I am interested in invoking Ant commands direct from a command line. I am part of a team developing an open source desktop os-like layer called Jesktop (that depends on Avalon). I have already ported Beanshell and it is very cool (http://www.jesktop.org/portedapps.html). I have spent the last hour playing with antidote - very nice.
I have a feeling that getting Ant commands or build files to run in the same way is a long way off. I say this because I understand that: * Ant still slurps from System.in, thus multiple shells in the same VM will not be easy. * Any uses Runtime.exec() to invoke JVM tasks (why doesn't Sun give tools.jar first class access from Java ?) * Antidote is a GUI app for executing targets within a chosen build file - not about typing <copy>... at a command prompt and executinging such commands dynamically. Does anyone like what they see in Jesktop? Intersted in helping Ant move in a compatible direction? Please feel free to download Jesktop (www.jesktop.org), or to look at the Beanshell (www.beanshell.org) to see what's possible in Java. Regards, - Paul H __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
