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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by jg...@apache.org on 2007/10/05 19:53:04 UTC

svn commit: r582364 - /ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/Resource.java

Author: jglick
Date: Fri Oct  5 10:53:03 2007
New Revision: 582364

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=582364&view=rev
Log:
Javadoc clarification for Resource.getLastModified.

Modified:
    ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/Resource.java

Modified: ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/Resource.java
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/Resource.java?rev=582364&r1=582363&r2=582364&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/Resource.java (original)
+++ ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/Resource.java Fri Oct  5 10:53:03 2007
@@ -172,10 +172,11 @@
     }
 
     /**
-     * Tells the modification time in milliseconds since 01.01.1970 .
+     * Tells the modification time in milliseconds since 01.01.1970 (the "epoch").
      *
-     * @return 0 if the resource does not exist to mirror the behavior
-     * of {@link java.io.File File}.
+     * @return the modification time, if that is meaningful (e.g. for a file resource which exists);
+     *         0 if the resource does not exist, to mirror the behavior of {@link java.io.File#lastModified};
+     *         or 0 if the notion of modification time is meaningless for this class of resource (e.g. an inline string)
      */
     public long getLastModified() {
         if (isReference()) {



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