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Fred Grott

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Fred Grott is Lead Developer-CEO of ShareMe Technologies LLC -The Mobile Future
Building a Build System with Groovy and ANT Posted: Nov 17, 2006 2:02 PM
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To understand some of the basis of concepts of why I am embarking on using Groovy integrate with ANT to build a build system for JavaME you have to go to the beginning of this debate. In this case, namely Bruce Eckel's 1-1-04 blog article on this subject.

Unfortunately, James Duncan Davidson's ANT and XML article is not up anymore explaining why his choice on limiting language constructs in ANT was not a good idea. But if you start viewing build scripts from Ruby on Rails whereas the build tool does have a full range of language constructs you start noticing that the build files are somewhat smaller and other benefits.

But getting back to what Bruce Eckel was speaking about..the idea of getting away from manually writing the XML build file. But at the same time XML is good at describing hierarchical data.

Thus, if I integrate Groovy with ANT the ANT way I would have to come up with some way to repeat and re-use ANT XML fragments. In other words something object based. Or if the hierarchical data benefits of XML are not important I could build the ANT build file integrating with Groovy the Groovy way.

An interesting set of choices. I think the main choice or point is not have the control logic as ANT XML but as Groovy constructs.

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