<control : Parallel>

Description

Executes the contained tasks in separate threads, continuing once all are completed.

New behavior allows for the ant script to specify a maximum number of threads that will be executed in parallel. One should be very careful about using the waitFor task when specifying threadCount as it can cause deadlocks if the number of threads is too small or if one of the nested tasks fails to execute completely. The task selection algorithm will insure that the tasks listed before a task have started before that task is started, but it will not insure a successful completion of those tasks or that those tasks will finish first (i.e. it's a classic race condition).

Parameters

Attribute Description Type Required?
pollinterval Interval to poll for completed threads when threadCount or threadsPerProcessor is specified. Integer in milliseconds.; optional int ?
threadsperprocessor Dynamically generates the number of threads to execute based on the number of available processors (via java.lang.Runtime.availableProcessors()). Requires a J2SE 1.4 VM, and it will overwrite the value set in threadCount. If used in a 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 VM then the task will defer to threadCount.; optional int ?
timeout Sets the timeout on this set of tasks. If the timeout is reached before the other threads complete, the execution of this task completes with an exception. Note that existing threads continue to run. long ?
threadcount Statically determine the maximum number of tasks to execute simultaneously. If there are less tasks than threads then all will be executed at once, if there are more then only threadCount tasks will be executed at one time. If threadsPerProcessor is set and the JVM is at least a 1.4 VM then this value is ignored.; optional int ?
failonany Control whether a failure in a nested task halts execution. Note that the task will complete but existing threads will continue to run - they are not stopped boolean ?

Parameters accepted as nested elements

This Task is a Container (it accepts nested Tasks).

<daemons>

Class which holds a list of tasks to execute
Attribute Description Type Required