Re: BeanShell and ant

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:26:58AM +0200, Lendvai Attila wrote:
> 
> did anyone tought of creating some helper classes that help building
> java (and all the usual things ant can do), and use beanshell build
> scripts to replace ant?

It should be pretty easy to simply call the Ant tasks from a BeanShell script.

I have thought about this a little in the past, mainly because there are a lot
of nifty little utilities in the form of Ant tasks... e.g. ftp a file here,
redeploy an EAR, etc.

I agree with Dawid that Ant is good the way it is and I wouldn't want to
replace my general usage with ad-hoc scripts, but I can imagine some cases
where it would be useful to call ant tasks from bsh scripts.

I would suggest looking at how Ant tasks are implemented and seeing what it
would take to call them procedurally from BeanShell...  It might also help if
BeanShell had a syntax to make a Map easily or to assign named arguments to
method calls...


Pat


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