[andrewh]

An option to generate Ant build files for all parts of the build and deployment process would be useful for integration with a master Ant build, without the use of Eclipse.

For interactive development you would use MyEclipse as is, then for a full system build, you would run the master Ant build. You could also run individual Ant builds to build/deploy individual components.

Regards

Andrew Harris

[Riyad Kalla]

Andrew this is a good suggestion… kind of a “Generate build file” of sorts, like you can do with Javadoc generation in Eclipse now?

[Scott Anderson]

Andrew,

An option to generate Ant build files for all parts of the build and deployment process would be useful for integration with a master Ant build, without the use of Eclipse.

First, for the exploded deployments we don’t use Ant at all since it’s an incremental process that is tied into the Eclipse build process. While we do internally use a little Ant for the packaged deployments, it is only a war task to package up the project since it is already in an exploded war format and the java is precompiled with debug information. This isn’t what you want anyway from a master build perspective since you’d really like an optimized, non-debug compilation for external deployment.

[Andrew Freeman]

+1

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