be because you generate a manifest dynamically, with a date or version number that changes on every build, forcing jar to always run. Otherwise is a "

Re: Perform tasks conditionally

2006-01-09 Thread Clifton Craig
Steve, The jar task compares the timestamps of all the files you wish to jar to the preexisting complete jar (if it had been run before) and will not execute if none of them are later than the timestamp of the existing jar. Working backwards from there you have the javac task which compares the

Re: AW: Force PATH env variable - Enabling .DLL loading

2006-01-09 Thread Clifton Craig
Maybe try forking the java task and using an sub-element with it? Using the tag you can set environment variables for the forked process where the JRE runs. My other suggestion would be to distribute the DLL with the Java library which may or may not make more sense depending on your situatio

Re: Some spelling mistakes in the documentation

2006-01-09 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Hello, I checked the patches Petar has provided. Here is the list of the spelling errors he has found: 1) projects.xml - the line "display and browse the dependenies between the different targets" must be "display and browse the dependencies between the different targets". The word "dependenies"

Re: Ant and Questions

2006-01-09 Thread Jeffrey E Care
"Karthik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/09/2006 06:59:30 AM: > 1)Time consumed for the TARGET that was fired from "build.xml" in form of > o/p using echo. You can write a customer logger that tracks when a given context begins, and when it ends; this applies to targets, but also tasks, whole

AW: AW: AW: AW: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath

2006-01-09 Thread Jan.Materne
Maybe you can force Maven to accept a -lib option. Jan >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Gesendet: Montag, 9. Januar 2006 14:19 >An: Ant Users List >Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath > >Thanks Jan, it work

Re: AW: AW: AW: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath

2006-01-09 Thread hassan . h . sajjad
Thanks Jan, it works if I run Ant standalone, but same problem when I run in the Maven env. I think this is more of a Maven support issue rather than Ant's. Regs -Has <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/01/2006 12:04 Please respond to "Ant Users List" To: cc: Subject:

Re: Ant and Questions

2006-01-09 Thread James Fuller
Karthik wrote: >Hi Form > >Somebody help me in the questions below. > >1)Time consumed for the TARGET that was fired from "build.xml" in form of >o/p using echo. > >2)Howto make use of LOGGER in ANT are there any specific tags built in for >using the same > > timing look at ant-contrib.sourcefor

AW: AW: AW: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath

2006-01-09 Thread Jan.Materne
place them in ${user.home}/.ant/lib Jan >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Gesendet: Montag, 9. Januar 2006 12:59 >An: Ant Users List >Betreff: Re: AW: AW: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath > >Hi > >I'm using scriptdef task in my A

Ant and Questions

2006-01-09 Thread Karthik
Hi Form Somebody help me in the questions below. 1)Time consumed for the TARGET that was fired from "build.xml" in form of o/p using echo. 2)Howto make use of LOGGER in ANT are there any specific tags built in for using the same [ Ant Doc's revel very little information on logging process ]

Re: AW: AW: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath

2006-01-09 Thread hassan . h . sajjad
Hi I'm using scriptdef task in my Ant script. This needs bsf.jar to be in the Ant classpath. As I cannot add bsf.jar in the ANT_HOME/lib, I have downloaded it at somewhere other on my hard drive. Now I need to add this jar to Ant's classpath before executing the scriptdef task in my build.xml.

AW: AW: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath

2006-01-09 Thread Jan.Materne
Manual :: Developing with Ant :: Writing Tasks http://ant.apache.org/manual/tutorial-writing-tasks.html#use1 Jan >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Gesendet: Montag, 9. Januar 2006 12:50 >An: Ant Users List >Betreff: Re: AW: how to add a li

Re: AW: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath

2006-01-09 Thread hassan . h . sajjad
Hi Is there any documentation that I can refer to... Taskdef documentation on Ant Manual (http://ant.apache.org/manual/) is extremely scarce. Thanks Hassan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/01/2006 10:51 Please respond to "Ant Users List" To: cc: Subject:AW: h

AW: AW: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath

2006-01-09 Thread Jan.Materne
What dependency? Between the external lib and what? Dependencies between a (custom) task and external libs are specified via nested classpath elements. Jan >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Gesendet: Montag, 9. Januar 2006 12:10 >An: Ant Us

Re: AW: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath

2006-01-09 Thread hassan . h . sajjad
Hi Jan taskdef uses the classname attribute, whereas I have a JAR dependency? How do I fix that. cheers Hassan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/01/2006 10:51 Please respond to "Ant Users List" To: cc: Subject:AW: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath n

AW: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath

2006-01-09 Thread Jan.Materne
nested classpath of taskdef Jan >-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Gesendet: Montag, 9. Januar 2006 11:48 >An: user@ant.apache.org >Betreff: how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath > >Hi > >Is there a way of adding a library dependency t

how to add a lib dependency to Ant classpath

2006-01-09 Thread hassan . h . sajjad
Hi Is there a way of adding a library dependency to ant classpath dynamically from within the Ant script. My limitation is I cannot add to the ANT_HOME/lib, as I'm using Ant via Maven, and therefore cannot use this option. Your help is much appreciated. Regs Hassan

Top Level Project ANT

2006-01-09 Thread KrustyDerClown
Hello, i write some lines about ANT for a homework ... and i read that ANT (unlike to Maven) is a TOP LEVEL Project. But i cant see (read) the difference between a Top Level Project and a "normal" Project inside the Apache Software Foundation. Can anyone help me? Greets Krusty

Some spelling mistakes in the documentation

2006-01-09 Thread Petar Tahchiev
Hello everybody, I just found some spelling mistakes in the documentation and I would like to propose an archive of patches. I hope I contributed to the project even a little :-). -- Regards, Petar! diffs.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data --

AW: Force PATH env variable - Enabling .DLL loading

2006-01-09 Thread Jan.Materne
>I would like to use ant to launch a java application that >loads a black box .dll under Windows. >Whatever the reason, the .dll path need to be present in the >PATH environment variable. >Otherwise, the java app fails to find and load the library. e.g. using SWT ... >As I need to deploy the a

Force PATH env variable - Enabling .DLL loading

2006-01-09 Thread Frederic Chalons
Hi, I would like to use ant to launch a java application that loads a black box .dll under Windows. Whatever the reason, the .dll path need to be present in the PATH environment variable. Otherwise, the java app fails to find and load the library. As I need to deploy the app on numerous machi