Yet another sighting. The latest issue of german iX <http://www.heise.de/ix/> - which I happen to be subscribed to - contains articles on Apache 2, Tomcat 3.2 and Ant 1.2 under the main heading "Apache-Trends" - it is the title page story.
Unfortunately the article is not (yet?) available online and they did not give the authors email address - I'm still trying to get some contact information. In any case, the article is written in german. The article itself is rather short but nice. It starts out with the reasons for Ant - citing our README file to the extent that make is labeled "inherently evil" - explains the concept of Project - Target - Task quite nicely and expands quite a bit on data types (path, fileset and patternset get explained). The author gives a quick glance on writing your own tasks (stating it was simple) and calls the Ant Manual excellent 8-) He states that the current behavior of property has led to some larger threads on the mailing list and that the developers had already announced to change the semantics for Ant2 (seems we've committed to it 8-). The whole article closes by saying that Ant has gained a huge momentum and has become the buildtool of choice for many OS Java projects. Stefan
