Thank you so much for the thorough response. I'm currently using Anthill-OS
for automation simply because it's so simple to use and learn. I read about
CruiseControl and Maven a while back and decided to go with Anthill.
I figured out CC but found Maven to have a much higher learning curve and
found both somewhat difficult to set up. Anthill gives allows me to use
dependecies too. However, as I mentioned at this point all my projects are
pretty much independent and unaware of each other and they each build
independently and then a final master build file kicks in, only to do the
packaging.
My main question was: Is it a better approach for the master build file to
oversee the entire build operation for every project down to packaging or
does my current approach of building separately and then the master file
only do the final packaging? Which is a better approach or industry
standard?
Thanks again.
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Personally, I managed multi-project dependencies in Ant using the
technique described at http://www.exubero.com/ant/dependencies.html
(though any of the other tools are suitable solutions, as well).
Although CruiseControl can handle multiple projects, it doesn't
necessarily understand project dependencies very well (though you can
fake it with the CC <buildstatus> config element - see
http://cruisecontrol.sf.net/main/configxml.html#buildstatus )
Cheers,
Joe
On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 05:55 -0400, nikhil wrote:
> Cruise Control is also used for this purpse and many of the people that I
> know that have used it swear by it. It invokes ant.
> Nikhil
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Antoine Levy-Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Ant Users List" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 11:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Project Build Strategy Question:
>
>
> > Hello Res,
> >
> > Ant is primarily a monoproject build tool.
> >
> > You can look at :
> >
> > - creating your own custom system to manage dependencies using ant,
> > - use Ivy [1] (referenced in the ant documentation under "External
> > Tools and Tasks" [2]
> > - decide that ant itself should not manage multiproject dependencies
> > and use Maven [3]
> > - use Gump [4] (which is a continuous integration/build tool) with a
> > model to define dependencies between projects
> >
> > AFAIK Maven is a build tool which works for both developers and build
> > managers. It has a concept to store build artifacts in a repository
> > accessible via http.
> > I have never used Maven myself directly, I wonder whether it can do
> > recursive make. AFAIK it is primarily a mono project build tool (and
> > project management tool)
> > which uses among other things ant. Maven has a concept of project
> > descriptor.
> >
> > You can even combine gump and maven. You can use gump as a tool to
build
> > your complete stack of projects, and make gump invoke maven.
> >
> > Gump and ant can also be combined.
> >
> > In anycase, I would encourage you to use an existing framework to
> > describe what are the artifacts of your projects and what do they
depend
> > upon.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Antoine
> >
> > [1] http://ivy.jayasoft.org/
> >
> > [2] http://ant.apache.org/external.html
> >
> > [3] http://maven.apache.org/
> >
> > [4] http://gump.apache.org/
> >
> > Res Pons wrote:
> > > I have about 9-10 different projects automated under Anthill OS
> > > nightly. I set up a property sheet for each project where I call
> > > speicific targets out their respective build.xml to generate war
> > > files, etc. I have not declared any project dependencies as they're
> > > not needed at this point -- only two projects depend on each other
and
> > > I fake it by building them in time order. Then a master build.xml
> > > file kicks in as the last build of the night, packages the war and
> > > necessary jar files, checks in the files which have been modified,
and
> > > tags all the projects in the repository by committing the local
> > > working folders under Anthill into Subversion and finally it deploys
> > > the war files to the servers for QA testing, etc.
> > >
> > > Is this a good strategy? Any suggestions or feeback? Thanks.
> > >
> >
> >
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