Comments on: Building Web Applications With Apache Ant

By: Armindo Cachada

Armindo Cachada — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:23:59 +0000

Julien,

I really found your blog post useful. I used your FileTransform, tweaked it a bit and added extra features. If you are interested you can find more at:

http://simplyolaf.blogspot.com/2009/06/minimizing-number-of-http-requests-by.html

and

http://simplyolaf.blogspot.com/2009/06/minifying-css-and-js-with-yahoo.html

By: Rimian

Rimian — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:08:57 +0000

Nice one! I’ve been using Apache Ant to deploy and manage tasks for a while but this takes me to a new level. Thank you.

By: DJDaveMark

DJDaveMark — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:35:28 +0000

Any reason why we can’t use the ANT tasks ‘replace’ et ‘replaceregexp’ for preprocessing the JavaScript code instead of ‘cpp’?

http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/replace.html

This would save installing Cygwin

By: Jens Elkner

Jens Elkner — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:36:44 +0000

Yeep, that’s a good one. However pretty inefficient ant “support” is pretty annoying. Thus I wrote a Css and Js Ant filter, which might be used e.g. in a copy task (for more info see http://iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/yui/yuicompressor-2.3.5jel.readme.txt). BTW: Also improved performance by ~ factor 10 ;-).

By: hiren panchal

hiren panchal — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:45:27 +0000

indeed great article.

would it be possible for you to post sample ant project which minifies and concatenates js and css files?

thanks in advance

By: Mitchell Cohen

Mitchell Cohen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:31:06 +0000

Greate article…really. Any chance you post your ant script?

By: SiggeLund

SiggeLund — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:54:47 +0000

Excellent guide that truly helped me today. Thank you!

By: Jean-Daniel

Jean-Daniel — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:11:50 +0000

Thanks for this great article.

Just a note about the CPP invocation, I suggest to had the -CC flag to avoid comments stripping. The comment stripping will be performed by yuicompressor and it will preserve conditional comments.

By: Mike Henke

Mike Henke — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:16:04 +0000

Could you update the ant example for yuicompressor.jar to the latest release 2.3.5? Maybe that could be included in the documentaion (Readme file) so it is update for each release. Thanks

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