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New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'
Hi all,
I would like to draw your attention to an open-source Ant GUI that I am developing, called 'Ant's Nest'. I'm keen for your feedback and bug reports on it, as it's being made especially for you guys! As you will see it's largely based around a drag 'n' drop interface and an XML model of Ant tasks. It can be downloaded from http://antsnest.sourceforge.net and any problems you find please send to ccdigix@users.sourceforge.net. Another feature of the program is that developers can write their own plugins, allowing in the future for maybe an easier way of creating an Ant build file? Anyway download it and let me know what you think :-p
Best Wishes,
Chris
Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'
Posted by Chris Clohosy <c....@cs.ucl.ac.uk>.
Sorry Martin, Ant's Nest only does basic operations at the moment, although
I'm not stopping anyone else writing a new 'level' to go into it.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Cooper" <ma...@apache.org>
To: "Ant Users List" <us...@ant.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'
> Does this tool not support <import> or something? When I try to open any
> of my build files, it tells me it's not a valid build file. ;-(
>
> --
> Martin Cooper
>
>
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Chris Clohosy wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to draw your attention to an open-source Ant GUI that I am
>> developing, called 'Ant's Nest'. I'm keen for your feedback and bug
>> reports on it, as it's being made especially for you guys! As you will
>> see it's largely based around a drag 'n' drop interface and an XML model
>> of Ant tasks. It can be downloaded from http://antsnest.sourceforge.net
>> and any problems you find please send to ccdigix@users.sourceforge.net.
>> Another feature of the program is that developers can write their own
>> plugins, allowing in the future for maybe an easier way of creating an
>> Ant build file? Anyway download it and let me know what you think :-p
>>
>> Best Wishes,
>>
>> Chris
>
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Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'
Posted by Martin Cooper <ma...@apache.org>.
Does this tool not support <import> or something? When I try to open any
of my build files, it tells me it's not a valid build file. ;-(
--
Martin Cooper
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Chris Clohosy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to draw your attention to an open-source Ant GUI that I am developing, called 'Ant's Nest'. I'm keen for your feedback and bug reports on it, as it's being made especially for you guys! As you will see it's largely based around a drag 'n' drop interface and an XML model of Ant tasks. It can be downloaded from http://antsnest.sourceforge.net and any problems you find please send to ccdigix@users.sourceforge.net. Another feature of the program is that developers can write their own plugins, allowing in the future for maybe an easier way of creating an Ant build file? Anyway download it and let me know what you think :-p
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Chris
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Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'
Posted by Chris Clohosy <c....@cs.ucl.ac.uk>.
Guys you were right, it wasn't the SAX. There were a combination of problems
that I've been working on all night but now it's fixed and tomorrow I'll
release the new version. There was a problem with long string concatenation
in the build file beautifier, I use a buffer class instead now. Then there
was a problem with an ID algorithm that turned out not to be linear at all
(whoops lol). Big thanks has to go to Alexey for providing me with a massive
build file and for the tips; Ant's Nest scales up pretty well now, there's
still a short delay when using large build files but it's bearable.
I'll send a message out tomorrow when the new version is up,
Chris :-p
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kavanagh" <dk...@gmail.com>
To: "Ant Users List" <us...@ant.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'
>I was just going to say that. I've used SAX parsing (even building a
> DOM tree, or JDOM tree) on files that are over 1 MB in size. It has to
> be what you are doing with the data. SAX itself won't build up stuff
> in memory. Just be carefull how you store the data you gather from
> there.
>
> David
>
>
> On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:51:20 -0800, Alexey N. Solofnenko
> <A....@mdl.com> wrote:
>> SAX parsers are created to work with big files. I think the problem is
>> with what it does during parsing.
>>
>> - Alexey.
>>
>> Chris Clohosy wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for trying it Alexey, especially on a large build file as I
>> > haven't got any to test it on. If my thinking is right, I think it
>> > choked because I'm using a SAX parser to read in the XML, and it just
>> > can't handle that big a file. But that's just an idea, it might not be
>> > that, I'll investigate.
>> >
>> > Chris
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Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'
Posted by David Kavanagh <dk...@gmail.com>.
I was just going to say that. I've used SAX parsing (even building a
DOM tree, or JDOM tree) on files that are over 1 MB in size. It has to
be what you are doing with the data. SAX itself won't build up stuff
in memory. Just be carefull how you store the data you gather from
there.
David
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:51:20 -0800, Alexey N. Solofnenko
<A....@mdl.com> wrote:
> SAX parsers are created to work with big files. I think the problem is
> with what it does during parsing.
>
> - Alexey.
>
> Chris Clohosy wrote:
>
> > Thanks for trying it Alexey, especially on a large build file as I
> > haven't got any to test it on. If my thinking is right, I think it
> > choked because I'm using a SAX parser to read in the XML, and it just
> > can't handle that big a file. But that's just an idea, it might not be
> > that, I'll investigate.
> >
> > Chris
>
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Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'
Posted by "Alexey N. Solofnenko" <A....@mdl.com>.
SAX parsers are created to work with big files. I think the problem is
with what it does during parsing.
- Alexey.
Chris Clohosy wrote:
> Thanks for trying it Alexey, especially on a large build file as I
> haven't got any to test it on. If my thinking is right, I think it
> choked because I'm using a SAX parser to read in the XML, and it just
> can't handle that big a file. But that's just an idea, it might not be
> that, I'll investigate.
>
> Chris
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Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'
Posted by Chris Clohosy <c....@cs.ucl.ac.uk>.
Thanks for trying it Alexey, especially on a large build file as I haven't
got any to test it on. If my thinking is right, I think it choked because
I'm using a SAX parser to read in the XML, and it just can't handle that big
a file. But that's just an idea, it might not be that, I'll investigate.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexey N. Solofnenko" <A....@mdl.com>
To: "Ant Users List" <us...@ant.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'
> It chocked on my 700K (mostly generated) build file (still running about
> 10 minutes at 100% CPU).
>
> - Alexey.
>
>
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Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'
Posted by "Alexey N. Solofnenko" <A....@mdl.com>.
It chocked on my 700K (mostly generated) build file (still running about
10 minutes at 100% CPU).
- Alexey.
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Re: New Ant GUI - 'Ant's Nest'
Posted by Mahen Perera <ma...@gmail.com>.
I am getting the following error when running the command "ant -f
antsnestbuild.xml"
E:\software\Ant GUI\antsnest-1.1\antsnest>ant -f antsnestbuild.xml
java.lang.InstantiationException: org.apache.tools.ant.Main
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:335)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:195)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:55)
I have both JDK/JRE 1.4 and 1.5 installed . will it be a problem..
I have ant 1.6.2
Can someone please help
Mahen
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:32:18 -0000, Chris Clohosy <c....@cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to draw your attention to an open-source Ant GUI that I am developing, called 'Ant's Nest'. I'm keen for your feedback and bug reports on it, as it's being made especially for you guys! As you will see it's largely based around a drag 'n' drop interface and an XML model of Ant tasks. It can be downloaded from http://antsnest.sourceforge.net and any problems you find please send to ccdigix@users.sourceforge.net. Another feature of the program is that developers can write their own plugins, allowing in the future for maybe an easier way of creating an Ant build file? Anyway download it and let me know what you think :-p
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Chris
>
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