>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/24/02 10:12AM >>> >a) Can ant be used to do installs like copying files... Yes. Look at the Copy task: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/CoreTasks/copy.html >...editing properties etc. Not sure what you want to do here...
>b) Can ant check that the file list has made it into the war/jar Yes. Look at the Available task: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/CoreTasks/available.html >c) Can ant work faster than make. Probably, our build (win2k) was taking several minutes, when we changed to ant it dropped to seconds. Larry
