Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:21:23 +1030 From: Michael Gratton <mike@vee.net> To: "Bissell, Tim" <Tim.Bissell@DRKW.com> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is ant good for? Message-ID: <3C7C2D8B.10203@vee.net> References: <F1BBCA8B7950D21186320008C7A4D6CB0B5841CD@drkblonc0019.gb.dresdnerkb.com>
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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 <mike@vee.net> Leader in leachate production and transmission since 1976. <http://web.vee.net/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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