http://www.pycs.net/USERS/0000177/stories/11.html
Use Jython to Write Ant Tasks
Abstract
This article looks at how to add scripted behaviour to ant builds. It details the steps to write a custom Ant task in jython, compile it and install it into ant so it can be used as any other task in an ant build. The article also Takes a Quick Look at an Alternate Implementation Using Groovy.
Fowler Summarizes The Issues Like this:
... Simple builds are easy to express as a series of tasks and dependencies For such builds the facilities of ant / make work well But more complex builds require conditional logic, and that requires more general programming language constructs -.. And that's where ant / make falp.
