Gant as Ant and Maven replacement
Thursday, August 30th
8:45pm-9:30pm
Groovy makes it very easy to create domain specific languages for working on the Java Platform. The idea of a builder is particularly useful for XML file construction (MarkupBuilder, StreamingMarkupBuilder, DOMBuilder), Swing interface construction (SwingBuilder), and scripting Ant tasks (AntBuilder). Gant is some Groovy infrastructure that adds
support for easy use of AntBuilder as a replacement for Ant. Using Groovy rather than XML for describing builds using Ant tasks is a huge win. Moreover, there are plans to add to Gant so that it can replace Maven as well!
In this session we will look at why Groovy beats XML for specifying
builds -- how adding imperative to declarative makes like easier.
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