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Conor MacNeill
24 years ago
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| @@ -37,6 +37,28 @@ Changes that could break older environments: | |||
| * <fixcrlf> will not remove trailing whitespace at the end of lines anymore. | |||
| * The Classloader usage has been changed for the taskdef, property, available | |||
| and sql tasks so that it delegates to the parent classloader. This may cause | |||
| ClassNotFoundExceptions to be thrown if a system class attempts to load a | |||
| class in the taskdef's classpath (typically factory objects). | |||
| * Ant now allows multithreading of tasks and the containment of tasks within | |||
| other tasks. This can break customer listeners which do not expect messages | |||
| from a task before the previous task has finished. | |||
| * Ant now installs its own ouput stream into System.out to route output to the | |||
| task currently executing on the current thread. This also means that all | |||
| output is now routed as Ant message events. Customer listeners and loggers | |||
| should not call System.out at any time. This has always been true but such | |||
| usage now will cause problems due to possible recursion. | |||
| * Invalid manifest files will now cause build failures in the <jar> task. | |||
| * Ant Introspection now looks for methods with method names starting with | |||
| addConfigured. When called these methods are passed an argument after it has | |||
| been configured from the build file. Custom tasks supporting nested elements | |||
| starting with the name configured will no longer function. | |||
| Other changes: | |||
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| @@ -75,18 +97,25 @@ Other changes: | |||
| * New <junit> formatter named "brief" | |||
| * Add support for Borland Application Server to the <ejbjar> task using | |||
| a <borland> nested element. | |||
| * Add support for iPlanet Application Server to the <ejbjar> task. Also | |||
| includes some iPlanet utility tasks | |||
| * Add support for JBoss Application Server to the <ejbjar> task. | |||
| * Add a naming attribute to <ejbjar> to control the naming scheme that | |||
| ejbjar uses to name the generated EJB jars. | |||
| * <ejbjar> changes | |||
| * Add support for Borland Application Server to the <ejbjar> task using | |||
| a <borland> nested element. | |||
| * Add support for iPlanet Application Server to the <ejbjar> task. Also | |||
| includes some iPlanet utility tasks | |||
| * Add support for JBoss Application Server to the <ejbjar> task. | |||
| * Add a naming attribute to control the naming scheme that | |||
| ejbjar uses to name the generated EJB jars. | |||
| * Weblogic element now sets the compiler class for EJB 2.0 beans | |||
| * <dtd> elements can be specified at the <ejbjar> level for building generic | |||
| beans | |||
| * <dtd> elements can now be URLs | |||
| * Allow the manifest to be specified for the generated jars | |||
| * The weblogic element now supprts an attribte noEJBC to skip the processing | |||
| of the jar by ejbc. The ejbc step will then occur at deployment | |||
| * weblogic will tell ejbc to use Jikes compiler if build.compiler is set to | |||
| jikes. It can be restored to the default, javac, operation if desired. | |||
| * Allow the SQL Delimiter to be set in the so that Oracle stored procs may be | |||
| * Allow the <sql> Delimiter to be set in the so that Oracle stored procs may be | |||
| entered | |||
| * <execon> and <apply> can now optionally skip empty filesets. | |||
| @@ -149,6 +178,40 @@ Other changes: | |||
| * <move> will now try to rename() files before copying them byte by | |||
| byte - only if filtering is of, of course. | |||
| * <ant> and <antcall> tasks now support a new attribute inheritAll. When set to | |||
| false, only user properties are passed through to the target Ant instance. | |||
| This includes properties set on the command line and properties explicitly | |||
| passed | |||
| * <javadoc> now skips off line links if the package list cannot be found. | |||
| * <wlrun> now allows the security policy file to exist outside the weblogic | |||
| directory. | |||
| * <java> task will set the Thread contextClassLoader under JDKs 1.2+ to the | |||
| classloader for the class being executed. | |||
| * Introduce the concept of a TaskContainer - a task or element which can contain | |||
| Ant Tasks. | |||
| * Add new tasks implementing the TaskContainer interface <parallel> and | |||
| <sequential> which allow parallel execution of tasks to be specified. | |||
| * <depend> task will now take into account dependencies on jar files and class | |||
| files from a given classpath. | |||
| * <jar> manifest entries may now be specified in the build file either | |||
| completely or to be merged with a manifest file. | |||
| * <tstamp> task custom formats now support locales. | |||
| * Added a listner which will forward events to Log4J. The log4j configuration | |||
| file should be in the directory from which Ant is run or passed as a system | |||
| property using a JVM argument. | |||
| * Introduced the concept of <filtersets> to allow for more control in which | |||
| filters get applied in a <copy> or <move> operation. | |||
| Fixed bugs: | |||
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| @@ -193,11 +256,11 @@ Fixed bugs: | |||
| * Create the <ejbjar> weblogic command line as a set of arguments rather than | |||
| as a single line. Avoids problems with paths which contain spaces. | |||
| * <ejbjar> now fails when the weblogic ejbc compiler reports an error. | |||
| * Make the AntClassLoader load resources in the same order as it currently | |||
| loads classes. | |||
| * Allow DTD locations to be specified when building generic ejb-jars | |||
| * Handle classpaths with spaces | |||
| * Make sure XSLT processors close their output files in <style>. | |||
| @@ -223,10 +286,31 @@ Fixed bugs: | |||
| * directory based tasks and fileset could miss some included files in | |||
| directories that have been excluded | |||
| * <fixcrl> failed for large files. | |||
| * <fixcrlf> failed for large files. | |||
| * <move> removed files you tried to move to themselves. | |||
| * <sql> task will not trty to print the result set unless the query succeeded. | |||
| * Ant classloader will now ignore paths which are invalid relative to the | |||
| project base | |||
| * <ejbjar> weblogic elements check for jar file changes has been fixed. | |||
| Previously some changes would not be included. | |||
| * properties loaded from properties files are now resolved internally. This | |||
| removes the spurious warnings about usage of properties which have not been | |||
| set. | |||
| * <jar> task and friends now process the JAR manifest to ensure it is valid. | |||
| * The task finished event now includes any exception thrown by the task. | |||
| * <java> task now supports a jvmVersion attribute so that if another JVM is | |||
| being used, Ant can determine which options to use for features such as the | |||
| VM memory limits | |||
| Changes from Ant 1.2 to Ant 1.3 | |||
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