Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote:
Steve Loughran wrote:
While I agree with everything in this doc, it shows the pent-up demand
for a decent command-line app launcher from Java, above and beyond the
classic "java -jar somejar args" technique.
If/when we refactor Ant's <exec>/<java> logic into a jakarta-commons
project (the maven people, amongst others), would like this, we could
have a special command line launcher that takes a manifest file and
automatically runs the program. Smartfrog can do this, but it is
focused on long-lived deployments, not command line stuff, and we
believe that all parameters should be encoded in deployment
descriptors, preferably under SCM. Here, for example is the descriptor
to pull down and deploy axis1.1's TCP monitor, using the maven2
library to allow dynamic download. Did I mention that dynamic download
of authenticated JAR files should be a feature of the command line
launcher ?
-steve
Hello Steve,
would you want to make ant dependent upon a jakarta-commons library ?
or would you want to copy the code of <java/> and <exec/> elsewhere ?
Until recently the common ant wisdom was that we wanted to depend only
upon the JDK and the XML parser.
no, it wouldnt be like that. We'd somehow export the bits of the runtime
to configure and run programs as a commons-lib, repackaging them to
isolate ourselves from version grief.
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