javac/javadoc with a common fileset for source files

2007-08-30 Thread Rick Moynihan
Hi all, I'm just wondering if it's possible to have the javac & javadoc tasks share a common fileset. I have a series of builds with more than one source directory. I would ideally like a mechanism to specify the directories/files for both of these once and reuse that definition in both the

Re: AW: Using ant as a cross platform java process launcher

2007-04-24 Thread Rick Moynihan
Matt Benson wrote: --- Rick Moynihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my questions to the ant community: * What is commons launcher doing that ANT alone isnt? Personally I havent heard from commons-launcher before. As you said it seems that commons-launche

Re: AW: Using ant as a cross platform java process launcher

2007-04-24 Thread Rick Moynihan
Steve Loughran wrote: Rick Moynihan wrote: Obviously I understand that ANT is a critically important piece of infrastructure for a huge number of projects, and I understand that ANT's primary focus is and always will be as a build tool. My only point is that *MAYBE* if it is not too

Re: AW: Using ant as a cross platform java process launcher

2007-04-24 Thread Rick Moynihan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my questions to the ant community: * What is commons launcher doing that ANT alone isnt? Personally I havent heard from commons-launcher before. As you said it seems that commons-launcher is a modified copy of ant-launcher. So the best place to ask this would be (IM

Using ant as a cross platform java process launcher

2007-04-24 Thread Rick Moynihan
Hi, I have been using commons-launcher ( http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/launcher/ ) to provide a cross platform way of launching Java processes. Commons launcher is essentially a wrapper around ant that provides a convenient mechanism for specifying JVM options managing the classpath etc, in