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From: "Macey, Ian" <ian.macey@cazenove.com>
To: "'ant-user@jakarta.apache.org'" <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Make Dependencies
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:27:05 +0100 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:conor@cortexebusiness.com.au]
> If you want to create a dependency between A.class and 
> b.class which is not
> reflected in the source, the you are right, and <depend> will 
> not help you.
> I guess you can use uptodate as Diane suggested. 

I've managed to solve my problem using Diane's suggestion.
Here's my initial solution using uptodate:

<project name="Servlets" default="compile" basedir=".">

    <property name="build.dir"  value="classes" />

    <path id="project.class.path"> . . . </path>

    <target name="compile" depends="staticFinalTouch">
        <mkdir dir="${build.dir}"/>
        <javac srcdir="." destdir="${build.dir}" includes="*.java"
excludes="Common.java"> 
            <classpath refid="project.class.path"/>
        </javac>
        <copy
todir="/prg/jboss_jetty/Jetty-3.0.2/webapps/corma/WEB-INF/classes" >
           <fileset dir="${build.dir}" includes="*.class" />
        </copy>
    </target>

    <target name="staticFinalTouch" depends="staticFinalCheck"
if="staticFinalTouch.required">
        <touch file="OrderSummary.java"/>
        <touch file="OrderDetail.java"/>
    </target>

    <target name="staticFinalCheck">
        <javac srcdir="." destdir="${build.dir}" includes="Common.java"> 
            <classpath refid="project.class.path"/>
        </javac>
        <uptodate property="staticFinalTouch.required"
targetfile="classes/Common.class" >
            <srcfiles dir="." includes="*.java" excludes="Common.java" />
        </uptodate>
    </target>

</project>

> think it would be rare where you want to set up a compile 
> dependency where
> there is no source relationship between the classes.

As you can probably tell from the build.xml, my problem is with a file
being used to hold a series of static finals which are used in a number
of servlets.

Unfortunately such static finals slip past past depends' relying "upon the
class references encoded into the class files by the compiler" for well
known java-gotcha reasons...

Thanks for the help - if anyone knows of a better way to do this in Ant
let me know, otherwise I think this a workable solution.


Ian


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