Hmmm, I'd tend to disagree.  In my 'opinion' gradle is not as cozy with ant as 
it could be.  It is supported as a matter of course but the gradle philosophy 
seems to be reinvent.



On Aug 3, 2011, at 8:04 AM, jstuyts <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Luke Stephens wrote:
>> 
>> So I apologize if I didn't make myself clear... I AM NOT wanting to use
>> ANT! I appreciate the replies with ant based suggestions, but I am trying
>> to avoid using it. Unless what you are all telling me is you can't do
>> this??
>> 
> 
> I am sure it is possible, but I have not set up classpaths enough to help
> here.
> 
> 
> Luke Stephens wrote:
>> 
>> I am trying to do this in gradle/groovy directly against the hibernate
>> jar, and directly against the api.
>> 
> 
> I believe the philosophy of Gradle is to reuse existing Ant tasks as much as
> possible to prevent having to rewrite all logic in Gradle/Groovy. That could
> be the reason why the focus in most examples is on using Ant tasks in build
> scripts.
> 
> If you want to use the schema generation class directly, you probably can,
> but I believe the preferred solution is to reuse the Ant task. Using Ant
> from Gradle is not a workaround for Gradle limitations, but an essential
> feature that allows reuse of many existing Ant tasks. Gradle provides the
> framework to use these Ant tasks more flexibly than Ant can.
> 
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