Re: [Zookeeper-user] Moving to maven

[Benjamin R. <br...@ya...>]

On Saturday 08 December 2007, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
>
> I've worked on many Ant projects and it falls down when a project gets
> sophisticated. IMO, ZooKeeper is on the precipice of build complexity;
> you already have your own IDL compiler.  As you move on you want to
> focus on the code, not the build system.  From experience I know that
> Ant is brittle.
>

Perhaps this is the disconnect. The IDL compiler is for jute, which is part of 
Hadoop and was modified for a C binding. We are actually hoping to get rid of 
it and move to something like Thrift. (Although, Thrift does not have a C 
binding...)

Our build ends up being extremely simple. Even if we were to break the client 
and server in Java into two jars, it's really just a simple ant script.

ben