Re: ant as a workflow engine

2003-01-20 Thread Scott Walters
Thanks for all the info. I've been experimenting with writing ant tasks, and I'm starting to think that it's a great framework for what I'm trying to do. While I agree that maven would probably be better, I could never get even the simplest build script to work after hours of trying. I

Re: ant as a workflow engine

2003-01-19 Thread Stefan Bodewig
There is a workflow subproject in jakarta-commons sandbox that may be of interest to you ... On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Scott Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Can I pipe the xml output of one task into the next task without using a file? Not easily without touching the tasks, but if you are

RE: ant as a workflow engine

2003-01-17 Thread Dominique Devienne
Have you looked into Jelly? You may find that it suits your needs better in some ways. Ant was design as a build tool and thus its keepers resist scripting capabilities that you might need. Ant is more mature, but Jelly is already used by a few projects, notably Maven (which incidentally used to

RE: ant as a workflow engine

2003-01-17 Thread Dominique Devienne
to Jelly if need be. --DD -Original Message- From: Scott Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 3:45 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: ant as a workflow engine I will look into it. The idea of using Ant for this appealed to me due to it's ability to execute java