There is an interesting thread going on at user@ant. Somebody asks about using Ant outside of the pure Java realm and not only gets the usual "C for JNI" type of answers but also things like a JavaScript library.

At work I drive parts of an ASP.NET webservices project using the built-in <wsdl2dotnet> and <csc> tasks as well as my experimental <nunit> (all on Mono and MacOS X, BTW) and Axis's <wsdl2java> tasks. Steve once suggested to use <junit> to drive Axis-backed interop tests, but I still need to go there.

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