From owner-freebsd-java Tue Feb 26 16:51:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from carme.recalldesign.com (carme.recalldesign.com [203.15.93.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C682137B400 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:51:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from io.internal.recalldesign.com (mail.internal.recalldesign.com [203.15.93.150]) by carme.recalldesign.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1R0dle29150; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:09:47 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from mike@vee.net) Received: from vee.net (polarlander.internal.recalldesign.com [203.15.93.252]) by io.internal.recalldesign.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1R0pNo04009; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:21:24 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from mike@vee.net) Message-ID: <3C7C2D8B.10203@vee.net> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:21:23 +1030 From: Michael Gratton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020225 X-Accept-Language: en-au, en-gb, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bissell, Tim" Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is ant good for? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bissell, Tim wrote: > Tubby honest, I'm not convinced Jikes and Ant go together - > Jikes' raison d'etre is speed, but the java compiler is quite > fast when used inside the Ant JVM - you lose the startup costs. True, true, but one of the reasons I use Jikes with ant is to recover the time cost from starting Ant. 8) Still, due to some wacky bugs jikes has, I have cause to use javac with Ant, and javac still does take longer than, significantly so for large builds, even without the overhead of starting a JVM. >>So I'm wondering whether ant does anything that would make it >>worth the effort of learning to use it. >> > [snip: many good reasons to use Ant] To add to that list: Automatically generating release documention and the web site for your project, using XSLT. Mike. -- Mike Gratton Leader in leachate production and transmission since 1976. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message