RE: Build

["James & Sue Ann Birchfield" <jsrbirch at home.com>]

All,
	I have set up xmlBLaster to use Ant
as it's build system(don't worry, the Makefiles
are still there too...:) ).

Please see the build.xml file for more details.  I have
successfully built vergin checkouts on both my Linux
and my Windows box using ant.  If you run into any
trouble, feel free to send me an email.

NOTE:  On hiccup exists when trying to build
on a windows box.  Building the java documentation
doesn't work at the moment.  Everything else does.
I am looking into it.

To get a good feel for what ant can really do,
check out http://jakarta.apache.org/ant

It can do a *LOT* more than what we need it to do
for xmlBlaster.

=====================================
James Birchfield
Chief Technology Officer
jmbirchfield at proteus-technologies.com
http://www.proteus-technologies.com
=====================================

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xmlblaster-devel at xmlBlaster.org
[mailto:owner-xmlblaster-devel at xmlBlaster.org]On Behalf Of James & Sue
Ann Birchfield
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 7:39 AM
To: Marcel Ruff; xmlBlaster Developer
Subject: RE: Build


Ant is very powerful, and very extensible.  The only the Ant can't
do out of the box right now for the build is the idl2java.

It does, however, allow custom tasks to be defined.  I will look
into setting up a build enviornment using Ant, and get back to
the list.

=====================================
James Birchfield
Chief Technology Officer
jmbirchfield at proteus-technologies.com
http://www.proteus-technologies.com
=====================================

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xmlblaster-devel at xmlBlaster.org
[mailto:owner-xmlblaster-devel at xmlBlaster.org]On Behalf Of Marcel Ruff
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 3:31 AM
To: xmlBlaster Developer
Subject: Re: Build


James Birchfield wrote:
> 
> Have you ever heard of ant?  It is the build tool for almost all of the
> ASF
> projects now.  It is extremely powerful for building Java-based
> projects.
Yes we need some cross platform support.
Have you experiences with ant?

Can we use jikes and shell scripts with ant?

Do you believe we should use ant?

thanks, Marcel


> 
> Check out this page, for a better feel for what it can do:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html
> 
> Just a thought.....
> 


-- 
Marcel Ruff
ruff at swand.lake.de
http://www.lake.de/home/lake/swand/
http://www.xmlBlaster.org