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July 12, 2004
On Ant
rentzsch writes about WOProject: Why You Should Care,
But it should really be called Ant: Why You Should Care. I'm working my way through Ant, The Definitive Guide and am starting to get it. I have a task of zipping thousands of files, SFTP'ing them to a server, unzipping them and running a script. It takes up to an hour or so with all of the details I've left out. With an Ant script, I could get this down to minutes.
Next on the list is using Ant to check HTML files into CVS, zipping the old version on the server, deleting files, deploying new files and copying the server zip to the workstation, renaming it to the current date/time.
Posted by michael at July 12, 2004 10:19 AM