I still don't see how much Ant does for you over Maven but I agree with Ted's point about standardization. I think that is probably the most compelling reason. Ironically, the real benefit of Maven won't be realized until more projects adopt Maven. If the Struts developers are comfortable with Maven, then this makes me a little more interested b/c the MyFaces project works closely with these folks.
Ant gives you plenty of things out of the box as well. You can use a forrest task to build your website, you use javadoc task to generate your javadoc, junit to run your unit tests (and generate reports.) As for Maven generating your Ant script, I'm a little skeptical that it could handle a really complex Ant script like we are using now in MyFaces. But now that James is a committer on that project, I'm sure he will start to research this once he gets a little free time ;-) I have also heard that Maven can generate IDE specific project files automatically. Has this been attempted with Struts? That is something Ant definitely cannot do, and that would be a definite plus for new developers who want to contribute patches, etc. It takes quite a while to setup a proper JBuilder project file for instance ... Thanks for the insight. You've convinced me to take yet another look. (This reminds me of JSF which I kept looking into and then coming back to several times before really embracing it.) sean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
