Forget

The Forget task will execute a set of tasks sequentially as a background thread. Once the thread is started, control is returned to the calling target. This is useful in being able to kick off a background server process, such as a webserver. This allows you to not have to use the parallel task to start server processes.

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
daemon	Should the created thread be a daemon thread. That is, should the ANT program be allowed to exit if the thread is still running.	No. Defaults to true.

Example

The following code

    
    <forget>
        <exec executeable="${env.CATALINA_HOME}/bin/catalina.bat}">
            <arg line="start -security" />
        </exec>
    </forget>

    <waitfor maxwait="1" maxwaitunit="minute"
                checkevery="100" checkeveryunit="millisecond">
        <http url="http://localhost:8080" />
    </waitfor>

Would start the Tomcat webserver as a background process, then waiting for the server to become available.