Introduction

This package contains a custom BuildListener and Task that display messages via Growl/JGrowl.

Prerequisites

• The growllistener jar
• The JGrowl jar (binaryblizzard.jar)
• JGrowl (Linux) (http://homepage.mac.com/stevevm/JGrowl/JGrowl.tar.gz)
• Growl (Mac OS X only) (http://growl.info)

Details

Setting things up in Mac OS with Growl

• Make sure the following settings are enabled in Growl's Network preferences:
• "Listen for incoming notifications"
• "Allow remote application registration"
• Put growllistener.jar into Ant's lib directory
• Put binaryblizzard.jar (From JGrowl) into Ant's lib directory

Setting things up in Linux with JGrowl

• Startup JGrowl
• Put growllistener.jar into Ant's lib directory
• Put binaryblizzard.jar (From JGrowl) into Ant's lib directory

Using the Growl BuildListener

• To make ant use the new listener, invoke ant like this:
• ant -listener net.slimeslurp.growl.GrowlListener
• You could also add "-listener net.slimeslurp.growl.GrowlListener" to your ANT_ARGS environment variable
• If you set a property called gbl.endsticky in your build file, the Build Finished notification will be "sticky"

Using the GrowlEcho task

• Add a taskdef to your build like this:

<taskdef name="growl" classname="net.slimeslurp.growl.GrowlEcho"/>

• Use the task like this:

<growl message="The message"/>

• GrowlEcho now support accepts a sticky attribute which, when set, will cause the notification to be "sticky"