On 2018-06-16, Gintautas Grigelionis wrote: > if services would become a new mechanism for adding tasks, modules > would be of help by providing an API to discover them.
Which may be a bit more tricky than it looks as currently tasks don't provide metadata about themselves (tag name, namespace uri) as this is handled by the surounding concepts like the antlib task. I agree, if we want to add an additional mechanism it should probably use ServiceLoader and thus be supported by modules. > Since modules are a jar with a twist, it seems that they could be > abstracted as resources if one would like to expose what's happening > under the hood/bonnet. The term resource might be overloaded and mean different things to you and me. In Ant terms a module would be a ResourceCollection, probably. > The question was more about whether that exposure would be useful (so > that there could be ModuleSets, etc). Something like a ZipGroupFileset? Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
