Hi,
I have heard that it is now possible to specify ClassLoaders and Properties handlers. Is this true?
These are experimental at this stage. They have been added but not used much or extensively tested. I think more work remains in this areas.
In Maven we embed the use of Ant and I would like Ant to use the ClassWorlds (classworlds.werken.com) mechanism we have in place and remove the use the commons-sandbox Grant project.
We are not using Grant at the moment. I think you are probably referring to Maven, but just to be clear. As for ClassWorlds, how would you envisage this would be used in Ant? I'm not clear where it would fit.
Also, I'm a little concerned about violating the classloading hierarchy - it leads to Linkage errors in my experience. I have the same concern with the ClassLoader task.
If this is indeed true could someone point me at the the relevant code?
The ClassLoader task is here http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Classloader.java
The PropertyHelper clas is here but you'll need to follow the relationships to see how it is used
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/PropertyHelper.java
Also, someone pointed James at the lifecycle document for taskdefs but can't seem to find it, could someone point me at that also?
I don't know who James is in this case, but the document is here http://ant.apache.org/manual/develop.html#writingowntask
Conor
