Forcing a wait before completion on ant targets

[Vinicius Carvalho]

Hello there! I'm building an ant script that needs to stop the server, copy some files and then start it again.
I'm using antcall to start/stop the server. So when I run my task it begins to stop the server, but it calls the start before the shutdown was donne.

How can I force the completion of the first antcall before the second is started?

Regards

[Paul Sturrock]

Difficult. You can use the <waitfor /> task with nested socket and http elements to wait until the server stops responding. However in my experience this is not too reliable, though it may be worth a try (who knows, you may have better luck than I did). What I did that worked was write a custom task to tail the server log for a know "shutdown" log message. Once that arrived I assumed the server has properly shutdown and let Ant carry on.

[Ilja Preuss]

I think Ant also has a sleep task if everything else fails.