ant targets are outputting too many times - ant

Question

I've got an ant file which looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="p" default="compile" basedir=".">
<path id="compile.cliClasspath">
<fileset dir="./WebContent/WEB-INF/lib">
<include name="*.jar" />
</fileset>
</path>
<target name="init">
<!-- Create the time stamp -->
<tstamp />
</target>
<target name="compile" description="compile the source" >
<javac srcdir="./src/" destdir="C:\TEMP\build">
<classpath refid="compile.cliClasspath" />
</javac>
</target>
<target name="createWar" depends="compile" description="create web archive">
<war destfile="C:\TEMP\client.war"
webxml="./WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml"
needxmlfile="true"
basedir="./WebContent"
excludesfile="./WebContent/WEB-INF/application.xml">
<lib dir="./WebContent/WEB-INF/lib" />
<classes dir="C:\TEMP\build" />
</war>
</target>
<target name="createEar" depends="compile, createWar" description="create enterprise archive">
<ear destfile="C:\TEMP\Client.ear"
appxml="./WebContent/WEB-INF/application.xml"
includes="C:\TEMP\Client.war" />
</target>
<target name="cleanUp" depends="compile, createWar, createEar" description="clean up">
<delete includeemptydirs="true">
<fileset dir="C:\TEMP\build" includes="**/*" />
</delete>
</target>
</project>
The idea being to create an ear with the content of my web app. When I run this (run as with order as in the file, from galileo) I get this:
Buildfile: C:\Client-was7.xml
<snip>init:
compile:
[javac] Compiling 47 source files to C:\TEMP\build
compile:
[javac] Compiling 47 source files to C:\TEMP\build
createWar:
[war] Building war: C:\TEMP\Client.war
compile:
[javac] Compiling 47 source files to C:\TEMP\build
createWar:
[war] Building war: C:\TEMP\Client.war
createEar:
compile:
[javac] Compiling 47 source files to C:\TEMP\build
createWar:
[war] Building war: C:\TEMP\Client.war
createEar:
cleanUp:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 15 seconds
Why isn't the output:
init:
compile:
createWar:
createEar:
cleanUp:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 15 seconds
?
Thanks

Answer 1

I think it may have to do with the depends targets. when you run create ear, you first run compile, and then create war, which also depends on compile and so on.