Newbie question: Multiple UnJars.

[Bill Carey <bi...@hotmail.com>]

Hi,
    I appologize if I'm sending this message to the list twice, but I'm 
using a brain-dead web MUA and I'm not sure if the original went out.

    I'm an ANT newbie and I'm trying to unjar a set of jar files in a given 
directory and then jar them into a single big jar.  Unfortunately, the Unjar 
task only takes a single file as an arg and I have no a priori knowledge as 
to what jars will be in the source directory.  It seems I could use SCRIPT 
in the optional tasks distribution, but I'm concerned I'd lose portability 
if I embedded say PERL in the build config.  I think there's probably a way 
to do this using AntCall(), but I've been unable to figure how.  I also 
looked briefly at writing my own task, but the ANT API docs haven't been 
cooked yet.  Can anyone provide me with some pointers on the best way to do 
this?

                                      Thanks in advance,
                                                       Bill



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RE: Newbie question: Multiple UnJars.

[Conor MacNeill <co...@cortexebusiness.com.au>]

Bill,

A couple of things.

If source is a directory, unjar will expand all files in the directory. This
will work in Ant 1.4 but will try to expand everything in the directory. The
preferred solution in future will be to add fileset capability to
expand.java (the class that actually provides unjar).

The API docs should be included in your Ant distribution. I have not loaded
them onto the website. Do people want the API docs on line.

Conor