Does Ant have the "awareness" to take a directory full of .cfm's and bundle it into a .war file? What about things like datasources, custom tag paths, mail server settings, etc etc? I'll admit I don't know a lot about the Ant tool, but it just doesn't seem intuitive to me that it would be able to do that on its own. I know that the entire CF app server is a J2EE app, but the process that MM uses to build that tool must have some intelligence as to the Java libaries that CF uses to do its thing, etc. If someone from MM can yell at me and tell me I'm wrong, I'd be thrilled!
>Cliff, I'm interested why you want to use CFCs to automate this process when >there are already other powerful tools that will do this for you. Foremost >is Ant which can be completely automated, even via ColdFusion. In fact, >writing a CFC to build WARs would be a neat tool (gears turning here). It >could provide a nice UI to the Ant build structure... Etc, etc. Just writing >down ideas at this point. > >Anyway, the reason I ask is that I've found the build tool in the admin to >not be flexible at all and even doesn't work under certain circumstances. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:200369 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
