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<document>
<properties>
<author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Adam Murdoch</author>
<title>Differences to Ant1</title>
</properties>
<body>
<section name="Differences to Ant 1.x">
<p>Some of the differences between Ant 1.x and Myrmidon:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Groups of tasks can be assembled into self-describing
<i>antlib</i> task libraries. This makes it very easy to
distribute and install tasks and data-types.
</li>
<li> A project can import other projects, and reference their
targets. </li>
<li>Properties and data type references now share the same
namespace.</li>
<li>
Changes to task and data-type API:
<ul>
<li>An interface based API, through which a task
interacts with the
task engine, and the services it provides.</li>
<li>A well-defined object lifecycle.</li>
<li>Polymorphic types are supported when objects are
configured.</li>
<li>Reference handling is handled automatically when
objects are configured.</li>
<li>Aspects can be used to decorate tasks, to add
facilities like logging,
error handling, or user preferences.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>A set of well-defined services and APIs have been
introduced, to allow
tasks to do their work without depending on other tasks:
<ul>
<li>Execute external commands.</li>
<li>Execute other tasks.</li>
<li>Manage ClassLoaders and Class-paths.</li>
<li>Virtual file system (in progress).</li>
<li>Execute Java applications (in progress).</li>
<li>...</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>There are plenty more features planned. You can read about
them
<a href="todo.html">here</a>.
</p>
</section>
</body>
</document>
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