Related Projects

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AndroMDA

AndroMDA is a code generator tool that follows the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) paradigm. It takes a UML model from a CASE-tool and generates classes and deployable components (J2EE or other) specific for your application architecture.

Compatibility:	1.4.1 and above
URL:	http://www.AndroMDA.org/
Contact:	project mailing lists
License:	BSD license

AntContrib

The Ant-Contrib project is a collection of user supplied task (like an <if> task) and a development playground for experimental tasks like a C/C++ compilation task for different compilers.

Compatibility:	1.4.1 and above
URL:	http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/
Contact:	project mailing list
License:	Apache Software Foundation license

Antelope

A GUI for running Ant and editing build files, can run as stand-alone or as a plugin to jEdit. In addition to running targets, Antelope can generate performance statistics and can trace/display a target's execution path without actually executing the target.

Includes several additional tasks: Assert, If/Else, Try/Catch/Finally, Switch, Variable, Stopwatch, Limit, Math, Post, SSH, SCP, AntFetch, AntCallBack.

Compatibility:	Ant 1.5 and higher.
URL:	http://antelope.tigris.org/
Contact:	Dale Anson
License:	Apache Software Foundation License

AntHill

Anthill is a build tool that promotes a controlled build process by ensuring that every build reflects the source repository contents and tagging the repository with a unique build number after every build. Anthill also encourages the sharing of knowledge within an organization by automatically updating a project intranet site with artifacts from the latest build.

Compatibility:	bundles Ant 1.3, is compatible with Ant 1.3 to 1.4.1
URL:	http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/
Contact:	Maciej Zawadzki
License:	Mozilla-like license

Antworks

The antworks project is a set of tools and standardized targets that greatly simplifies using ant in your project.

The driver behind antworks is Importer. Importer is an extension to the ant import task that will download and cache an ant build.xml file and it's associated resources called antlets. Antlets are available for Java compiling and packaging, JUnit, Forrest, J2EE and more.

See the Getting Started guide for more information.

Compatibility:	1.6 and later
URL:	http://antworks.sourceforge.net/index.html
Contact:	Antworks Developers mailing lists
License:	The Apache License 2.0

BuildMonkey

BuildMonkey is a Web-based automated build dashboard, with upload capability and google web search. It schedules the running of Ant build scripts - checking sources out of CM - and makes the results available centrally.

Compatibility:	Ant 1.5.4 or later
URL:	http://www.buildmonkey.com
Contact:	[email protected]
License:	Freeware, commercial/support licences available

CruiseControl

CruiseControl is a tool for setting up a continuous build process. CruiseControl provides an Ant wrapper and a set of tasks to automate the checkout/build/test cycle. CruiseControl also comes bundled with a servlet for viewing the status of the current build, as well as previous build results.

Compatibility:	Ant 1.2 and higher
URL:	http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/
Contact:	Project Mailing Lists and Administrators
License:	Release 1.0 has been licensed under the GNU General Public License. Starting with release 1.1 the license has been changed to a BSD-like license.

Invicta

Invicta is a build management tool. Using simple project definition files, it generates powerful build scripts (such as ANT) while hiding their complexity. Invicta is a modular framework that allows developing additional components and output types.

Compatibility:	Ant 1.5 and higher
URL:	http://invicta.sf.net/
Contact:	Project Mailing Lists and Administrators
License:	LGPL.

JAM - JavaGen Ant Modules

JAM is a modular Ant toolkit for developing and testing Java/J2EE applications. JAM supports EJB and Servlet/JSP development using XDoclet, JUnit, Cactus, Maven, Castor and MDA/UML code generation on various J2EE servers including JBoss.

Compatibility:	Ant 1.6
URL:	http://www.javagen.com/jam.jsp
Contact:	Feedback Bug Reports
License:	GPL

Krysalis Centipede

The Centipede admin told us, that that project "is no more" and that "Antworks has taken it place."

luntbuild

Luntbuild is an open source build automation and management tool based on Apache Ant. Builds are setup through concepts of projects, views, schedules, modules, etc. All configurations and monitoring tasks is performed from a clean web interface. It supports schedules builds, force builds, rebuilds, clean build, increment build, etc.

Compatibility:	Ant 1.x
URL:	http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/luntbuild/
Contact:	luntbuild project page
License:	Opensource

NAnt

NAnt is a .NET based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make's wrinkles. In practice it's a lot like Ant.

Compatibility:	compatible in spirit.
URL:	http://nant.sourceforge.net/
Contact:	project mailing list
License:	GNU General Public License

Rant

Rant stands for Remote Ant. It is a distributed build system that allows an Ant build file to launch builds on other systems and receive exceptions should they occur.

Compatibility:	Ant 1.4
URL:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/remoteant/
Contact:	Chris Nelson
License:	MIT License

Savant

Savant helps simplify builds and codebases by handling the resolution of project dependencies automatically. Savant supports Maven style dependency downloads and various other methods of retrieving dependencies, including fetching files from CVS modules. Savant goes a step further than other dependency solutions and provides the means for multiple internal projects to build each other in order to resolve inter-project dependencies.

Savant can be used via various Ant types and tasks as well as used from any Java application including those that do not make use of Ant.

Compatibility:	Ant 1.6.1
URL:	http://www.inversoft.com
Contact:	http://www.inversoft.com/contact.html
License:	LGPL

XML Publication

XML Publication is a set of tools to generate Web pages from desktop documents or other structured documents using XSLT and Ant.

Compatibility:	Ant 1.4
URL:	http://XMLpublication.org/
Contact:	Jean-Marc Vanel
License:	GNU General Public License.

yEd

yEd is a freeware multi-purpose graph and diagram editor that runs on the Java 2 platform. It provides an import filter for Ant build scripts that makes it possible to conveniently display and browse the dependenies between the different targets of the build file. This is especially useful for debugging and understanding large build files.

Compatibility:	Ant 1.x
URL:	http://www.yworks.com/products/yed/
Contact:	yWorks Support
License:	Freeware