Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2015-06-14, aalok singhvi wrote: > Stephen can you give me an example on update jars where I use ant within > ant. invoking ant.bat is probably the easiest way for starting Ant from within a buildfile. Ant's main jar (ant-launcher.jar in 1.7.0 IIRC) doesn't contain a Main-Class entry in its

Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2015-06-14, Christopher BROWN wrote: > Since Java SE 7, URLClassLoader defines a "close()" method which may be > useful in the specific case mentioned: > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/URLClassLoader.html#close() This won't help if the file in question is on the system class

Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread aalok singhvi
Stephen Are you suggesting on doing something like this // value takes in new ant.jar may be a newer ant version and then all delete Thanks On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:09 PM, aalok singhvi wrote: > Stephen can you give me an example on update jars where I use ant within > ant. > O

Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread aalok singhvi
Chris..I am on java 6 and upgrading to 7 might be challenging. On Jun 14, 2015 3:28 PM, "Christopher BROWN" wrote: > Hello, > > Since Java SE 7, URLClassLoader defines a "close()" method which may be > useful in the specific case mentioned: > > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/UR

Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread aalok singhvi
Stephen can you give me an example on update jars where I use ant within ant. On Jun 14, 2015 3:16 PM, "Stefan Bodewig" wrote: > On 2015-06-14, aalok singhvi wrote: > > > I tried using "deleteonexit" and it is know allowing me to delete > something > > of the jars but not allowing me to delete 2

Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread Christopher BROWN
Hello, Since Java SE 7, URLClassLoader defines a "close()" method which may be useful in the specific case mentioned: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/URLClassLoader.html#close() As for the more general case of Windows locking files from Java, as I understand it, it's because the

Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2015-06-14, aalok singhvi wrote: > I tried using "deleteonexit" and it is know allowing me to delete something > of the jars but not allowing me to delete 2 directories. It says the once > Ant JVM is terminated it can be deleted. This is what I described. This happens if the JVM has opened th

Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread aalok singhvi
Hey Stephan, I tried using "deleteonexit" and it is know allowing me to delete something of the jars but not allowing me to delete 2 directories. It says the once Ant JVM is terminated it can be deleted. Can we terminate ant jvm and restart once this delete is completed. I know its a stupid quest

Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2015-06-14, aalok singhvi wrote: > at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.handle(Delete.java:720) > at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:769) > org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:765) > org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.execute(Delete.java:76

Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread aalok singhvi
Cant a force delete a filesomething like windows "del -F file name". On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 1:31 PM, aalok singhvi wrote: > > at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.handle(Delete.java:720) > at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:769) > org.apache.tools.ant.taskdef

Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread aalok singhvi
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.handle(Delete.java:720) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:769) org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:765) org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Delete.execute(Delete.java:769) org.apache.tools.ant.UnkownElement.execute

Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread Stefan Bodewig
[please don't drop the user list from replies] On 2015-06-14, aalok singhvi wrote: > When i use verbose to print errors its gives certain info as follows... > It errors out on ant taskdef delete handle > Delete.java line 720, 769 765 and 586. It owuld be better if you could paste the full s

Re: WELCOME to user@ant.apache.org

2015-06-14 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2015-06-13, aalok singhvi wrote: > I am working on a project where i am not able to delete certain files using > ant 1.7. I saw some bug with ant 1.7 where the suggestion was to use ant > 1.8 version. My project is built out in 1.7 and it will be a big change to > built it out in 1.8. We are p