Mandible for Ant

Mandible is an Ant project that has been designed for reuse. It uses a single build.xml file to define standard tasks that can be accessed via "project" files. The project file is a standard java property file that overrides default variables that have been defined within the build.xml file. Along with "standard" variables, Mandible defines a standard default directory structure.

Project property files are kept in the ant/projects directory. Projects can live anywhere in the filesystem, but if you build your project in the mandible/project directory, you can use predefined variables.

Standard tasks include

• make-project: compiles, javadocs and jars a project
• run-program: runs a specified java program
• make-source: compiles and jars a texen project.
• deploy-app: jars files in an app
• war-app: wars files in a web app
• checkout-project: cvs
• checkin-project: cvs

Requirements

Mandible was built and tested using Ant 1.4.1. 

License

Mandible is open source and released under the GNU GPL This software does not come with a warranty of any kind. Use at you own risk. You may modify and distribute the code as you wish, as long as you provide the source code and this copyright with it.

Author

Mandible was written and designed by Brad Matlack.  My website is at http://workzen.com
Copyright (c) Brad D Matlack 12-12-2001