On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Steele, Richard <rich@steelezone.net>wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@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
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