"solution files" - if you're building .NET, go look at NAnt instead of Ant. The difference is similar to that of a Volkswagon Beetle vs. Rolls Royce...
________________________________ From: "Ina, Antoine" <antoine....@philips.com> To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:58:37 AM Subject: RE: Doing Ant builds I am posing a general question about Ant vs Make vs Batch: 1- What is advantage of Ant script over regular Batch script that calls up the solution files for all the projects in your system tree of projects(for Windows platform) 2- How does Ant handle up and down project dependencies Regards, Antoine -----Original Message----- From: Ashley Williams [mailto:ashpub...@mac.com] Sent: 2009 Jun 11 12:52 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Replacing build.xml with Build.java - Doing Ant builds directlyfrom Java Hi Dean, I use this technique frequently as in this example lifted straight from my code, see below. All you have to remember is that a top level project owns many targets which in turn own many tasks, so just make sure you set up the parent/child references in both directions. // create the ant parent project Project project = new Project(); project.setName("project"); project.init(); // create the child target Target target = new Target(); target.setName("target"); project.addTarget(target); project.addBuildListener(new Log4jListener()); // create the child untar task with gzip compression Untar untar = new Untar(); untar.setTaskName("untar"); untar.setSrc(artifactFile); untar.setDest(new File(".")); Untar.UntarCompressionMethod method = new Untar.UntarCompressionMethod(); method.setValue("gzip"); untar.setCompression(method); untar.setProject(project); untar.setOwningTarget(target); target.addTask(untar); project.execute(); I am also the architect of ProtoJ over at google code http://code.google.com/p/protoj/ which builds on ant and other dependencies to control a project from java rather than script. - Ashley On 11 Jun 2009, at 16:28, Dean Schulze wrote: > > The Ant documentation has a section titled "Using Ant Tasks Outside > of Ant" which gives a teaser for how to use the Ant libraries from > Java > code. In theory it seems simple enough to replace build.xml with > Build.java. The Ant documentation hints at some undocumented > dependencies that I'll have to discover (undocumented from the point > of > view of using Ant from within Java). > Using Java instead of xml to do an Ant build seems so obvious I > wonder why there hasn't been a parallel track over the years for > Build.java as well as build.xml. > I asked this same question over at stackoverflow.com: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/972574/replacing-build-xml-with-build-java-using-java-and-the-ant-libraries-as-a-build > The answers indicate that it isn't difficult to do, but that it is > necessary to "spoof" the project and target objects. > While it all looks encouraging I haven't seen any actual examples of > how to deal with the undocumented issues mentioned. Has anyone > documented how to do Ant builds from Java? > Thanks. > Dean > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org The information contained in this message may be confidential and legally protected under applicable law. The message is intended solely for the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, forwarding, dissemination, or reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by return e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
