Jonathan Baccash wrote: > I have read that ant does not do dependency checking to see if targets > are up to date. But I have also read that compilation of java files > is faster with ant. How is this possible? Does ant use javac compile > flags to do dependency checking automatically? Or is there something > else going on? Thanks,
Faster than what? Ant may be faster than other methods for a few reasons. Ant's <javac> task determines which java source files are out of date with respect to their classfiles and sends all of those java files to the compiler in one operation. Ant does not send all files to the compiler and it does not compile files one at a time. Other than that, ant does nothing special when compiling. Ant does not use any flags to do dependency checking. I think these options are actually no longer part of javac and never really worked in the way you'd actually want in any case. Conor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
