My company is looking at creating a tool to allow us to define and manage a
process for each job we run (a typical job may be look on a customers ftp
site for a file, download it, decrypt it and load it into our database). We
would like something which would allow us to glue together various existing
processes we currently use into a single unit with multiple steps. Along
the way, this new routine would need to log its progress and be able to
report and even handle errors. A coworker has suggested we look at Ant
("Another Neat Tool") and, though it looks promising, I have reservations.
If I recall correctly, it was intended as a replacement for "Make" and I
worry that we may be trying to force Ant to be something it is not. Also,
most of our code base is in Python and I'd really like to stay that way, of
possible.
Are there any systems out there that will allow me to run multiple programs
as one process? We could write our own, of course, and the Twisted package
looks like it would be fun to use. Or, is Ant a viable solution to our
problem?
Your constructive comments would be appreciated
Greg Lindstrom
Novasys Health
Little Rock, Arkansas
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