I just wanted to pass along an article I just read in JavaReport, titled "Java Primer - Ant build process mini how-to"
http://www.javareport.com/html/from_pages/article.asp?id=4856&mon=10&yr=2001 There was one point that caught my attention that I thought was inaccurate, or at least not entirely accurate. The first detraction about Ant listed is: "It lacks support for incorporating OS-specific environment variables in the build, as this construct is not portable and not supported directly by Java." <property environment="env"/> incorporates environment variables as Ant properties, prefixed by "env.". But environment variable names are of course OS-specific, and there are tricks that can be done to map different names into a single property name (not pretty, but it works). Erik
