Generic info on Ant

[Jesper Jørgensen <je...@caput.com>]

Sorry about sending this to tomcat-dev, but this is the only place that
I have heard about Ant.

I am pretty new to the list and I have just downloaded the source
repositories. I noticed Ant being used as a build tool for the tomcat
project. Can anybody point med to resource on Ant (discussion groups
etc.) or to the author/maintainer ? I am considering using it as build
tool for our software products. Is Ant mature enough for that ? Is it
general enough ? What are the future plans for Ant ?

Regards,
Jesper Jorgensen, CAPUT
http://www.caput.com

Hello

["Stefan Marx (maillist)" <le...@gmx.de>]

Hi all,

I'm new to this List and to tomcat but I like it very much.

Is there any list with open Parts or Problems available because I plan to
contribute to tomcat and the whole jakarta Project.

Some words from my cv.

I'm a 25 Years old professional Java-Programmer and System-Architect for
CSC. I'm familar with Java since 3 Years and with Servlets and JSP since 1
year.

My English isn't very good but my Java is :-))

I'll able to take some Architecture Parts or some designing, I'm available
for porting and debugging also. I not have the resources to do
Performance-Analyses.

So please contact me if there is any way how I can contribute to the
project.

Bye Stephan

Re: Generic info on Ant

[Stefano Mazzocchi <st...@apache.org>]

Jesper Jørgensen wrote:
> 
> Sorry about sending this to tomcat-dev, but this is the only place that
> I have heard about Ant.

:) well, Ant is slowly going everywhere. All apache-java projects are
now influenced by Ant, somehow.
 
> I am pretty new to the list and I have just downloaded the source
> repositories. I noticed Ant being used as a build tool for the tomcat
> project. Can anybody point med to resource on Ant (discussion groups
> etc.) or to the author/maintainer ? 

The original author is James Davidson, but a bunch of us added tasks and
features (Jon, Costin, myself)

This list is where things are discussed, but I would like Ant to be
raised as a full-blown project with mail list, web site, separate
distribution, etc... What do you guys think?

> I am considering using it as build
> tool for our software products. Is Ant mature enough for that ? 

I use it for Cocoon/Xerces/Xalan, Costin uses it for all Tomcat stuff,
Jon uses it for Turbine and I bet all his java projects :)

> Is it general enough ? 

Yes, we try to make it completely abstract from any particual
software/platform, but 

> What are the future plans for Ant ?

Throw make/shell-scripts down the drain for java stuff :) Ant will do it
all for you.

-- 
Stefano Mazzocchi      One must still have chaos in oneself to be
                          able to give birth to a dancing star.
<st...@apache.org>                             Friedrich Nietzsche

Re: Generic info on Ant

[James Duncan Davidson <ja...@eng.sun.com>]

> I am pretty new to the list and I have just downloaded the source
> repositories. I noticed Ant being used as a build tool for the tomcat
> project. Can anybody point med to resource on Ant (discussion groups
> etc.) or to the author/maintainer ? I am considering using it as build
> tool for our software products. Is Ant mature enough for that ? Is it
> general enough ? What are the future plans for Ant ?

I'm the original author of ant. Now, it's becomming very much a team
authored project. :) Yes, ant is mature enough to be used on other projects.
It might not have the exact functionality that you need, but it is based on
an easy to implement set of interfaces.

The code is the documentation right now...

.duncan