Just came across this entry by Jonathan Rentzsch that goes into the pros of using WOProject and Ant to build complex WebObjects projects.
Here are the summary bullet points:
- Cross-project dependancies
- Automated deployment
- Speed
- Open Source
- Transparent project description
- Cross-Platform
Sounds like it would be perfect for APOLLO, with its several frameworks and adaptors, needing to be built in a particular order, and deployed in particular places. I'll be investigating building an Ant project for the various bits of APOLLO, and seeing if it will co-exist with the existing XCode build process.
UPDATE: Hmm. Looks like WOProject/WOLips hasn't been updated to work with Eclipse 3.0 (which has been out since June 25). I may hold off a bit until WOLips works with the latest stable Eclipse release. According to the WOLips mailing list, they didn't think it would take more than a couple of days from the release of Eclipse 3.0 to release a version of WOLips that worked with it. I guess they hit some stumbling block somewhere along the road (or WWDC got in the way ;-) )