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Groovy & Grails eXchange 2009: Russel Winder on Gant, the lightweight and Groovy targeted scripting framework
Gant, the lightweight and Groovy targeted scripting framework
Source Code
zip file with source code
Talk Summary
Gant started out as a thin layer over Groovy's AntBuilder, to provide a way of replacing XML as the way of controlling Ant tasks in executing specific targets. This more or less remains what Gant is really about: Gant doesn't simply replace the XML front end to Ant, it provides target specification and dependency for Groovy scripts that use an AntBuilder. There was some flirtation with Gant becoming a fully-fledged build framework, but Gradle evolved out of Gant to take up that torch. Gant's role then is to be very lightweight and yet provide useful functionality in terms of command line and direct API support for specifying targets to execute and scripting execution of Ant tasks.
In this talk we will look at the Groovy techniques used in Gant to provide the functionality it does. Particular emphasis will be placed on using (or not) the metaclass system, and how to design (or more likely evolve) a domain specific language (DSL) to be well supported by the Groovy language.
ABOUT RUSSEL WINDER
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Russel is centrally involved with the development of the Groovy programming language and the
GPars framework, is author of the Gant Ant task scripting framework, and contributes to the Gradle build
framework.
More about Russel Winder
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PODCAST GANT, THE LIGHTWEIGHT AND GROOVY TARGETED SCRIPTING FRAMEWORK
This session took part at the Groovy & Grails eXchange 2009. You can view the other 19 podcasts here.
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