On 2011-10-31, Rhino wrote:
> I have an Ant script that changes the value of some constants in a
> constants file that is used later by a Java program. The edits are
> pretty trivial in nature - three booleans get set to false instead of
> their normal value of true - and then the Java program which uses them
> is supposed to change its behavior according to the new values of the
> booleans. But even though I am sure the edits are being done and that
> the .java files are only compiled after the edits have been completed,
> the Java program continues to see the booleans as true, even when they
> are not.
By constants you mean "static final" variables?
javac inlines static final primitives so in
public class A {
public static final boolean FOO = true;
}
public class B {
public static boolean BAR = A.FOO;
}
B won't even reference the A class after compilation and BAR is set to
true. If you later change the value in A and re-compile A but not B the
value in B will not change. You just re-compile B as well.
This is a Java concept, not an Ant concept 8-)
Stefan
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