That page needs to be updated, as Struts 2 doesn't use Ant anymore for
the build. We have moved to Maven 2.
Thanks for the Ant tip, though :)
Don
Xavier Hanin wrote:
Hi All,
I'm not all involved in struts2, but while browsing the web I've
noticed your page explaining how to skip ivy dependency resolution in
an ant build. Using -Dskip.ivy=true is good, we use a slightly easier
way to do that in our builds. We define a what I call a flag target
(it does nothing except setting a flag), in this case "noivy" for
instance, which simply sets the property. The difference is only
cosmetic, you type "ant noivy compile" for instance, instead of "ant
-Dskip.ivy=true compile". The advantage for the user is that it is
slightly easier to remember, and it's self documenting, adding a
description on the target you can get the standard "ant -p" help about
it. The only problem is when you want to call the default target (that
is, do not specify the target when calling ant), you still have to use
-D, or define a "default" target which depends on your real default
target (so that users don't have to remember which is the default
target).
I don't know what you think, throw this away if you don't like the
idea, but usually developers I meet prefer this way to deal with
disabling/enabling features in an ant build. And the flag target
doesn't prevent the use of -D, so everybody's usually happy with that.
My 2 c.
-- Xavier Hanin
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