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From: "Conor MacNeill" <conor@cortexebusiness.com.au>
To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Any way to log information other then through the command line?
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:24:05 +1000
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Jay,

You can write your own listener to capture information from a specific task
and then add that listener to ant. Read the section on "Build Events" in the
ant documentation. If you have any questions, give me a yell.

Conor


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Glanville [mailto:dickon@nortelnetworks.com]
> Sent: Monday, 14 August 2000 23:13
> To: Ant-User (text)
> Subject: Any way to log information other then through the command line?
>
>
> Is there any way to capture logging information, or task output, through a
> way other then the command line option?
>
> For example, I want to run the javac task.  I want to capture the
> output of
> this build target in a file -- JUST the javac task, not the ant
> output.  The
> reason for this is because I then want to do something within
> this target to
> that output.  The actions to be performed on this information
> could be many.
> For example, e-mail the compiler log to a loadbuilder (in the case of an
> automated loadbuild process).  Or, to move the log file to an HTML area,
> showing the status of various loadbuild projects.
>
> I personally see this to be a useful thing for all tasks, but most useful
> for things like the build (javac) and run (java) tasks.
>
> Is this available?  Is this a future intention?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Jay Dickon Glanville
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