ant for dummies question

[Adam Hardy]

I've been using ant for a while with struts and tomcat. Now I'm starting an EJB project and am learning more about ant so I can use it here too.

I'm used to having my java classes in the "src" subdirectory. Yet I was reading an old post "J2EE config/build best practices" from Drew Davison recommending calling the source code dir "java" - which is more common?

Also the struts-originated build.xmls hard-coded the directory name in, but wouldn't it be better to have it in the build.properties?

Instead of

<javac srcdir="src"
destdir="${build.home}/classes"
debug="${compile.debug}"
deprecation="${compile.deprecation}"
optimize="${compile.optimize}">
<classpath refid="compile.classpath"/>
</javac>

have this:

<javac srcdir="${src}" ....


Thanks for any advice!

Adam


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