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<h2><a name="rmic">Rmic</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Runs the rmic compiler for a certain class.</p>
<p>Rmic can be run on a single class (as specified with the classname
attribute) or a number of classes at once (all classes below base that
are neither _Stub nor _Skel classes). If you want to rmic a single
class and this class is a class nested into another class, you have to
specify the classname in the form <code>Outer$$Inner</code> instead of
<code>Outer.Inner</code>.</p>
<p>It is possible to refine the set of files that are being rmiced. This can be
done with the <i>includes</i>, <i>includesfile</i>, <i>excludes</i>, <i>excludesfile</i> and <i>defaultexcludes</i>
attributes. With the <i>includes</i> or <i>includesfile</i> attribute you specify the files you want to
have included by using patterns. The <i>exclude</i> or <i>excludesfile</i> attribute is used to specify
the files you want to have excluded. This is also done with patterns. And
finally with the <i>defaultexcludes</i> attribute, you can specify whether you
want to use default exclusions or not. See the section on <a
href="../dirtasks.html#directorybasedtasks">directory based tasks</a>, on how the
inclusion/exclusion of files works, and how to write patterns.</p>
<p>This task forms an implicit <a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a> and
supports all attributes of <code><fileset></code>
(<code>dir</code> becomes <code>base</code>) as well as the nested
<code><include></code>, <code><exclude></code> and
<code><patternset></code> elements.</p>
<p>It is possible to use different compilers. This can be selected with the
"build.rmic" property. There are three choices:</p>
<ul>
<li>sun (the standard compiler of the JDK)</li>
<li>kaffe (the standard compiler of <a href="http://www.kaffe.org" target="_top">Kaffe</a>)</li>
<li>weblogic</li>
</ul>
<p>The <a href="http://dione.zcu.cz/~toman40/miniRMI/">miniRMI</a>
project contains a compiler implementation for this task as well,
please consult miniRMI's documentation to learn how to use it.</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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<td valign="top">base</td>
<td valign="top">the location to store the compiled files.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">classname</td>
<td valign="top">the class for which to run <code>rmic</code>.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">filtering</td>
<td valign="top">indicates whether token filtering should take place</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">sourcebase</td>
<td valign="top">Pass the "-keepgenerated" flag to rmic and
move the generated source file to the base directory.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">stubversion</td>
<td valign="top">Specify the JDK version for the generated stub code.
Specify "1.1" to pass the "-v1.1" option to rmic.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">classpath</td>
<td valign="top">The classpath to use during compilation</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">classpathref</td>
<td valign="top">The classpath to use during compilation, given as <a
href="../using.html#references">reference</a> to a PATH defined elsewhere</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">includes</td>
<td valign="top">comma separated list of patterns of files that must be
included. All files are included when omitted.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">includesfile</td>
<td valign="top">the name of a file. Each line of this file is
taken to be an include pattern</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">excludes</td>
<td valign="top">comma separated list of patterns of files that must be
excluded. No files (except default excludes) are excluded when omitted.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">excludesfile</td>
<td valign="top">the name of a file. Each line of this file is
taken to be an exclude pattern</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">defaultexcludes</td>
<td valign="top">indicates whether default excludes should be used or not
("yes"/"no"). Default excludes are used when omitted.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">verify</td>
<td valign="top">check that classes implement Remote before handing them
to rmic (default is false)</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">iiop</td>
<td valign="top">indicates that portable (RMI/IIOP) stubs should be generated</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">iiopopts</td>
<td valign="top">additional arguments for IIOP class generation</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">idl</td>
<td valign="top">indicates that IDL output files should be generated</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">idlopts</td>
<td valign="top">additional arguments for IDL file generation</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">debug</td>
<td valign="top">generate debug info (passes -g to rmic). Defaults to false.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">includeAntRuntime</td>
<td valign="top">whether to include the Ant run-time libraries;
defaults to <code>yes</code>.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">includeJavaRuntime</td>
<td valign="top">whether to include the default run-time
libraries from the executing VM; defaults to <code>no</code>.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">extdirs</td>
<td valign="top">location of installed extensions.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
<h4>classpath and extdirs</h4>
<p><code>Rmic</code>'s <i>classpath</i> and <i>extdirs</i> attributes are <a
href="../using.html#path">PATH like structure</a> and can also be set via a nested
<i>classpath</i> and <i>extdirs</i> elements.</p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre> <rmic classname="com.xyz.FooBar" base="${build}/classes"/></pre>
<p>runs the rmic compiler for the class <code>com.xyz.FooBar</code>. The
compiled files will be stored in the directory <code>${build}/classes</code>.</p>
<pre> <rmic base="${build}/classes" includes="**/Remote*.class"/></pre>
<p>runs the rmic compiler for all classes with <code>.class</code>
files below <code>${build}/classes</code> whose classname starts with
<i>Remote</i>. The compiled files will be stored in the directory
<code>${build}/classes</code>.</p>
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