Maybe the Tutorial "Hello World with Ant" [1] would also help. If you need more information in that tutorial, let me know ;-)
Jan [1] http://ant.apache.org/manual/tutorial-HelloWorldWithAnt.html >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >Von: Martin Gainty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Gesendet: Freitag, 6. April 2007 19:13 >An: Ant Users List >Betreff: Re: Need clarifications about the Core Ant Task (javac) > >Hello Aviator-- > >99% of ant builds configure their srcdir using FileSet selector.. >http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTypes/fileset.html >FileSet identifies 1 base folder , optional subfolders and >optional file >extensions > >The one folder fits all scenario Ive seen in the real world >where everyone >dumps their source, classes, web.xml and tlds to the same folder >The build.xml targets can easily rectify this by identifying >the source >folder via Source Control (source control identifies that >source folder with >en var CVS_ROOT) >The location of destdir should be dependent on the where the >input folder >for the utility (typically jar) which will war the >classes/web.xml and tlds >together0 > >HTH >Martin-- >This email message and any files transmitted with it contain >confidential >information intended only for the person(s) to whom this email >message is >addressed. If you have received this email message in error, >please notify >the sender immediately by telephone or email and destroy the original >message without making a copy. Thank you. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Java aviator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 1:03 AM >Subject: Need clarifications about the Core Ant Task (javac) > > >> Hi Friends, >> >> I am brand new to Ant though i have been working in Java for >a while. Can >> anybody clarify me about these lines taken from Ant user manual. >> >> " The source and destination directory will be recursively >scanned for >> Java >> source files to compile " >> >> To understand the above mentioned statement, I have >developed a build file >> >> <project default="compile"> >> <target name="compile"> >> <javac srcdir="source" destdir="destination"/> >> </target> >> </project> >> >> I observed that only the java files present in the srcdir are getting >> compiled and not the one present in destdir. >> >> Thanks in Advance! >> dinesh. >> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]