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Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 09:22:46 -0700
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This was asked a few weeks ago on this list, you can look back in the 
archives to see the full thread, but basically, the major drawback is 
that Ant would be required to already be installed.

Dale


Zhu He wrote:

>Hi,
>I mainly use ANT as build tools (to replace make).  My question is whether
>there are people using it as cross-platform "startup" script?
>I don't see many people doing it.
>
>I saw there is <java> task in the core task manual.  Can we use ANT to write
>cross-platform startup scripts for java applications?
>pros and cons?
>
>thanks.
>
>Zhu
>
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