Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 84867 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2000 08:17:22 -0000 Received: from mercury.sun.com (192.9.25.1) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 18 Jun 2000 08:17:22 -0000 Received: from shorter.eng.sun.com ([129.144.123.35]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA03287 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:17:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.157.164.14] (muc-rem-4.Germany.Sun.COM [129.157.164.14]) by shorter.eng.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v1.7) with ESMTP id BAA18762 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:17:22 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:15:01 -0700 Subject: Re: Composing a system out of projects From: James Duncan Davidson To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <85256900.004B6D13.00@d54mta04.raleigh.ibm.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N on 6/16/00 6:43 AM, rubys@us.ibm.com at rubys@us.ibm.com wrote: > I would like to see us get to the point where a user can design their > own custom system. Simple example: building a system consisting of > JetSpeed plus Cocoon. Users should be able to specify this using either > the command line or a system.xml file. This system.xml would reference > projects, and the build system (presumably based on Ant) would order the > building of projects much in the same way that the current Ant orders > the execution of targets. Better yet -- a web page where a servlet handled the request, went off and built everything up, then streamed the result back to the user. .duncan