I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade, but have you considered...
It seems to me that there are as many completely different ways of using Ant as there are projects in this world. If you were to supply a "standard" build script, ready for customization, what input file structure would it expect? What language would be compiled (if any)? What distribution structure should be created and what files should be used to populate it? What configuration control system should be accessed to obtain the "input files" (if any)? What common properties would exist? etc.
Actually, I have not seen *that* many java project structures.
I mean, there is a source dir, a build dir, a tests dir...
While I agree that there is some commonality across many Java projects (in that Java has a packaging mechanism that utilizes
directories etc. and that these projects commonly produce one or more
JAR files) it seems to me that this approach would either be too
restrictive on the type of project that could utilize it or that so
much customization would be required as to negate the usefulness of
it.
Netbeans thinks otherwise, and in fact *does* include a basic build.
All IDEs have their layout, and tons of projects have used it without customizations.
Perhaps better to provide some more sophisticated example build scripts covering the use of Ant on client side and server (multi-JAR)>
Java projects (and other languages if any contributions could be
taken for these). I'd especially like to see examples that:
* split the build into several sections (perhaps using subant) in order to generate multiple, "tree dependent" JARs (i.e. one JAR
depends on another but there are no cyclic dependencies)
* utilize
something like XSLT to generate Ant scripts from simple XML files
that define the inter-dependencies within such a multi-part build
> > * use a repository accessor (along the lines of the "get libraries"
stuff that has recently been discussed a lot on this list) to obtain dependency JARs from other projects
Krysalis Centipede did this years ago, but the project failed.
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