hello, i'm having a bit of a brain-fart coming up with a solution to this situation. we have about 130 JAR files that we are building for a particular project. most of these JARs are dependent on each other so they require a specific build order. i was hoping to create a list of the projects that compose each JAR and feed this list to ANT to build one at a time. i know the Ant-Contrib project has a <foreach> tag that allows for iteration, but i'm a bit stumped on how to build everything from a properties file. is this possible? or is there a better way to approach this?
we're using VSS as source control and have several projects that are composed of several (130+) products/JARs in VSS. so i'd like to make a list of Project.Product that i can iterate through and build/JAR/deploy in order. so in VSS we may have Project1 that contains ProductA, ProductB & ProductC and Project2 that contains ProductD & ProductE and Project3 that contains ProductF, ProductG & ProductH. the build order may end up being: ProductB, ProductG, ProductA, ProductC, ProductD, ProductF, ProductE... so my initial idea was to create a master list that contains these products in their proper build order: Project1.ProductB Project3.ProductG Project1.ProductA Project1.ProductC Project2.ProductD Project3.ProductF Project2.ProductE our ANT build file is currently set up to build products individually. so typically we'd pass in the ProjectName, ProductName, Branch, DeliverableType and DeploymentDest to build one product/JAR/etc. to build all applications (build world) we have to either type this in manually 130+ times or we use a .bat file that makes 130+ calls. the problem with the .bat file is that if product 15 fails a bunch of builds that follow will fail due to dependency. there is no good way to stop the build process on error. so i was hoping ANT would be able to come to the rescue. :) hopefully this is enough background to either come up with a solution or generate some discussion that will lead to a solution. thanks for any help you can offer. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
