RE: [platform-ant-dev] Buildfile validation

[Darin Swanson <Darin_Swanson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ant is pretty helpful in this case. You can set the coreLoader on a project.
The problem is not in loading the tasks and types but in getting the classloader configured correctly.

All of the Ant tasks and all of the Ant classes must be loaded in the new classloader.
The current code does the parsing / configuration in the plugin classloader (which has loaded the Ant class hierarchy).
Now the parsing will need to occur in the new classloader to ensure all of the Ant classes are loaded by the new classloader.

As we all know, it just comes down to time

Darins

"Shackelford, John-Mason" <john-mason.shackelford@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-ant-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 02/19/04 10:29 AM Please respond to platform-ant-dev

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Darin,

> This opens up a whole world of dealing with a 
> classloader to properly validate the build file. 

Ah, right--when we execute an ant build we let ant do the classloading
itself but we in order to validate the buildfile without running it we need
to load the classes ourself.

Does ant expose any helpful API for loading classes defined in taskdef tags?
What difficulties you are encountering in classloading the tasks and types?


John-Mason Shackelford

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