Hi, I am new to the world of Ant, and I have found that it is a fantastic tool for managing Java projects, large and small. I'll go back to using make about the same time I go back to using C.
Anyway, I have one suggestion/request: Ant has tasks for ftp and telnet. That is useful but unfortunately those two protocols are deprecated. How about a task for scp and ssh? I have been able to do both of those with no problem using an <exec> task with the right public key file options but it would still be cool if this had native support in Ant. I realize there is not yet a native Java ssh client so maybe this is the problem. It is pretty cool to set up a .ssh/authorized_keys file on the server machine, and have a line like this: command="tomcat4 start" rsa-key...... and then have a task in Ant which execs ssh -i start-tomcat-key serverhost. That way I never have to leave my development environment to control everything that's going on, and there's no compromise to security. Thanks for the great tool! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
