Reusing the same instance of ant

[Robert Leftwich <di...@ix.net.au>]

It strikes me that it would be useful to be able to reuse the same instance 
of Ant when in the continuous cycle of code/compile/test as there is an 
overhead of starting up the jvm and parsing the build files that could be 
avoided.
What I am envisaging is at its simplest, a loop that runs Ant and then 
instead of exiting it writes to System.out "Press R to re-run or Q to 
quit". If R is pressed it re-runs Ant without reparsing the build files (or 
whatever is necessary to get the best turn around time). Is this possible 
already and I have missed it in the doco ? Has anyone else contemplated 
this variation on the usage of Ant or am I barking up the wrong tree?

TIA

Robert

Re: Reusing the same instance of ant

[Diane Holt <ho...@yahoo.com>]

Search on "antshell" in the ant-dev archives for a recent discussion about
doing this sort of thing.

Diane

--- Robert Leftwich <di...@ix.net.au> wrote:
> It strikes me that it would be useful to be able to reuse the same
> instance 
> of Ant when in the continuous cycle of code/compile/test as there is an 
> overhead of starting up the jvm and parsing the build files that could
> be 
> avoided.
> What I am envisaging is at its simplest, a loop that runs Ant and then 
> instead of exiting it writes to System.out "Press R to re-run or Q to 
> quit". If R is pressed it re-runs Ant without reparsing the build files
> (or 
> whatever is necessary to get the best turn around time). Is this
> possible 
> already and I have missed it in the doco ? Has anyone else contemplated 
> this variation on the usage of Ant or am I barking up the wrong tree?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Robert
> 


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