>Does Ant have the "awareness" to take a directory full of .cfm's and bundle it into a .war file? Yes, it's what Ant was made to do. However, one thing it doesn't do that the CF tool allows is the handpicking of datasources and other features. All Ant does is take whatever files and directories you specify and the makes the WAR from it. As usual, the CF team did a good in making something that is manually tasking into a nice user interface.
>What about things like datasources, custom tag paths, mail server settings, etc etc? Again, these are taken as a group, a snapshot if you will of your current server, and built into the WAR. No cool interface to handpick each one. Basically with the Ant tool, you need to set up a dev environment that mimics the production and then build the WAR from that. Thinking back to your original question, I feel I should modify my response. We have a very complex build cycle tha requires multiple J2EE server instances and quite a few tags be compiled into WARs and EARs, so we need the power of Ant. If you have one site with a simple structure, then the CF tool is definitely the way to go. It's quick, easy and has a nice UI for customization. -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Meyers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 10:33 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: adminapi and j2ee packaging 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! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:200371 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
