I think there are two separate problems here: 1) I do not think that we can ask ANT to support every tool ever created in the face of the earth that deals with a manufacturer specific part of some generic process. Some examples of it are: Java compilers, EJB deployment, Source control systems, etc. It is becomming more and more a nightmare as each product has its own life cycle and ANT needs to keep things backwards compatible (even when the products do not). It would be much more simple to maintain if each one of the tools maintainied its own tools ans ship the correct version with the correct version of the product.
2) In order for this to work ANT has to provide a generic API and a way to dynamically call their plug-ins from within our generic tasks: <javac>, <ejb-jar>, etc. We need a way to define a generic way to specify which specific plug-in to use (either by magic property, or somehing else) and a way to indicate that certain <elements> of the generic task must be delegated to the specific implementation supplied with the product. Today, the only thing we have is <task> which is too coarse. We need a finer granularity. Any ideas on how to acheive this? Jose Alberto --- Cyrille Morvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 14:53 27/12/2001 +1100, you wrote: > > > I agree that a jonas task would be a worthy > > > addition to Ant -or > > > the JOnAS codebase. > > > >Despite the fact that Ant has jBoss support, the > >latter seems more reasonable to me. > > > >Why should Jonas support their own ant tasks? > > Because Ant support JBoss, IPlanet, WebSphere, > WebLogic and Borland > Application Server. > And the ejb-jar documentation says > " Over time we expect further optional tasks to > support additional EJB > Servers. " > > See more on > http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/OptionalTasks/ejb.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
