On Dec 22, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Haug Bürger wrote:
Since I'm not happy with either Ant nor Maven I was looking for
alternatives.
I tried with Gradle 0.5. I started with a simple task, create a
simple web service
client with the integrated JAX-WS of JDK 6.
To make it short, I failed. I'm used to press Ctrl-Space and get the
attributes
of an object. I didn't expect that for a 0.5 release
Gradle is not shipped with an IDE ;)
but I do expect an API
documentation.
I found a code snippet on the net:
ant {
taskdef(name: 'wsimport',
classname: 'com.sun.tools.ws.ant.WsImport'),
classpath: dependencies.antpath('lib')
}
I look at the Gradle doc and found:
groovy.util.AntBuilder ant(groovy.lang.Closure configureClosure)
Executes the given closure against the AntBuilder for this project.
You can use this in your build file to execute ant tasks.
You can call this method in your build file using ant followed by a
code block.
Parameters: configureClosure - The closure to execute against the
AntBuilder. The closure receives no paramters. Wow, that solved all
my questions! Just joking. There was at least a hint to something
called AntBuilder. Searching Gradle API for AntBuilder, not found.
Might be some Groovy thing, found a groovy.util.AntBuilder. But
there is no taskdef, no classname, no classpath in the poor
documentation.
Those details might be not necessary I think, as long as the main
principle is made clear: The AntBuilder can be used exactly the same
way as Ant, if a simple notation transformation is applied.
This might be sufficient for a Groovy professional but not for me. I
could not find out what happens here.
I agree that Gradle should have a chapter on how to use Ant from Gradle.
How do I read the documentation?
Your problem obviously is not about 'how to read' but about what is
missing. We spend quite a bit of time on our documentation. 80 pages
means a lot of work. But there is a lot of potential for improvement
regarding to content and structuring.
Would you mind filing a Jira on this?
- Hans
--
Hans Dockter
Gradle Project lead
http://www.gradle.org
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