Well, as you've noticed, I went and took the few simple steps needed to dust off, deliver, and document the ant-tasks as we have them.
I think we should move this to the list to see if anyone else is posessed of an opinion. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Glen Mazza (JIRA) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-1509?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12586638#action_12586638] > > Glen Mazza commented on CXF-1509: > --------------------------------- > > I don't think you need to worry about this, for the simple reason that I > don't think we really need to have Ant tasks anyway. The <java/> task > guarantees a 100% mapping between the wsdl2java options and what you can do > with Ant (See step #5, GenerateCXFWrapper, of here[1]). In addition, it > guarantees by definition identical option values between the command-line > and the ant-version ([2]), and hence no additional documentation is > necessary for us to maintain or for users to read. > > As for, "using Ant <java/> is more difficult than us providing our own Ant > wrapper", true, but you don't have to worry about that either, because the > IQ needed to work intelligently with web services is much, much higher than > the IQ needed to understand the Ant <java/> task. So you don't have to > worry about people being able to do the former but not the latter, because > such people don't exist. (Such a concern would be tantamount to worrying > that a calculus book is missing a multiplication table on the inside front > cover.) > > Finally, the % of people using Ant is decreasing compared to Maven, > Eclipse, and Command Line--I think Ant users can chug along quite happily > with the <java/> task. FWIW, personally speaking, I would prefer the > <java/> task over our own anyway, because I know its options are identical > to the command-line ones--i.e., I would have nothing extra to read. > > [1] http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/using_the_ebay_shopping_api1 > [2] http://cwiki.apache.org/CXF20DOC/wsdl-to-java.html#WSDLtoJava-usingant > > > > Ant tasks don't support all the options of their corresponding commands > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Key: CXF-1509 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-1509 > > Project: CXF > > Issue Type: Bug > > Components: Tooling > > Affects Versions: 2.1 > > Reporter: Benson Margulies > > > > There are several wsdl2java and java2ws options that would make sense in > ant which are not included in the ant tasks. > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > - > You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. > >
