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From: "Jim Jackl-Mochel" <jmochel@foliage.com>
To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Competition to Ant
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:02:23 -0400
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Hmm. Sorry if I stepped on toes. Let me see if I can qualify it a bit.

I have not used jmake. I took someone elses word on its large project 
suitability. 

I have used JMK and enjoyed it. It is clean and fast. 
I preferred the makefle syntax to that of ANT. 
But many parts of my previous project (a large hierarchically 
organized J2EE project) required a great deal of handwritten 
work to make everything come together. Especially in staging deployable 
J2EE components (WARs, EARs, and EJB Jars). Most of the functionality 
I needed was available out of the box from ANT.

I am still looking for the ultimate build tool for large projects 
but right now ANT is closer to it out of the box for me than JMK

Jim JM


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Tilly [mailto:JTilly@hoteltools.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:33 AM
> To: 'ant-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> Subject: RE: Competition to Ant
> 
> 
> heh.  I think Peter V. would disagree with that "suitable for large
> projects" statement....as would I.
> 
> MrT
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Jackl-Mochel [mailto:jmochel@foliage.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:33 AM
> > To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: Competition to Ant
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I don't know if they are truly competition but there are jmk 
> > and jmake.
> > Both are small and clean but don't have ANT's suitability for large
> > projects.
> > 
> > 
> > Jim JM
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Shaikh, Mehmood [mailto:Mehmood.Shaikh@ccra-adrc.gc.ca]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:36 AM
> > > To: 'ant-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> > > Subject: Competition to Ant
> > >
> > >
> > > Is anyone aware of any competition to Ant as a build tool?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Mehmood
> >