[BEEHIVE-374] Make <apt> ant task respect the fork attribute

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: V1Alpha, V1Beta, v1m1, 1.0, 1.0.1
• Component/s: Controls
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kyle Marvin
• Created: 01/Mar/05 01:18
• Updated: 22/Nov/05 07:43

Description

The <apt> ant task is built on top of the built-in <javac> task, which includes a "fork" attribute enabling in-proc invocation of the compiler. Currently, the apt task ignores this attribute and will always launch the apt executable in a seperate process.

The Javac ant task has a pluggable architecture for invoking different compilers and already has support built in for the various jdk compilers, jikes, sj, etc.

I think doing this would only involve writing one of these CompilerAdaptor classes for in-proc APT invocations, then modifying AptTask to configure it.

Sample compiler adaptors can be found in the ant source distribution under src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/compilers.