My first impression of ant: Ok, the syntax is a little funky, and I can't re-use my knowledge of command line options to tools w/o doing an exec... I need to learn the "ant" parameters for all the different tasks now. I can look at a build.xml and tweak/fix it because there isn't too much "magic" involved... it's fairly straight forward do-this then do-that, specified in portable XML.
My first impression of maven: Pretty websites as part of the build system - cool! And it's *great* for starting a new project... unit tests automatically run, website is built, automatic packaging, jar/war build, everything you need! But, it all seems like magic to me... if I want to do something different, even a minor little change, I don't know where to start. If I want to add an additional compile flag, where does that go??? I have no idea. To change the behavior (like using Java5 source) I need to google and find the magic incantation. Maybe the benefits of maven pay off over the long run, but as one casual/newbie user, it just seemed like too much of a black box that I can't quickly hack to get it to do what I want. -Yonik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
