On 30 Jul, Vincent Massol wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
>
> I was going to suggest you use Ant for your build process when I read the
> last sentencen saying that you're not using it yet ! :-)
>
Nope. But we should get there in a few weeks.
> On the projects I have been involved with, we use Ant as our "official"
> build process. By "official" I mean that the application being developed
> must be able to be built using Ant from scratch. It must also pass all unit
> and functional tests running Ant. Ant is also used to deploy it. Then, in
> order to increase productivity and let person use their favorite tools, we
> then either leave the choice of the IDE on developers or choose one at the
> beginning of the project. The idea is that you will be able to quickly run
> your unit tests within your IDE and then from time to time you run the Ant
> script to verify everything runs fine. Actually what we often do here is
> even better : we install a dedicated machine that is in charge of doing
> automated builds. We have written some simple Ant scripts which runs
> automatically every few hours, get the code from the repository, build the
> project, build the doc, run the unit tests, run the functional tests and
> package the distribution.
>
That's pretty much what we intend to do but it's fairly comlex in our case.
Not because Ant is complex but because of other considerations. Evetually,
we hope to have the tests run in a continuous loop on a dedicated machine.
> There is no explicit NetBeans integration tutorial on the cactus web site
> (I'm looking for someone who could provide one ... hint ... !) but you can
> have a look at the JBuilder4 one which will look very similar to the
> NetBeans one.
>
> Tell me if you run in any problem and I'll help you.
> Thanks
>
Ok, I'll try a stab at it as soon as I have a little time in fornt of me and
I'll get back to you.
Thanks,
L
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Laurent Duperval <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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