>So my questions to the ant community: > >* What is commons launcher doing that ANT alone isnt?
Personally I havent heard from commons-launcher before. As you said it seems that commons-launcher is a modified copy of ant-launcher. So the best place to ask this would be (IMHO) the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. >* Can ANT be used as a launch process for Java >processes/daemons without significant problems? The ant-launcher is implemented in the package oata.launch [1]. It was designed as a replacement to the very heavy start scripts (bat,sh...). So it focused on Ant's needs. The launcher [2] does not start any new process - it uses the current one. So I dont think that you can launch processes/deamons with the launcher. BUT: maybe a buildfile with <exec>/<java> and fork="true" would help. As this is beyond Ant's focus I would not say that there are no significant problems. But _maybe_ it works ;-) >* Is there any interest within the ANT community to support this >use-case natively within ANT? Mmmh - there was a discussion earlier. The only future I would see is a base or utility class without any Ant specific stuff in ant-launcher which could be reused in Ant's own launcher. I think that was the intention in commons-launcher. But Ant does not want to depend on a 3rd party library in that core area. Have in mind: 400+ projects are using Ant for their bootstrapping just in Gump ... And having a circular dependency between Ant and commons-launcher is also not a good thing ... Jan [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools /ant/launch/ [2] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools /ant/launch/Launcher.java --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
