Giovanni, > > Just tried, but it doesn't work completely. The > resulting manifest is compilant but some dependencies > in class-path are missing. >
It should work. The process Stefan outlines ultimately uses the merge() method you identified below, so if you were to use that directly you would expect similar results, I think. It may be worth digging into exactly how the class-path entries are being merged. > > > Thanks. The last question: I saw on > http://www.dpml.net/api/ant/1.6.4/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Manifest.html > that the Ant class Manifest has a merge method that > should be perfect for my problem (starting with an > empty manifest and sequentially merge the others). But > this class seems not to be exposed in XML Ant's tasks. > Where can I find a tutorial on how to create new XML > tasks exposing existing Ant classes? > You can look at two things. One is the code for the manifest task itself, ManifestTask which uses the Manifest class to do most of its work. For general info on Ant task writing, please refer to the links here: http://ant.apache.org/manual/developlist.html and particularly http://ant.apache.org/manual/develop.html#writingowntask Cheers Conor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
