Hi all Thanks for your input on Ant. When I asked about the file list issue I was wondering if we could specify a file list that we expected to be in the war and that it would just do a double check at the end to verify we had all files... We currently have problems with make system and this can happen sometimes and is sometimes hard to debug.
Thanks everyone who replied... Donie -----Original Message----- From: Drew Sudell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 May 2002 17:53 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: [OT] Re: Using ANT - Crash course needed Donie Kelly writes: > Hi all > > Is there any good docs out there apart from the apache ones which will get > me up to speed with ant quickly. Could somebody answer the following > questions... There are pointers to a number of articles, examples, FAQs etc on Ant on the resources page for the Ant project http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/resources.html > > a) Can ant be used to do installs like copying files - editing properties > etc... Yes. The copy task will copy files or directory hierarchies. When installing from archives, I've found the unzip/untar/unjar tasks useful. The PropertyFile task works for editing properties. > b) > Can ant check that the file list has made it into the war/jar Not sure what you're asking on this. Do you mean comparing a external list of files that "should be in a jar" to what is empirically in the jar? If so, I don't see a trivial way to do it -- but that doesn't mean a non-trivial way can not be contrived. [Various schemes involving jar tvf and diff start to run thought my head.] > c) Can ant work faster than make. Make is slow for java stuff... (we > currently use make) Depends what you are doing. But for compiling Java code, yes. What most people typically do building Java via make is to fork off a javac for each file. Unfortunately that implies starting a whole new JVM (assuming a Java based compiler, ie not jikes). Ant runs the compiles inside the existing JVM, so you get a big win there. > > > Thanks > Donie > > Ps: does anybody know is it easy to convert PVCS archives to CVS? Depends how much history you want to keep. When I did that many years ago, I just exported the head of the tree and checked it in. If there is a way to export the PVCS archive to RCS files, which I seem to recall there was, then you can just copy the RCS files into CVSROOT. Actually, in the contrib directory of CVS there's a perl script called pvcs_to_rcs that looks like it will build RCS archives from PVCS archives by successive exports of each revision. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By the way, you may want to try the ant-user list for the Ant questions. It's run from the same server at Jakarta. If I recall, there was a cvs-info list for cvs. There are pointers to the Ant mailing list and archives for it in the Ant docs at http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/feedback.html A good starting point for CVS is http://www.cvshome.org/ -- Drew Sudell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.op.net/~asudell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
