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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:10:31 -0600
From: Andrew Goktepe <andrewgoktepe@gmail.com>
To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Ant-based installers
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Thanks for the suggestions! I'm pretty sure both AntInstaller and AntForms
could provide what I'm looking for.

-Andrew


On 2/2/06, Rebhan, Gilbert <Gilbert.Rebhan@huk-coburg.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> i your script is ready to use and all you want
> to achieve is to collect the properties via gui
> have a look @ AntForms.
>
> give it a shot =3D
>
> http://antforms.sourceforge.net/
>
>
> Gilbert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Goktepe [mailto:andrewgoktepe@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 2:03 PM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: Re: Ant-based installers
>
> >have a gui for end users that creates a script for deploying to the
> local
> box?
> No. It doesn't have to create a script - I already have one.
>
> >make it easy for someone who doesn't know ant to deploy to many
> systems?
> Yes. The Ant script does all of the real work, but it's exposure to the
> user
> should be minimal.
>
> Our applications have many properties and xml files within the ear file
> and
> elsewhere that need to be configured for the particular environment
> being
> used. I already have an Ant script that will configure these files and
> deploy the application to any of several application servers, but I want
> a
> GUI front-end to collect all of the settings from the user before
> running
> the script.
>
> -Andrew
>
> On 2/2/06, Steve Loughran <stevel@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > Andrew Goktepe wrote:
> > > I am looking for an ant-based GUI installer to configure and deploy
> our
> > J2EE
> > > applications. I have tried Antigen and AntInstaller. I really like
> > > AntInstaller, especially its configuration file format and the way
> it
> > saves
> > > all of the user-provided values for repeat runs of the Ant script.
> Is
> > anyone
> > > using any others besides these two? Although I can't use anything
> that
> > is
> > > licensed under the GPL, I'd still like to know about any other
> choices
> > that
> > > are out there.
> >
> > What is it you are trying to do?
> >
> > -have a gui for end users that creates a script for deploying to the
> > local box?
> > -make it easy for someone who doesnt know ant to deploy to many
> systems?
> >
> >
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