Hi Daniel,

  If I need continuous integration from Source control then I will
require both
ant and CruiseControl. Otherwise I can schedule a scrip (ant build
script) to
run at specific time.


Regards,
Pranathi

On Dec 18, 3:25 pm, Daniel Hommel <[email protected]>
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> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:03:38 -0800 (PST)
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> Pranathi <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Hi Daniel,
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> >         We have different solutions developed in Java and .NET.  We
> > want to use cruise control
> > as continuous integration tool for combing our .NET and Java
> > applications. We will have one build server
> > and install cruisecontrol, IDE for .NET solutions, JDK for Java
> > solutions. If we have to use ant for
> > Java then we might as well use the same for .NET applicaitons too,
> > then we might not require cruise control.
> > We need to go for one tool either nant/ant or cruise Control.
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> > Thanks,
> > Pranathi
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> Hi Pranathi,
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> in my opinion there is a important difference in this both types of
> tools:
> -Ant and NAnt (and MSBuild, Maven etc) are build tools
> -CruiseControl(.NET/.rb or the Java one) is a continuous integration
> tool, not a build tool in the sense of the above
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> Build tools are used for automating a build (compile, test, deploy etc).
> Continuous Integration tools are used to continuously run the automated
> builds and report the results. To me these are two different jobs and i
> do not see a problem with using Ant or NAnt with CruiseControl. I guess
> most of the people are using it that way. Do you have reasons for
> stricly using only one tool for both jobs?
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> regards,
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