On 2011-11-16, at 2:26 PM, Hugi Thordarson wrote: > Aloha over there in Bhutranio! > >> There's TWO WebObjects developers on Iceland?! > > There are more. "Atli Páll" is the pseudonym our 2000+ strong Icelandic > iTunes Store slave labor camp posts under.
Every person in Iceland works on iTunes?!!? :-P >> Are you real, or just the corporeal manifestation of the second, blurry Hugi > > I'm not blurry, I'm big boned. After two beers, everything is burry to David. >> Ant is pretty simple. Mostly I don't even think about the Ant portion of my >> WO projects other than to tell Hudson that it has to issue an Ant command to >> build the project. > > Before you can even think about building WO projects using Ant you have to at > least have woproject.jar in your Ant plugin classpath. And then, the only > reason you don't think much about Ant is that Someone Else wrote a >200 line > Ant script for you (that you are required to copy verbatim for each and every > WO project you create. How's that for reusability). As opposed to copying and editing a pom.xml? >> How is Maven more simple than that? It always seems like Maven becomes an >> active part of your project as opposed to being a background thing. > > Well, the whole "background thing" during development, that makes WO > development great has nothing to do with Ant. That's enabled by WOLips, > Eclipse, and a lot of work from great people. Truth. > The initial setup of a Maven environment for WO development may take an hour > or two—that's because WO is proprietary and thus requires some installation. > But once your environment is properly set up, Maven works great. I started > out the easy way—just added a "pom.xml" to my standard frameworks alongside > the "build.xml"-files (like Project Wonder does). But eventually, you'll want > to use all the amazing features Maven has to offer. Like having to edit each pom when you make a new non-SNAPSHOT version? > > And it's so much simpler than the 200+ lines of procedural code every single > simple little WO application requires to even build with Ant. But you don't have to mess with that. Chuck -- Chuck Hill Senior Consultant / VP Development Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems. http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
