On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:31:06AM +0200, Stephen McConnell wrote:
...
>
> What your describing is one of the driving factors that resulted in
> the creation of "Merlin" .. a tool used to run a component from an
> Ant build file. For example:
>
> <target name="demo">
> <load target="org.apache.time.TimeProvider" priority="DEBUG"
> disposal="false" verbose="true">
> <fileset dir="${lib}">
> <include name="*.jar"/>
> </fileset>
> </load>
> </target>
Sounds nifty.
> It basically reads a .xinfo file (same as Phoenix style
> plus some extensions to handle default configuration info and
> context declaration). The main difference between Merlin and
> Phoenix is that Merlin handles cascading configurations which
> means you can run up a component without any of the config,
> or assembly stuff. Phoenix is a lot more powerful when you
> start dealing with managing the source of service provision -
> however, Merlin is a lot easier to tie into a development
> cycle. A the moment Merlin needs to go through the Excalibur
> repackaging.
FYI, I just wrote a new doc, NEW_PROJECTS.txt, which describes this
process in painful detail.
--Jeff
...
> Cheers, Steve.
>
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