@@ -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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Conor MacNeill