> -----Original Message----- > From: Langanke, Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2006 9:23 PM > To: user@ant.apache.org > Subject: Cannot delete file from classpath. > > Hi, > > I have a project A which depends on a jar from another > project B. The problem is that I got the jar from project B > in the classpath of project A; at start my clean target tries > to delete the jar but fails because the file is in the > classpath. I don't know how to update the jar (how to delete it).
Frank: If your running on windows the normal behaviour is that if you create a classloader referencing a jar, the classloader maintains an open file reference preventing the file from deletion. The only way around this is to ensure that you don't hold a reference to the file unless your actually using it. You can achieve this by separating your build into two distinct projects where B is build before project A and project A references the jar file produced by B under an appropriate path statement. You then need to define project X which does the sequencing of B then A. Cheers, Steve. -------------------------- Stephen McConnell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpml.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
