Re: Giving an application a window icon in a sensible way

nobody has yet mentioned anything remotely resembling a URL for it, and
it should be fairly obvious that a google search with the query "ant"
is unlikely to produce anything relevant here.

Clearly you didn't even try. As someone has already pointed out, a
google search for 'ant' will present the project page as the first
link. This should be proof enough of the popularity of the tool.

Furthermore, there's the question of whether it can be easily
integrated with eclipse, and if so how, without adding too much
complication or work to each testing cycle...

Yes, it integrates easily with eclipse and any other serious IDE. It is
a tool for scripting your build process so, while there is a slight
overhead in writing the script (and it shouldnt be more than an hour or
two, infact, probably far less time than you have already spent arguing
the toss on this newgroup), once the script is written it will
significantly improve your build and testing cycle as you can use it to
automate your build, run your tests, generate your documentation,
create a Java webstart archive for your software, deploy it to an app
server (although this seems not to be required for your software) etc
etc. You will also be able to set up an use a continous integration
server that will periodically check out your code (assuming you are
running a version control system like CVS and subversion... and if not,
you should be) and run the build and tests, emailing you if there are
any failures so you find out about integration errors quickly an
efficiently. Every serious project (open source or otherwise) uses
either ant or maven (I prefer the former, YMMV) for build automatation,
this includes the Sun sponsered 'glassfish' application server.

I can assure you that if you take on contract work, or work on any
serious established product, you WILL come across this tool eventually.
You seem to be underestimating how ubiquitous it actually is.

To be honest, given the arrogant tone of your first two reply sections,
and your requirement that others do all the legwork for you (down to
actually doing the google search!) I am not even sure why I am even
bothering to reply. In any case, I am done with this thread, you will
either take the good advice provided here and move forward, or continue
in your (false) belief that you are the smartest and most experience
Java developer around. Your choice will be for your benefit (or
detriment), not mine. Personally, I am quite happy that you continue
ignoring the best practices of the Java development community, it will
be one less senior level developer that I will need to compete with for
work.

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