> I think Ant is too tied to the *real* command line for my
> purposes. I like the ideas behind
> Xcommander.
=)
> > XCommander was not designed for complex commands. It is easy
> > to add in those capabilities, but doing so _right_ would
> > require significant refactoring. If someone does that, then
> > I'm +1. -1 until then.
>
> What sort of refactoring required.
I looked at the code again, and refactoring is probably the
wrong word. It currently doesn't support all primitive types
correctly, nor does it support RMI-style commands (I want it
to be able to support remote objects directly). Secondly,
it provides no security management.
> What I am looking for
> =====================
>
> Inside Jesktop I have a 98% full functioned beanshell working.
> It sould be nice to use it to fire
> commands at server components in the same VM (or an alternative VM)
You'd still have to write the tool to parse the commands
to java code. And when you've done that, you might want to
leave the xml out of the picture and just execute the
supplied commands directly...
XML is tremendously useful as an inter-application communication
tool, and also as a storage mechanism. The inner-app uses are
much more limited...
To me, it sounds like you're looking for a tool that converts
strings in the form of 'new James.AddUserCmd("Fred")' to actual
java. The most simple solution would be jPython or RMI.
Of course, I'd still like to see XCommander in widespread use,
so don't let me stop you =)
> Incidentally: I'd reckon a toXML() would be better than
> toString() on the commands.
me too. This needs fixing...go ahead ;)
cheers,
LSD
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