Neeme:
Is Ant the right tool for your job? Ant is a build tool, not an all-purpose scripting language. If what you describe is all you're doing, you might consider a script written in perl or python, or perhaps in java using commons-net directly. Or if you're in a j2ee container environment like jboss, using some of the clustering features they offer.
I wouldn't choose Ant for your use case unless you're also simultaneously doing some other kinds of building and packaging that you haven't mentioned.
Steve
Neeme Praks wrote:
ok, clear enough.
I'll look into the source code of the ftp task and play around with it a bit.
Another suggestion for that task is to allow retry-in-case-of-failure, not just abort or ignore as in the current version. But I'll take those issues up on Ant list.
My use case is simple: I'm using ant ftp task to deploy Velocity scripts to several front-end machines (7 in total).
And it is really annoying to change one file and to discover that instead of just uploading one file, it will upload a whole bunch of them...
I actually need some more customized behaviour, so I will most probably write a separate task and see if there are any more interested parties in Ant community.
Rgds, Neeme
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