Re: Archetype for Ant

2012-04-22 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
se Engineering > > [image: WebSphere Mosiac] > [image: WebSphere Brandmark] > > > > Mansour Al Akeel wrote on 04/22/2012 03:38:55 > PM: > > > From: Mansour Al Akeel > > To: Ant Developers List > > Date: 04/22/2012 03:40 PM > > Subject: Archetype for Ant

Archetype for Ant

2012-04-22 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello all, Currently, when starting a project we copy/paste from previous ant build files, and change as we go. Other build system offer a skeleton to start a project of some nature quickly. I decided to create a prototype project for ant archetype, to evaluate the idea and see if there is potentia

Re: Tasks to be contributed

2012-03-09 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Engineering > > [image: WebSphere Mosiac] > [image: WebSphere Brandmark] > > > > Mansour Al Akeel wrote on 03/09/2012 04:15:40 > PM: > > > From: Mansour Al Akeel > > To: Ant Developers List > > Date: 03/09/2012 04:17 PM > > Subject: Re: Tasks to

Re: Tasks to be contributed

2012-03-09 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
eat for me. I may have to rewrite to use resource and to make it consistent with the rest of the task. So my question, do other users think this can be useful for the community ? On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2012-03-09, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > >>

Re: import remote file

2012-03-08 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
complexity involved to properly support a remote resource than just > chunking it up on a some random web server. > > > Jeffrey E. (Jeff) Care > *ca...@us.ibm.com* > IBM WebSphere

Re: import remote file

2012-03-08 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Jeffery, thank you. I will try it soon. Can you please let me know what makes you think it's terrible idea ? On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Jeffrey E Care wrote: > Mansour Al Akeel wrote on 03/08/2012 02:53:55 > PM: > >> I am looking for a functionality to allow me to

import remote file

2012-03-08 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello all, I am looking for a functionality to allow me to import remote files that contains tasks to be used in multiple projects. Something like: http://path/to/reusable/file.xml"; /> I know I can include this in an antlib inside a jar, ant download it through ivy, but importing a remote file,

Re: Reasons why Java 7 got me excited about Ant 2

2012-02-26 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Java is widely used and accepted. Scala is functional and it could be more suitable for a build system, however, I don't see enough reasons for the core to be written with scala or any other language. I think it's better to keep it in java, and allow the addition of plugins written in other languag

Re: Ant 2 design (was Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0?)

2012-02-18 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
tomating parallelism, if you know what resources are needed and in > which state, and you know which ProjectComponents will get the resources > into that state for you, then it is possible for an application to determine > which ones can run in parallel rather than sequentially. Obviously there

Re: Ant 2 design (was Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0?)

2012-02-18 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
nd distribution to a fault tolerant cluster are exactly the > kinds of features that would allow many users that I know of to justify > allocating resources to rewrite major build scripts. > > > On 2/18/2012 11:26 AM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: >> >> Keeping it simple, is a great id

Re: Ant 2 design (was Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0?)

2012-02-18 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Keeping it simple, is a great idea. I am not sure if introducing parallelism is a good idea or if it's easy to implement and maintain. If it is design is modular, I think all these can be added as plugins. Performance ??!! On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Bruce Atherton wrote: > This too I find

Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0? was Re: Java NIO support

2012-02-16 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
2012/2/16 Nicolas Lalevée > > > I cannot talk about Gradle because I never really understand the real > motive apart from the apparent cool groovy language features. > > On the other hand, Easyant is about using Ant on steroïds. The idea is > basically sharing Ant build scripts. > Each time I hav

Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0? was Re: Java NIO support

2012-02-15 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Another thing I don't understand about the current Ant. Why there are derivatives from ant and they are gaining popularity ? I am talking about gradle and easyant. Gradle adds mutli project support, and easyant sets some conventions (I didn't use it). I am wondering what makes the author go with a

Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0? was Re: Java NIO support

2012-02-13 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
happen. Assuming anything happens. > > > On 2/13/2012 12:02 PM, Jeffrey E Care wrote: > >> Mansour Al Akeel wrote on 02/13/2012 >> 01:57:56 PM: >> >> > From: Mansour Al Akeel >> > To: Ant Developers List >> > Cc: Stefan Bodewig >> >

Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0? was Re: Java NIO support

2012-02-13 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
in these ideas. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Jeffrey E Care wrote: > Mansour Al Akeel wrote on 02/13/2012 01:57:56 > PM: > > > From: Mansour Al Akeel > > To: Ant Developers List > > Cc: Stefan Bodewig > > Date: 02/13/2012 01:58 PM > > Sub

Re: NIO 2.0 == Ant 2.0? was Re: Java NIO support

2012-02-13 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
up the > release and to redesign Ant to reflect all the lessons learned about how to > build software in the last 10 years. Or it could be I'm the only one who > read through the NIO 2.0 features and instantly thought about rewriting Ant. > > What do you guys think about it? > &

Java NIO support

2012-02-05 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello all, I have been looking and developing some custom task for ant, for the last few days. I noticed that ant tasks don't use java.io directly. I am assuming this is due to the way java.io.File behave on different platforms, and the support for patterns etc. However, now with java 7, we h