Steve Loughran wrote: > While I agree with everything in this doc, it shows the pent-up demand > for a decent command-line app launcher from Java, above and beyond the > classic "java -jar somejar args" technique. > > If/when we refactor Ant's <exec>/<java> logic into a jakarta-commons > project (the maven people, amongst others), would like this, we could > have a special command line launcher that takes a manifest file and > automatically runs the program. Smartfrog can do this, but it is > focused on long-lived deployments, not command line stuff, and we > believe that all parameters should be encoded in deployment > descriptors, preferably under SCM. Here, for example is the descriptor > to pull down and deploy axis1.1's TCP monitor, using the maven2 > library to allow dynamic download. Did I mention that dynamic download > of authenticated JAR files should be a feature of the command line > launcher ? > > -steve > Hello Steve,
would you want to make ant dependent upon a jakarta-commons library ? or would you want to copy the code of <java/> and <exec/> elsewhere ? Until recently the common ant wisdom was that we wanted to depend only upon the JDK and the XML parser. Cheers, Antoine --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
