When did this turn into bash ant day? Learn to use your tools, people. Writing your own ant task is trivial, as is hooking it up 'live' (i.e. first building it, then using it, all in one ant invocation). The whole point of ant has always been that you should NOT be programming in it. Personally I strongly believe any sufficiently complicated build will ALWAYS end up requiring programming, which means both ant and maven are probably misguided (if anything ant moreso because creating a list of sequential ant tasks such as 'mkdir' and 'javac' feels rather eerily similar to programming). Both of those tools do however allow you to write plugins. I strongly suggest you get to grips with that.
You don't even have to write java code in case you feel like that's a really bad idea for some reason; you can write macros, that already helps a lot. In regards to JSP/Velocity to mix config XML and source: Oh hell no. That's a horrible idea. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
