Re: Build

[Marcel Ruff <ruff at swand.lake.de>]

Thanks a lot James,

another step to have the best MOM on world :-)


Marcel

James & Sue Ann Birchfield wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

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Marcel Ruff
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http://www.xmlBlaster.org