Yeah, I think we did this once before. It was actually what I had in
mind, I don't think Maven is right for James, but that doesn't make it
a Bad Thing, we use it very sucessfully at work. :-)

d.

On 19/09/05, Siegfried Goeschl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I try to stay clear from advocating Maven but you can also use ANT to
> download JARs from a remote repository ... :-)
> 
> check out
> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/ws-xmlrpc/build.xml?rev=1.33
> and have a closer look at "copy-deps" target
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Siegfried Goeschl
> 
> Danny Angus wrote:
> 
> >On 19/09/05, Ahmed Mohombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>>We could use maven, if we wanted to.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Maybe this will convince you not to do it :) :
> >>http://www.jroller.com/page/fate/?anchor=maven_refresher_course
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Sorry mate, unsubstantiated criticisms directed at the developers from
> >a guy who has to vent bile by his own definition don't really compete
> >with experience.
> >
> >People who don't like Maven generally don't like it because they can't
> >be bothered to use it, don't work well in a structured enviroment, and
> >can't stand to have their failings highlighted by a machine.
> >
> >Maven may not be pretty, but it works. It helps to manage
> >dependancies, documentation, and quality standards, and can save a
> >whole load of time and effort being wasted doing things by hand.
> >
> >I guess you'd rather write your own variation of an ant build.xml
> >differently for every project, manage dependancies in hand written
> >documentation and store your jars in cvs just in case you want to do
> >something "special".
> >In my experience the special thing becomes the weakness in your project.
> >
> >d.
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