I'd like to not only build (using Ant) when I'm using VIM, but hotdeploy the class changes to a running app. I use ant.vim and it works very nicely. Then, I wrote a hotswap client using JDI. Now, I can run that via the commandline, but I'd rather integrate it into Ant. I toyed with doing a separate task, but I thought I'd just end up redoing some code that was already in <javac>. So, for a proof of concept, I've added some attributes to the <javac> task and am in the process of finishing the connections to the hot swap code. Basicly, once the compile is done, if hotswap was enabled, it would connect to the VM and push those class files over.
First, does anyone have any better idea of how I could integrate the hotswap feature into Ant? Second, is there a good way to get a list of the actual fully qualified class names that were compiled? I have the list of files, but I'd have to try to parse out the class name, which I don't have a good solution for yet. I just really need the classes dir (destDir) and the names of all the classes to be replaced in the VM.
Better to make it a separate task, if possible.
One problem with getting a list of compiled classes is that the compiler (be it javac, jikes, etc), makes its own mind up. So not even javac knows.
A separate <hotswap> task could take a fileset of classes, and maybe some timestamp file; all files after the timestamp file are deployed & the timestamp file is touched.
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