Re: ant for and foreach tasks use them or not

2009-01-12 Thread patrick wyss
thanks everybody for the answers. Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > My major problems with ant-contrib today would be that it never had a > proper release (1.0b3 is more than two years old) and seems to be more > or less unmaintained. > there is a beta 5 from alst april... but still it'll be hard to

ant for and foreach tasks use them or not

2009-01-08 Thread patrick wyss
hi there, i have the reqirement to do a java call for each file in a filelist. first i tought i'd use the "Apply" task, but then again i do not realy want to start a new process and load a new JVM etc. for each file i handle. so next i tried with macrodef but this gets rather clumsy when a lot