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Wednesday Mar 26, 2008
GraphViz and ant2dot
So, in trying to understand the ANT build here at my new company Widgetbox
, I pulled out an old friend from my toolbox.
Using the ant2dot.xsl file, I was able to transform the build.xml file into a "build.dot" file. Then using a MacOSX port of GraphViz, I was able to tranform the "build.dot" file into a build.png.
Seeing the build dependencies represented graphically can really help with comprehension of a new build.
Posted at 02:46PM Mar 26, 2008 by Nelson "Nelz" Carpentier in Java | Comments[0]