I'm setting up a classpath for a forked <java>. I understand how Ant
wildcards work. I was previously using ant wildcards to define the
classpath, but the cmd line exceeds the windows limit when ${srclib} is
deep.
<fileset dir="${srclib}">
<include name="*/*.jar"/>
I want the classpath to include the literal string "wnc/*", which is a
valid java classpath element. Since I used "pathelement path",
shouldn't it take this as a literal? I think it does, except that it
appears to validating it, and throwing it out as non-existent. I would
expect this validation with "pathelement location", but not "pathelement
path".
Thanks, Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de [mailto:jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:02 AM
To: user@ant.apache.org
Subject: AW: Classpath Wildcards
>I'm trying to use Java's Classpath wildcards to limit the cmd length on
>forked java calls.
>
> <pathelement path="${srclib}/wnc/*"/>
That's not a Java wildcard, it's an Ant wildcard.
Because <pathelement> is an Ant construct and Java wildcard can only be
used from the command line.
>But, Ant is throwing it out.
> dropping L:\Windchill\srclib\wnc\* from path as it doesn't exist
> [java] Executing 'D:\programs\jdk1.6.0_10\jre\bin\java.exe' with
arguments:
>Is there any way to do this?
Ant doesnt pass all found classfiles to the program - it sets up a
classloader. Therefore
it can handle large numbers of files itself.
So use an Ant wildcard:
<pathelement path="${srclib}/wnc/**"/>
(add one star ;)
'*' every file in the directory
'**' every file somewhere under the directory
Jan
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