On Wednesday 13 Apr 2005 20:14, Dusty Phillips wrote:
Most articles I've read have been anti-groovy scripting, and I doubt this would become a standard either within the Java community (ie: where ant currently dominates) or across all projects that need build management.
I just find it interesting, and I must confess that I prefer it.
Well, that's what it's all about is it?! :) You're right, Ant has become the de facto standard in Java projects. I never try writing one from hand because it's too much faff (although if I *actually* learned the syntax, then I may fare better!!). I just load up Eclipse, import the project from the file system and then it's possible to export Eclipse's generated Ant file. Sure, it's not customised, but it gives everything I need. Netbeans does a similar thing. To be fair, I've seen more complex ant files than the example you posted! I was impressed by the Groovy approach you've taken. If your goal is to simply type less to create a build script, then you can consider this approach a success. However, I wouldn't say it's any easier than the Ant approach. arooaroo