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Re: JSFTemplating: Ant 1.6.5 vs 1.7

From: Jason Lee <jason_at_steeplesoft.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:38:52 -0500

On 5/30/07, Frederick Brock <frederick.brock_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I rolled maven out on a project sometime back and it took a little while
> for us all to feel comfortable with it. My goal at the time was to
>

mvn fred:ensureQuality

Sorry. Really bad joke... :P

ensure that we had quality checkpoints prior to check in. With maven it was
> easy to enforce a test-driven approach and to ensure everyone was using the
> same workstation configuration while still allowing them to use whatever ide
> they wished.
>

IDE project generation is one of the cool features for me. It's the only
thing (I think) that I can't get in ant, at the moment.

From an opensource perspective, Im hoping maven will make it even easier to
> download and use jsftemplating. when all you have to do is add it to your
> pom.xml (my famous last words!!) it's pretty easy to get up and running
> quickly.
>

You can publish to a maven repo with ant (using the Maven Ant libs, iirc).
We're doing that in the JSF RI, at the moment. For what that's worth.

-- 
Jason Lee, SCJP
JSF RI Dev Team
http://blogs.steeplesoft.com