On Sunday 23 May 2004 06:27, Leo Simons wrote: > I would like to be able to install a couple of things into my ant lib > dir (or something like that similary familiar, an .rpm is good too!), > have a minimal build.xml file, and then run ant instead of some script > (well, I really just want good integration with IDEs, gump, and existing > build systems, including maven-based ones, and ant integration seems to > be a good way to accomplish that).
:o) Then you hold on for Stephen's experiment, which is trying to achieve something like that. IDE integration is hard, since IDEs IMHO are not that programmer-friendly, when it comes to solid build support (for instance, my use of source filtering can get very much in the way.) But I will look into what would be required to provide an automagic Ant wrapper, for IDEs and similar... To manage Gump support, I will need a Gump plugin, which is basically a Javac plugin with dependency resolution disabled. Gump is modified to do a "magic gump.build" and voila... No big deal :o) > Oh, and of course I want AOP, groovy, j2ee, atom, web start, xml web > service support, an emacs mode, and all other kinds of buzzword > compliance! And at least two oreilly books about the thing. And a JSR. :o) Of course... AFAIK, after man-years of development (compared to man-hours) there ain't any books for Maven either. Buzz-word integration is just a matter of 'man-hours'. > Seriously, groovy might be a viable alternative to bsh (or an > experimentally supported alternative, perhaps). I will check out groovy. The near-term plan is to support more plugin types. First step is to allow the BSH ScriptFacade to re-use the compiled Java code instead of the plugin script files, since a class file is always compiled when a Plugin is installed. Then allow for 'pure Java' plugins, and then perhaps add support additional scripting types. Object-Orientation is a requirement though, so some scripting is more or less out of the question. And as I said, I don't know if this will proceed at all. Just fun to see have much could be done in virtually no time, compared to the multi-year effort over at Maven. Cheers Niclas -- +------//-------------------+ / http://www.bali.ac / / http://niclas.hedhman.org / +------//-------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
