On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Mighty Tornado <mighty.torn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can I run the <javac> command in such a way that if I deleted java file > which was previously compiled, it will remove its .class file from the > classes directory when it builds again?
That's a limit on how Java works. The Java compiler compares the timestamp on the resulting classfile with the source file. If the timestamp on the source is older than the classfile, it doesn't do a build. However, this is a one way check: Checking a *.java source against its *.class object. The Java compiler doesn't go through all the classfiles and see if there is a corresponding source file. In fact, it may be almost impossible for this to happen since there isn't necessarily always a one-to-one correspondence between a source file and object file. There is also a problem of knowing where the source is stored since it is quite common to place the compiled classfiles into their own directory. That's why God created the "ant clean" command. (You do have a "clean" target in your build.xml file. Right? -- David Weintraub qazw...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
