Jim Fuller wrote:
The CLI (and thus XMLTools) can do both native and remote calls. There's a -l option (IIRC) which says use embedded mode, otherwise it uses XMLRPC.But what I do see from looking at the deployment task is that it uses the XMLTools class, which is also used by the CLI tools. This is very good practice.
My ant task uses xml-rpc calls so can control remote db's...not sure if
XMLTools is doing native calls or not, will take a look at the
DeploymentTask in detail.
But the DeploymentTask doesn't support this. But making it do so would be __extremely__ trivial.
Oh, and if you get to understand how this works, then a page on the wiki (even better, a patch for the xdocs) about how it works would be great!
The not ready for prime time will get put in wiki, then I will cook it a
bit more to patch docs...which I am also going through in detail.
Sounds perfect.
I have
to admit that documentation in general could do with a bit of
refactoring; the information is generally fine, but the structure is a
bit helter skelter and I having gone through xindice just recently I
think I can comment on where newbies have problems comprehending what is
authorative versus what is ancillery.
I'm sure all the help available will be appreciated.
Regards, Upayavira
