At 09:17 30/10/00 -0800, you wrote: >2) The so called "stateless" nature of HTML makes it >difficult to implement dynamic, event driven >processes, a class of application which Ant falls in. >Imagine trying to add a feature in a HTML based app >whereby the status of a build is updated dynamically >on the screen (which would be even cooler with some of >the paralellism features that have been discussed!). >In an app server/servlet container like JRun most of >the browser configuration is essentially setting >properties, which HTML is great at doing. But whenever >you want to display changing information you need to >drop in an applet, or hack in refreshing pages (did I >miss an approach here?).
DHTML works wonders as does scripting combined with XML. I hate both of them because incredibly difficult to make work across all browsers - thou it is possible ;) >Should build monitoring be a separate "TODO"? Probably. Part of the functionality can be done via listeners at the moment thou this will probably need expanding in future. Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want | | to test a man's character, give him power." | | -Abraham Lincoln | *------------------------------------------------------*
