I wanted to post a follow up after my ColdFusion Meetup Ant presentation, especially for those who couldn’t attend. In addition to the example files and Powerpoint slides included in the ZIP download I have bundled all the ‘extra’ files that don’t come with Ant by default… Files to provide additional Ant tasks for email, FTP, interaction with Oracle, Subversion, etc…
If you download the files there is a /jar directory included as well as some instructions on where to copy these files and how to add the directory to your path.
All of these libraries are released under fairly flexible licenses so I feel it’s OK to bundle them like this. If someone yells at me I’ll remove the offending tasks but until then this will make getting up and running with Ant much easier. I’ll also try to keep that updated if I run into any additonal tasks that prove useful. I’ve also added a link to the recording as well!
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Thanks Jim. I didnt attend the presentation but I was able to look at the recording. Great job. Thanks again.
Jim - I missed the preso, but would you mind telling me what external tasks you use regularly? For me, it’s SvnAnt, Antelope and, although it’s not a task, the jsch library that supports SCP, etc. Just curious what you use often enough that it makes it into your default installation.
Rob - I use SVNAnt of course. And StatSvn for reporting. I also have one for obfuscating my password during input (Jera Ant Tasks). And one for interacting w/Oracle (Incanto). And the req’d files for using email.
I need to setup a page on my wiki to document all these useful task libraries…
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