Look into AnthillPro or AnthillOS
pkeane wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a web-based front end for Ant builds? I manage a > large application with numerous batch jobs as part of the workflow. I > would like end users to be able to either schedule or initiate batch > jobs by way of a web interface. Security is something of an issue, but > something like http basic auth would be fine, as tasks are generally > idempotent and unintentional initiation would be OK. > > I have looked at CruiseControl and LuntBuild (more than I need) and Ant > Pretty Build (IE only and thus less than I need). My current plan is > to rewrite Ant Pretty Build (I esp. like the fact that it it simply an > xslt that leverages client-side javascript). > > My plan is to build a db-based message/queueing system for job > scheduling that exposes a rest service interface. I'll use ajax > techniques to allow the client-side javascript to schedule jobs that a > cronjob will run on the server. Thus jobs can run under cron's > permissions and I needn't allow apache privileges to run such tasks, > some/many of which do things like write to the filesystem. > > Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated. I am keen on having the ant > build.xml docs loosely coupled from the messaging system such that they > will run just fine from command line ant and will be web-ified simply by > dropping them in a particular place on the filesystem with a link to the > xslt (a la Ant Pretty Build) and it'll all just work. > > Of course if such a thing or something similar exists, it'll save me > much coding.... > > peter keane > > p.s the application is written in PHP and much of the batch scripting > has been written in Perl. I am finding Ant's declaritive syntax and > encapsulated task more practical for managing the many (100+) > scripting/backend processing tasks. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/web-based-ant-front-end--tf4136395.html#a11997177 Sent from the Ant - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
