I'm just beginning to learn Ant, with an eye towards replacing my company's batch
scripts. Our java applications utilize a framework based on a three-tiered model, the
three tiers being a front-end, a proxy, and a back-end.
Any given application developed using this framework must implement the back-end
(which contains most of the business logic), but may or may not implement the top and
middle tiers. In terms of our source tree, this means that the root directory for an
application has between 1-3 subdirectories (one for each tier). Ideally, I'd like to
write an Ant script that would dynamically adjust to how many of the three tiers are
actually implemented in a particular application.
For example, our user management app may only have the back-end implemented. So the
directory for the app would have only one subdirectory. On the other hand, our
customer management app may have the front-end and the back-end implemented, so the
directory would contain two directories.
These subdirectories use standard names, so that's not a problem, and there will
always be between 1 and 3. It's just a matter of how many.
Is it reasonable to ask Ant to do this? Or should I be looking at another tool (say,
a Perl script) that then passes each subdirectory to Ant?
Kyle
