How exactly do you escape special characters from ANT? Say if you need to add extra ” quotation characters within a property which already has a set of quotes?
Here’s how to do it — use XML Character entity references:
For > use >
For < use <
For “ use "
For & use &
For ‘ use '
Any other [...]
Wow. This little problem was extremely tricky to detect — mainly due to WebLogic’s wlappc ANT Task’s poor documentation. In one of the projects I’m working on, there is a need to pre-compile WebLogic JSP so it will be much faster during deployment/runtime and we can catch any potential errors early. Previously, this step of [...]
Ever run into an ANT compilation or ANT task related compilation OutOfMemoryError problem? This little bugger of a problem can be rather tricky to debug. You may run into this problem when you have a large collection of source files to compile (think 1000+). You may also run into this problem with the following WebLogic [...]