http://bleaklow.com:80/tags/ant/ My opinions may be incorrect, but they are my own en Alan Burlison Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:50:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://bleaklow.com/images/misc/logo.gif http://bleaklow.com:80/ http://bleaklow.com:80/2006/03/25/why_i_hate_xml_and_ants_use_of_it_in_particular.html <p> I was googling around for examples of how to sign a JAR file in Ant using the signjar task and came across <a href="http://www.codecomments.com/message630181.html">this</a> monstrosity - 217 lines of turgid XML. How anyone can say Ant is an improvement over make is a mystery to me, and how anyone could ever think that XML is fit for consumption by humans is an even <b>bigger</b> mystery. XML is food for machines, not people. I sincerely hope that the current fad for doing <a href="http://thedailywtf.com/forums/63360/ShowPost.aspx">everything in XML</a> (and we have some examples close to home) is going to an early grave. </p><p> What I'm actually trying to do is to deploy an application via WebStart from within NetBeans - I've loaded up the NetBeans WebStart module but it really doesn't cut the mustard yet, it doesn't support JAR signing, it hard-codes the name of the JNLP file and it assumes you want a WAR file building. Here's hoping they make the necessary improvements in short order. </p> Tech Java http://bleaklow.com:80/2006/03/25/why_i_hate_xml_and_ants_use_of_it_in_particular.html#comments http://bleaklow.com:80/2006/03/25/why_i_hate_xml_and_ants_use_of_it_in_particular.html Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:26:49 GMT