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From: "Hammer, Paul" <PHammer@classroom.com>
To: 'Ant Users List' <user@ant.apache.org>
Subject: RE: ANT visions and best practices
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:28:10 -0800
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Hi Matthias,

We here provide multiple web applications to the US education =
community.
We use ant to build our products which involves compiling, packaging, =
and=20
deploying java code. This process is run nightly in an automated
fashion to our integration machines, and is also done periodically by =
hand
to our QA and production machines. =20

We have also implemented a separate ANT process to handle SQL database =
refresh=20
and update from our production machine to our integration and QA =
machines.
Again, this runs nightly and periodically.=20

Over the last few months have worked to replace much of these processes =
that
were implemented with batch files, shell scripts, and perl files, with =
ANT
XML files.  This effort has been mostly successful, however, we =
couldn't
implement all our needed functionality in ant.

Be careful using ANT.  I began developing ANT XML files thinking it =
could
be used like a programming language.  ANT is NOT a programming =
language.
For example, properties are not variables.  Once a property is set
with a value, it cannot be reset to a different value.

However, ANT does have the advantage of being platform independent. =20
We have an ant XML file that does run the same on MS Windows NT/2K as
it runs on our Linux servers.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias P. [mailto:groups.mpatzak@gmx.de]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 9:13 AM
To: user@ant.apache.org
Subject: ANT visions and best practices


Hi,

I am new to ANT but need to work with it as the responsible =
configuration
manager (Please dont ask why someone who has never worked with ANT was
appointed as configuration manager. I hope my manager knows what is =
best for his
project ;-))

Until now i started to do the tutorials, compile some sources etc.=20
What i would like to know is what wonders and miracles can be done with =
ANT?

On what ANT-implementations on your project are you really proud of?=20
Its just to get an idea and vision what can be done with ANT.

Thank you for your attention. I hope in some month i can give you back =
some
of my new gained knowledge.

Regards,
Matthias (from the lovely and sunny Munich)

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