Toby, >> I have been thinking about replacing our Ant based build >> process with jelly >> (using werkz and ant). I would of course still use the Ant >> tag library to >> perform many of the build steps. Now I was wondering if >> there is a way to >> set the Ant basedir property on the project, so the Ant tasks >> use that as >> the base directory to resolve relative paths. I have tried >> setting the >> basedir from command line with -Dbasedir=<somedir>, but >> without success. > >Have you ever tried out maven. I guess maven does everything you need and >more. >Maven is build on top of jelly -> http://jakarata.apache.org/turbine/maven >
Yes, I have looked at Maven before. In some ways I think it does too much and it seems mainly to be targeted at opensource Java projects. Jelly seems to be more flexible in many ways. But I haven't been able to figure out this basedir thing yet... -- knut
