Brian Ewins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 25/11/2002 11:03:32 PM: > Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > > > One of the things I find most frustrating is dealing with "IDE > > Developers", meaning those "developers" who cut their teeth on > > Microsoft tools and never learned how to even set their PATH let alone
> > their classpath. And why the heck should they? Any decent software worth it's salt doesn't make the user touch their classpath :) > Actually using Ant (or Maven) from an IDE is easy enough. The tricky bit > is getting the IDE to see the same classpath that the build script uses, > for code completion and the like. I noticed the Maven to Eclipse > integration for example tries to work by allowing you to generate a file > containing the classpath - seems like a decent approach; if all IDEs > supported something like this - and Ant scripts were written to support > it - life would be easy. Have you seen the Maven eclipse integration that adds all the maven goals into the IDE and runs them background, rather than modally? -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://www.freeroller.net/page/dion/Weblog Work: http://www.multitask.com.au -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>