> On Jan 8, 2008 5:54 AM, John Hendrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > public class Main {
> > public static void main(String[] args) {
> > System.out.print("Hello"); [...]
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Ant doesn't output "Hello", I have to exit the Java app for
> it to appear.
> > Any ideas on how I can solve this?
>
> In Ant, the default System.out stream is replaced by an Ant-controlled
> stream to be able to capture output from all code run within Ant, and
> prefix the task name for example. Conor as a good write up on this
> somewhere, but basically Ant's logging system buffers all output by
> line, and since you use print instead of println, there's no carriage
> return that would flush Ant's buffer. The flush on System.out in your
> code has no effect. You can test this by issuing a println instead.
>
> I don't think there's a way around this without some tricky coding,
> although it could also be that no one thought this was worth the dev
> effort and possible struggle to get it accepted to "un-line-buffer"
> the logging sub-system... --DD
Good catch, Dominique.
Jan
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