There are some source dependencies which depend will not detect.
public final class Constants { public final static boolean DEBUG=false; }will not be picked up by other classes.
Parameters
Attribute | Values | Required
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srcDir | This is the directory where the source exists. depend will examine this to determine which classes are out of date. If you use multiple source directories you can pass this attribute a path of source directories. | Yes |
destDir | This is the root directory of the class files which will be analysed. If this is not present, the srcdir is used. | No |
cache | This is a directory in which depend can store and retrieve dependency information. If this is not present, depend will not use a cache | No |
closure | This attribute controls whether depend only removes classes which directly depend on out of date classes. If this is set to true, depend will traverse the class dependency graph deleting all affected classes. Defaults to false | No |
dump | If true the dependency information will be written to the debug level log | No |
classpath | The classpath containg jars and classes for which <depend> should also check dependencies | No |
Parameters specified as nested elements
The depend task's classpath attribute is a PATH-like structure and can also be set via a nested <classpath> element.
Additionally, this task forms an implicit FileSet and supports all attributes of <fileset> (dir becomes srcdir), as well as the nested <include>, <exclude>, and <patternset> elements.
Examples
<depend srcdir="${java.dir}" destdir="${build.classes}" cache="depcache" closure="yes"/>removes any classes in the ${build.classes} directory that depend on out-of-date classes. Classes are considered out-of-date with respect to the source in the ${java.dir} directory, using the same mechanism as the <javac> task. In this example, the <depend> task caches its dependency information in the depcache directory.
<depend srcdir="${java.dir}" destdir="${build.classes}" cache="depcache" closure="yes"> <include name="**/*.java"/> <excludesfile name="${java.dir}/build_excludes"/> </depend>does the same as the previous example, but explicitly includes all .java files, except those that match the list given in ${java.dir}/build_excludes.