Running a Jar file

[Tim McCune <ti...@channelpoint.com>]

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The <java> task doesn't seem to do a very good job of letting you run
a jar file (e.g. "java -jar foo.jar").  It requires you to provide a
classname attribute, which isn't needed in this case.  With Ant 1.1,
I just used
classname=""
but Ant 1.2 complains about this.  For now, I'm using
classname=" "
(a space) and it seems to work.  But I thought someone might want to
fix this before things break further.

Tim McCune
Software Architect, ChannelPoint
"Why does the worst software always cost the most?" -- Anonymous


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Re: Running a Jar file

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@bost.de>]

Tim McCune <ti...@channelpoint.com> wrote:

> The <java> task doesn't seem to do a very good job of letting you
> run a jar file (e.g. "java -jar foo.jar").

Maybe this is because it is not intended to be used that way. What is
the benefit of using <java> instead of <exec> in a situation like
this?

Stefan