http://thediscoblog.com/2007/01/19/refactoring-in-nant-generic-ness/ Can you dig it man? Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:10:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://thediscoblog.com/2007/01/19/refactoring-in-nant-generic-ness/#comment-9897 The Disco Blog » Blog Archive » What’s after Ant? Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:28:35 +0000 http://thediscoblog.com/2007/01/19/refactoring-in-nant-generic-ness/#comment-9897 [...] Because it’s my bag, I largely agree with Martin, however, given Ant’s deep penetration within the Java market, compared to Maven (which, I think is one step closer to a Rake-like build platform for Java) I wonder if the Rake model can come to fruition and obtain any reasonable mindshare. Sure, there are hip projects underway like Raven (which combined forces with JRake recently), which does a number of useful things such as compilation, testing, etc, but ultimately, as Ant is the de facto build platform for Java, practically every tool out there bundles an Ant task. If you want to use Raven and would like to generate a report with JavaNCSS, for example, you might have to write some custom Ruby code to fire the JavaNCSS process off. Hopefully, the increased velocity of development on JRuby will alleviate this issue as it appears JRake makes use of Ant tasks. [...] [...] Because it’s my bag, I largely agree with Martin, however, given Ant’s deep penetration within the Java market, compared to Maven (which, I think is one step closer to a Rake-like build platform for Java) I wonder if the Rake model can come to fruition and obtain any reasonable mindshare. Sure, there are hip projects underway like Raven (which combined forces with JRake recently), which does a number of useful things such as compilation, testing, etc, but ultimately, as Ant is the de facto build platform for Java, practically every tool out there bundles an Ant task. If you want to use Raven and would like to generate a report with JavaNCSS, for example, you might have to write some custom Ruby code to fire the JavaNCSS process off. Hopefully, the increased velocity of development on JRuby will alleviate this issue as it appears JRake makes use of Ant tasks. [...]

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