No, the Velocity does not have Ant tasks.
Just the Anakia ones, I guess. I'm kinda surprised there isn't more Ant integration with Velocity. I'm actually in the midst of doing a static blog site generation Ant task using Velocity (the generator will be pluggable, but Velocity is the primary templating engine I'm using now).
Well, I am not sure on this. I think it's OK that the velocity task is distributed in either Ant or Velocity. But I wish this task to be committed and released. I have been watching Velocity-dev ML for a while, but there is still no release after velocity-1.3.1-rc2 (July 25, 2002), and proposed features seems to be neglected after short discussions...
*sigh* - While I can appreciate the effort it takes to do a final release of a Jakarta project (deep bow to Magesh!) I find that the Velocity/Turbine projects suffer more than other Jakarta projects and live in perpetual beta/RC state. Such a shame.
I just added this patch to Bugzilla, Ant's area.
Should I post this patch to Velocity-dev ML also? Opinions please > all.
Since Conor has picked this up, lets let him decide where he wants to go with it first. I'm happy to have it within Ant's codebase, personally.
As for XDoclet tags, I will look into it from now. Would you give me a pointer of documentations I should read?
First, just for fun, run the build in proposal/xdocs (be sure to have the latest from CVS). If you encounter problems, let me know. Then look at what it generates in the build directory. If your task is part of the binary of Ant you are running and in the Ant source tree on your local machine then you should see your task documentation generated. Check it for accuracy.
Look at other Ant tasks in the Ant codebase and see the @tags on several of them. Eventually I'll document these tags more thoroughly than just referring to the source code, but that will give you an idea of whats going on. The goal is to have the XML generated be sufficient enough to generate Ant's task/datatype documentation eventually.
Erik
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