By bloid
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Published: Feb 02 2008 / 18:27
I am very intrigued with the idea of new Java building infrastructure. I'm a pretty committed Ant devotee, owing to bad experiences with some early Maven builds. So far, there hasn't really been anything that I want to do that I can't get Ant to do. Every so often I needed to write a custom ant task, but that's pretty rare. However the main reason that I don't like Maven is that I'm a control freak. I like things in the directories that I want them. I don't like my project's build to the build tool. That just seems so counter-intuitive to me. But this post isn't about Maven...
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kieronwilkinson replied ago:
Nice post, but I don't agree with the arguments against this thing. If you were going to have a Java-based builder, I would have thought that part of a decent builder distrib would allow you to just specify a Java file as a script (like BeanShell) and compile and run on the fly. I guess it would implement some interface or something that provides the entry-point. Maybe there is a downside to this, but I can't see any at the moment.
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