Question

This is my first ant project and I just can’t seem to wrap my mind around it. I want to effectively delete the jar and then bring it back after I run my unit tests. I think this can be simulated with the exclude command. I also think that it should be done under the <classpath> tag. Am I correct in my thinking? I also want this jar to still exist, I just want my build to ignore it when i run this particular target. I have tried this:

<junit fork="no" showoutput="false" printsummary="yes" haltonfailure="false">
     <classpath>
         <fileset dir="${lib.dir}">
             <exclude name="**/*xmlparserv2.jar" />
          </fileset>
     </classpath>
</junit>

But to no avail. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

I ended up moving the jar around during my tests. At the beginning, I delete it, and keep a reference at the root of my class path. Then at the end, i just copy it back: e.g.

<delete file="lib/xmlparserv2.jar"/>
<!--run lots of tests-->
<copy todir="lib" file="xmlparserv2.jar"/>