I have written a task for Ant to check out files from a StarTeam server and am interested in donating to Apache. Here is the Javadoc overview of the program:
> Checks out files from a specific StarTeam server, project, view, and folder. > > This program logs in to a StarTeam server and opens up the specified project > and view. Then, it searches through that view for the given folder (or, if > you prefer, it uses the > root folder). Beginning with that folder and optionally continuing > recursivesly, AntStarTeamCheckOut compares each file with your include and > exclude filters and checks it > out only if appropriate. > > Checked out files go to a directory you specify under the subfolder named for > the default StarTeam path to the view. That is, if you entered > /home/cpovirk/work as the target > folder, your project was named "OurProject," the given view was named > "TestView," and that view is stored by default at "C:\projects\Test," your > files would be checked out > to /home/cpovirk/work/Test." I avoided using the project name in the path > because you may want to keep several versions of the same project on your > computer, and I didn't > want to use the view name, as there may be many "Test" or "Version 1.0" > views, for example. This system's success, of course, depends on what you set > the default path to > in StarTeam. > > You can set AntStarTeamCheckOut to verbose or quiet mode. Also, it has a > safeguard against overwriting the files on your computer: If the target > directory you specify > already exists, the program will throw a BuildException. To override the > exception, set force to true. > -Chris Povirk
