On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Steele, Richard <r...@steelezone.net>wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org>wrote: > > You could try using a different XML parser (Saxon's AElfred, maybe). >> > > I might do that just to prove my analysis, but I was hoping to avoid having > to require everyone to use an extension to Ant. > Sigh. Another yak shaving exercise. I tried AElfred but it fails during the Ivy xml parsing because it's not a validating parser. I also tried the latest version of Xerces because the release notes specifically mention a fix for leaking file descriptors. In fact, some code appears in the newer version of XMLEntityManager to close the reader. I had to build locally with debug enabled (why do they release it without debug?) but unfortunately the new version doesn't fix my problem. I think I've convinced myself that there will always be some kind of issue trying to delete jars that were (once) needed from a classpath, especially on Windows, so I'm going to take a different approach: copy the artifacts I need to a temp dir and classload them from there and never clean them up. Thanks for your help and sympathy. :-) Rich
