[Springframework-developer] ANT Build File suggestion

[Tony F. <ton...@ya...>]

What does everyone think of making a small modification to the build.xml file to include descriptions of the tasks available to be run?  

Right now only 2 tasks have a description associated with them.  Thus when you do: "ant -projecthelp" only these 2 tasks show up.  Here is the output:

 Buildfile: build.xml
 Main targets:

  checkstyle  Runs the checkstyle optional task to check for adherence to coding conventions
  format      Formats '.java' files (that are writable) contained within src dir

 Default target: usage


Since the default task is the "usage" task, and it has not been kept up to date with descriptions, I think it would benefit us to just add a simple description to each task that is available in ant.

This means that instead of having this:
 <target name="prepare" depends="init">

We'd have this:
 <target name="prepare" description="Prepares the project for building" depends="init">