Background running a Java application

[thekobbler]

Hi guys,

I'm using Ant to extract files from CVS, Compile, and then use JUnit/JFCUnit to test the application, and then test (using JFCUnit) the User interface. My application requires a test harness (to act as a server to my application) to be started as a separate process, so I thought that's simple I'll simply start it using the <java> task, and set fork=&quot;true&quot; to make it run in a separate JVM.

My problem is that the <java> task isn't completed until the Java application (i.e. the test harness) has been completed/closed, but it must be running at the same time as my tests. I would therefore like to &quot;run&quot; the test harness in background mode, so ANT can then continue to execute the next ant-targets that start the JUnit/JFCUnit tests.

Can anyone help?

 

[phosy]

Hi.

I was looking for something very similar to what you ask. I have found it in this link.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=105767132313150&w=2

and in

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=100621497023872&w=2

you will found an Unix script to do what you ask for. I copied the script to ANT_HOME.

Regards.

 

[thekobbler]

Cheers phosy,

the second link seems to provide a good solution. As usual with these things there are usual workarounds ;-)