I'm posting to the user list although most of the following is geared towards Cactus developers. However, for end users it means that there will be some change in the distributables that you can download from the Cactus web site (only for the nightly builds for the time being).
------- I have committed a new Cactus subproject : anttasks. It contains the existing Cactus custom Ant tasks. They have been extracted from the main Cactus project and put into their own subproject (i.e. they have their own build, etc). Why ? Because : * They are generic and some of them can be used independently of Cactus * The idea is to have different subprojects : anttasks, framework (the core Cactus), sample subprojects (one sample for servlet and one for j2ee). For the moment, only the anttasks subproject has been created. * For the moment the anttasks subproject only contains ant tasks. However, I envision that in the future it will be part of a more global group of contributions which are built on top of Cactus, with the goal to simplify the use of Cactus. They could be : IDE plugins, cactus test case code generators, etc. When this happens we'll probably move all these subprojects into a "contrib" directory. * The Cactus ant tasks will be available as a separate download on the web site. * There was the need for more flexibility for the Cactus sample and the current development directory structure was becoming very complex and the build files difficult to read. This new scheme should allow for more flexibility. TODO for anttasks : * Move the Ant scripts for starting the different containers from the core framework to the anttasks subproject. * Add javadoc + HTML documentation for anttasks. I Hope you like it ! Thanks -Vincent -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
