Hi keith-
pure speculation but what if your start_weblogic.xml uses start /B (instead of
cmd.exe /C)..
Anyone?Martin--______________________________________________Disclaimer and
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transmission.> > Hi,> > Versions: Ant 1.6.2 and 1.6.5, Java 1.5.0_05.> > I have
an Ant script that needs to call an Ant target with a different> environment
(specifically with a different -lib setting) so I use <java>> to run this in a
separate process as follows (the -lib is removed from> the arg sections here
because the problem occurs even without it):> > <java failonerror="true"
fork="true"> classname="org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher">> <env key="PATH"
path="${java.library.path}"/>> <jvmarg value="-Dant.home=${ant.home}"/>> <arg
value="-f"/>> <arg value="start_weblogic.xml"/>> <!-- -lib setting omitted -->>
<classpath>> <pathelement path="${ant.home}/lib/ant-launcher.jar"/>>
</classpath>> </java>> <echo>java has terminated</echo>> > > Now, the
start_weblogic.xml build script runs another process with an> <exec> task with
spawn="true", so that it should outlive the Ant script.> Here's the target:> >
<target name="wls-start-server"> > <echo message="Start Weblogic Application
Server"/>> <exec spawn="true" dir="${wls-domain-dir}" executable="cmd.exe">
os="Windows 2000,Windows 2003,Windows XP">> <arg line="/c startWebLogic.cmd"/>>
</exec>> > <waitfor maxwait="5" maxwaitunit="minute" checkevery="20000">
checkeveryunit="millisecond">> <http url="http://localhost:7001/console"/>>
</waitfor>> <echo>WLS has started</echo>> </target>> > > Now, if I run
start_weblogic.xml directly from the command line, with> the appropriate -lib
settings etc., all is well, the script runs and> starts the server, leaving it
running after the script has completed.> > However, if I call the
start_weblogic.xml script indirectly, from my> other script using the <java>
task, it starts the server, I see the> <echo> message "WLS has started", and
the BUILD SUCCESSFUL message.> However, the <java> task does not appear to
terminate until the other> process (started with spawn="true" from a forked
JVM) has been> terminated. Only then do I see the <echo> message "java has
terminated"> from the first fragment. It appears that the nested Ant script
has> completed, but the outer <java> task doesn't shut down. Interestingly,>
the extra java.exe for the nested Ant script disappears from the Windows> Task
Manager at the same time as the BUILD SUCCESSFUL message, so it> seems that the
outer Ant script running the <java> task hasn't detected> this somehow.> >
Incidentally, the behaviour is identical if I use the <forget> task from>
Ant-Contrib instead of the spawn="true" attribute.> > Can anyone suggest what
is going wrong here?> > Thanks,> Keith> > > Axiom Systems Limited is a limited
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