On 2011-10-25, Steele, Richard wrote:

> I'm chasing a defect with one of my custom Ant tasks.  To summarize, the
> task uses ImportTask under the hood to import build scripts.  These scripts
> can come from jar files downloaded via Ivy.  The problem I'm running into is
> that, at least on Windows, I'm unable to clean the project because Ant has a
> file handle open to the jar file I'm importing from.

I ran into this a few years ago when I wrote the test cases for
importing from an URL.  One result is

<http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=890827>

I recall blaming the classloader for it [1] and that the workaround I
added only worked for Java 1.4 but not Java6 [2].  It never occured to
me it could be the SAX parser's fault.

> I think what might be happening, and this is just a guess, is that the SAX
> parser is opening the jar file but not closing it.

>From your further investigation this may very well be the root cause,
yes.

> Clearly this would not be an Ant problem, but I'm wonder if this is
> something anyone else has happened across?

See above.

> I can't believe there would be a file handle leak deep inside the SAX
> parser.  If there is a defect like this, short of reporting it, is
> there anything I can do with Ant to sidestep the issue?

You could try using a different XML parser (Saxon's AElfred, maybe).

Stefan

[1] 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/200912.mbox/%3c877hspycw9....@v35516.1blu.de%3E

[2] 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/201003.mbox/%3c87iq9fnif2....@v35516.1blu.de%3E

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