Adding Ant, JUnit to Ticker Plant Project
I had to take a little time-out this afternoon to install Ant and JUnit on the development machines we're using so that the Team can start working on the Java side of things. I have to say that while I'm not a huge fan of Ant, it's adequate, and the rules that people are building are pretty impressive. Of course, there's very little that you can't do in GNU make, as I've learned, but I can see that the Java/XML generation doesn't want to have to learn what I've learned in order to have a decent, stable build system for Java. So be it. It's not horrible.
JUnit is in the same boat, in my book. It's adequate, and yet everything it does can be done by your own test frameworks, it's just that they already have this one, and in that it makes sense to use it.
It took me a little time to get things all set up and configured properly - about 30 mins. Yeah, that's about as fast as I've ever done it. It helped to have used both a lot, and to know how to lay out the project to get it all working easily. Once I had it all in I just needed to run a few tests and check it all in.
Now they can get started on the Java client.