Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app

2007-11-28 Thread Rob Seegel
Steve Loughran wrote: The ant tasks for maven are very similar, but I have found them to be -at the time I was looking at them for my book - to be of a fairly low quality. The authors werent heavy Ant users -it was the maven team after all- and were written with no tests, no reentrancy, and f

Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Loughran
Dimitris Mouchritsas wrote: Thank you everyone. You've given me a lot of food for thought. From everyone's writings, if I understand correctly, the ant tasks for maven is nearly the same as ant+ivy, right? I suppose I will start looking into integrating ivy into a small example project and see wh

Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app

2007-11-28 Thread Dimitris Mouchritsas
> > > > > Every module can be published to a repository. Every module can pick > up > > > its dependencies from this repository and if > > > required you can write a master build that build the submodules in the > > > right order. > > > >

Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app

2007-11-27 Thread Joe Schmetzer
> > > > Gilles > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Joe Schmetzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: mardi 27 novembre 2007 16:50 > > > To: Ant Users List > > > Subject: Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app >

Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app

2007-11-27 Thread Prashant Reddy
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 15:50 +, Joe Schmetzer wrote: > Here's the technique I use in these situations: > > http://www.exubero.com/ant/dependencies.html Another modification to the same technique would be to import predefined "macrodef"s from a common-build script. This way the build file impor

Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app

2007-11-27 Thread Rob Seegel
Dimitris Mouchritsas wrote: Are there any best practices that you know of? I'm unsure if there is one set of practices that work well in all circumstances, but I'd be happy to share a few ideas that I put into place for our in-house build system which is used by 3-4 different projects, one

Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app

2007-11-27 Thread Steve Loughran
Dimitris Mouchritsas wrote: I guess I need to start reading on Ivy then... While playing around with Joe's solution I managed to put ant in an infinite loop. My worst fear is that I won't be able to persuade my manager to start using Ivy. Well, I could point you to Ant in Action as a book tha

Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app

2007-11-27 Thread Dimitris Mouchritsas
I guess I need to start reading on Ivy then... While playing around with Joe's solution I managed to put ant in an infinite loop. My worst fear is that I won't be able to persuade my manager to start using Ivy. Currently we do our build in a horrendous and huge, over 1500 line, build file. On Nov

Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app

2007-11-27 Thread Steve Loughran
Dimitris Mouchritsas wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to figure out what's the best way to handle a J2EE project with different modules. I'm thinking to create a sub project structure a bit like Maven but have ant build files. I can handle each project separately easily. My problem is interconnecting th

Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app

2007-11-27 Thread Dimitris Mouchritsas
re 2007 16:50 > > To: Ant Users List > > Subject: Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app > > > > Here's the technique I use in these situations: > > > > http://www.exubero.com/ant/dependencies.html > > > > Cheers, > > Joe > > > &

RE: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app

2007-11-27 Thread Gilles Scokart
m: Joe Schmetzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: mardi 27 novembre 2007 16:50 > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app > > Here's the technique I use in these situations: > > http://www.exubero.com/ant/dependencies.html > > Cheers, >

Re: Handling multiple subproject in J2EE app

2007-11-27 Thread Joe Schmetzer
Here's the technique I use in these situations: http://www.exubero.com/ant/dependencies.html Cheers, Joe On Tue, November 27, 2007 3:23 pm, Dimitris Mouchritsas wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to figure out what's the best way to handle a J2EE > project with different modules. > I'm thinking to crea