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* ant1 frontpage
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* some other random thoughts
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<document>
<properties>
- <author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Adam Murdoch</author>
- <title>Introduction</title>
+ <author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Peter Donald</author>
+ <title>Myrmidon</title>
</properties>
<body>
+ <section name="What is Ant?">
- <section name="What is Myrmidon?">
+ <p>Ant is a cross-platform build tool that features ease of
+ use and extensibility as it's primary goal.</p>
- <p>
- Myrmidon is one of the Ant 2 proposals currently in development.
You can
- read more about the goals of Ant 2
+ <p>Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake,
+ nmake, jam, and others? Make-like tools are inherently
shell-based;
+ they execute native commands and shell scripts to perform the
work
+ associated with the build process. So to extend the the tool by
+ writing a program or script executable by the OS you are on. This
+ makes it difficult to achieve portability between platforms.</p>
+
+ <p>Ant is a different beast. Instead of using OS-specific
commands
+ to extend the build process, you leverage the cross-platform
features
+ of Java to write "tasks". This makes it much easier to
achieve
+ a portal build process between platforms. Ant also differs in
that it uses
+ XML to describe the build process.</p>
- <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant2/";>here</a>.
+ </section>
- </p>
+ <section name="What is Myrmidon?">
- <p>
- Myrmidon is a general-purpose
- <i>task engine</i>. It contains the basic
- building blocks for assembling any sort of task-based tool. Ant
2
- is an example of such a tool, which could be assembled using the
Myrmidon task
- engine, and a library of build related tasks.
+ <p>Myrmidon is a proposal for Ant 2. Ant2 is the next evolution
of the
+ Ant build tool aimed at removing many of the limitations of the
Ant1.x
+ product. In particular it aims to;</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Remove ambiguities and points of confusion for build file
+ writers.</li>
+ <li>Ease deployment and management of 3rd party tasks and
+ dependencies.</li>
+ <li>Simplify development of tasks by task-writers.</li>
+ <li>Enable ad-hoc "tasks" to be written inside
build file,
+ probably using well known scripting languages such as python
and
+ javascript. (Possible in ant1.x but prohibitively
difficult).</li>
+ <li>Integrate templating technologies such as XSLT, velocity
etc
+ to enable development of reusable build file elements.</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p> You can read more about the goals of Ant 2
+ <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant2/";>here</a>.
</p>
- <p>
- Currently, Myrmidon is a prototype of what a task engine might
look. It
- includes a small set of tasks and data types. We are currently
porting
- many of the Ant 1.x tasks to the Myrmidon task engine.
+ <p>Myrmidon was specifically designed as both a tool and as
+ an API library that can be reused in other products. It contains
the
+ basic building blocks for assembling any sort of task-based
tool. Ant 2
+ is an example of such a tool, which could be assembled using the
Myrmidon
+ task container, and a library of build related tasks.
</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section name="A Rose by any other name ...">
<p>
+ The name Myrmidon is a derivation of a mythological name for
some ants that were turned
+ into soldiers by the god Zeus. It came to mean "a subordinate
who executes orders
+ unquestioningly" which seemed suitable for a task
execution/build tool. A more complete
+ description stolen from
+ <a
href="http://bondi-blue.parlez.com/previous_words/myrmidon.txt";>
+
http://bondi-blue.parlez.com/previous_words/myrmidon.txt</a>.
</p>
+ <quote>
+ <i>The appellation Myrmidon was derived from the Greek word
"myrmex",
+ meaning ant. According to Greek mythology, the Myrmidons
were
+ transformed into humans by the god Zeus as an act of
kindness to his
+ son Aeacus. King Aeacus, captivated by a colony of ants,
prayed
+ that he should receive an increase in population equal to the
+ number of ants before him. When he awoke the next day, the
ants
+ were his human subjects. Thereafter, they were known as the
+ Myrmidons. See "The Iliad" for Homers' account of the
Myrmidons
+ during the Trojan War.</i>
+ </quote>
</section>
-
</body>
-
</document>
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<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1"/>
- <meta name="author" value="Adam Murdoch">
- <meta name="email" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
+ <meta name="author" value="Peter Donald">
+ <meta name="email" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
- <title>Apache Myrmidon - Introduction</title>
+ <title>Apache Myrmidon - Myrmidon</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#525D76">
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
+ <a name="What is Ant?"><strong>What is Ant?</strong></a>
+ </font>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr><td>
+ <blockquote>
+ <p>Ant is a cross-platform build tool that features
ease of
+ use and extensibility as it's primary goal.</p>
+ <p>Why another build tool when there is
already make, gnumake,
+ nmake, jam, and others? Make-like tools are inherently
shell-based;
+ they execute native commands and shell scripts to perform the
work
+ associated with the build process. So to extend the the tool by
+ writing a program or script executable by the OS you are on. This
+ makes it difficult to achieve portability between platforms.</p>
+ <p>Ant is a different beast. Instead of
using OS-specific commands
+ to extend the build process, you leverage the cross-platform
features
+ of Java to write "tasks". This makes it much easier to achieve
+ a portal build process between platforms. Ant also differs in
that it uses
+ XML to describe the build process.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+ </td></tr>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
+ <tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
+ <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="What is Myrmidon?"><strong>What is Myrmidon?</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
- <p>
- Myrmidon is one of the Ant 2 proposals currently in development.
You can
- read more about the goals of Ant 2
-
+ <p>Myrmidon is a proposal for Ant 2. Ant2 is the
next evolution of the
+ Ant build tool aimed at removing many of the limitations of the
Ant1.x
+ product. In particular it aims to;</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Remove ambiguities and points of confusion for build file
+ writers.</li>
+ <li>Ease deployment and management of 3rd party tasks and
+ dependencies.</li>
+ <li>Simplify development of tasks by task-writers.</li>
+ <li>Enable ad-hoc "tasks" to be written inside build file,
+ probably using well known scripting languages such as python
and
+ javascript. (Possible in ant1.x but prohibitively
difficult).</li>
+ <li>Integrate templating technologies such as XSLT, velocity
etc
+ to enable development of reusable build file elements.</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p> You can read more about the goals of Ant
2
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant2/";>here</a>.
-
- </p>
- <p>
- Myrmidon is a general-purpose
- <i>task engine</i>. It contains the basic
- building blocks for assembling any sort of task-based tool. Ant
2
- is an example of such a tool, which could be assembled using the
Myrmidon task
- engine, and a library of build related tasks.
-
</p>
- <p>
- Currently, Myrmidon is a prototype of what a task engine might
look. It
- includes a small set of tasks and data types. We are currently
porting
- many of the Ant 1.x tasks to the Myrmidon task engine.
+ <p>Myrmidon was specifically designed as
both a tool and as
+ an API library that can be reused in other products. It contains
the
+ basic building blocks for assembling any sort of task-based
tool. Ant 2
+ is an example of such a tool, which could be assembled using the
Myrmidon
+ task container, and a library of build related tasks.
</p>
- <p>
+ </blockquote>
+ </td></tr>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
+ <tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
+ <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
+ <a name="A Rose by any other name ..."><strong>A Rose by any other
name ...</strong></a>
+ </font>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr><td>
+ <blockquote>
+ <p>
+ The name Myrmidon is a derivation of a mythological name for
some ants that were turned
+ into soldiers by the god Zeus. It came to mean "a subordinate
who executes orders
+ unquestioningly" which seemed suitable for a task
execution/build tool. A more complete
+ description stolen from
+ <a
href="http://bondi-blue.parlez.com/previous_words/myrmidon.txt";>
+
http://bondi-blue.parlez.com/previous_words/myrmidon.txt</a>.
</p>
+ <quote>
+ <i>The appellation Myrmidon was derived from the Greek word
"myrmex",
+ meaning ant. According to Greek mythology, the Myrmidons
were
+ transformed into humans by the god Zeus as an act of
kindness to his
+ son Aeacus. King Aeacus, captivated by a colony of ants,
prayed
+ that he should receive an increase in population equal to the
+ number of ants before him. When he awoke the next day, the
ants
+ were his human subjects. Thereafter, they were known as the
+ Myrmidons. See "The Iliad" for Homers' account of the
Myrmidons
+ during the Trojan War.</i>
+ </quote>
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
</table>
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