Posts for the 'Building software' Category
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Here is a common problem with custom Ant tasks. A typical task is implemented using multiple classes, so classes that don't extend org.apache.tools.ant.Task class don't necessarily have to have a dependency on Ant APIs. For example, it is pretty easy to pass Ant properties in a hashtable instead of passing the entire project object. This [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Somebody asked me about examples for PAnt Jython wrapper. Here are some. I'll be updating this page with more examples in the future.
Following is a simple echo task. Note that pant.py has to be on your "python.path". You can set it by adding it
to your ANT_OPTS environment variable (ANT_OPTS=-Dpython.path=python_path).
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
In my previous post I blogged about my attempts to replace XML-based syntax for invoking Ant tasks using Jython scripts. But I wasn't fully satisfied with the result - I did not like that fact that I had to pass a task name as a parameter to PAnt.execTask, e.g. pant.execTask("mkdir", dir=buildDir). It just was not [...]
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
It's pretty easy to create an Ant file for a simple project. A simple Ant script typically contains ubiquitous "init", "compile", "test", "war" (or "jar), "build" targets all wired together. It's easy to change and easy to understand and the script's flow has a declarative, rule-based feel to it. The problem is, projects and [...]
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