Jython

Apologies for taking this off on a tangent, but:

I used Ant a while back, but after discovering jython,
I've always suspected that jython would be a superior
alternative (with or without any framework) to do
the kinds of things that Ant does.  And then I stumbled 
on this article:

<http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/06/10/jython.html>

I'm curious if anyone has considered moving off of Ant or
has actually moved off of Ant to jython, and if so, how 
have things played out?  

The only thing I saw in comment section was that you'd lose 
Ant's built-in target dependencies, but I'd imagine it would be 
relatively easy to replicate that (possibly just using 
imports).

TIA,
Clark

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Moyer
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 10:54 AM
To: jython-users@...
Subject: [Jython-users] jython scripting from Ant


I'm trying to run some jython scripting from within Ant like:

       <script language="jpython">
<![CDATA[
print "AAA"
import sys
from java.io                             import File
from common.java.com.foo.jython.Rpt      import Rpt

bundle   = project.getProperty ('bundle.name')
fileset  = project.createDataType ('fileset')
format   = project.getProperty ('srt.format')
fileset.setDir (File(bundle))
fileset.setIncludes ('**/*.rpt')
  ...
]]>
       </script>

It seems to be partially working, except for the "import Rpt".  I don't 
seem to be able to import any of my code.  It does seem to be walking 
the path correctly though, because misnaming one of the branches does 
produce an error telling you it can't find the misnamed branch.

Any suggestions for what's going wrong or how to correct it.

Cheers,
Todd Moyer