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  14. <document>
  15. <properties>
  16. <author email="bodewig@apache.org">Stefan Bodewig</author>
  17. <title>External Tools and Tasks</title>
  18. </properties>
  19. <body>
  20. <section name="External Tools and Tasks">
  21. <p>This page lists external resources for Apache Ant: <a
  22. href="#Tasks">Tasks</a>, <a
  23. href="#Compiler%20Implementations">Compiler Implementations</a>,
  24. <a href="#IDE%20and%20Editor%20Integration">IDE integration
  25. tools</a>, <a href="#Source%20Control%20ystems">Source Control
  26. Systems</a>, loggers, you name it. If you've written
  27. something that should be included, please post all relevant
  28. information to one of the mailing lists. For details, see the
  29. <a href="faq.html#adding-external-tasks">FAQ</a>.</p>
  30. <p>Nothing listed here is directly supported by the Ant
  31. developers (therefore '<i>external</i> tools and tasks'),
  32. if you encounter any problems with them, please use
  33. the contact information.</p>
  34. </section>
  35. <section name="Tasks">
  36. <subsection name="AJC">
  37. <p><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/">AspectJ</a> is an
  38. aspect-oriented extension to Java. This task compiles a
  39. source tree using the AspectJ compiler -- AJC.</p>
  40. <table class="externals">
  41. <tr>
  42. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  43. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  44. </tr>
  45. <tr>
  46. <th>URL:</th>
  47. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/">http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/</a></td>
  48. </tr>
  49. <tr>
  50. <th>Contact:</th>
  51. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/">project mailing lists</a></td>
  52. </tr>
  53. <tr>
  54. <th>License:</th>
  55. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  56. </tr>
  57. </table>
  58. </subsection>
  59. <subsection name="Anakia">
  60. <p>Actually, Anakia is more than just an Ant task, it is a an
  61. XML transformation tool based on JDOM, Velocity and Ant.</p>
  62. <table class="externals">
  63. <tr>
  64. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  65. <td>Ant 1.2 and later</td>
  66. </tr>
  67. <tr>
  68. <th>URL:</th>
  69. <td><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html">http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html</a></td>
  70. </tr>
  71. <tr>
  72. <th>Contact:</th>
  73. <td><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html">Velocity mailing lists</a></td>
  74. </tr>
  75. <tr>
  76. <th>License:</th>
  77. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  78. </tr>
  79. </table>
  80. </subsection>
  81. <subsection name="Andariel">
  82. <p>Andariel is a set of tasks designed to help the generation of HTML
  83. (and other markup languages) pages from Ant. Includes a XPath processor,
  84. an image information retriever, and others.</p>
  85. <table class="externals">
  86. <tr>
  87. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  88. <td>Ant 1.5.4 and newer</td>
  89. </tr>
  90. <tr>
  91. <th>URL:</th>
  92. <td><a href="http://andariel.uworks.net/">http://andariel.uworks.net/</a></td>
  93. </tr>
  94. <tr>
  95. <th>Contact:</th>
  96. <td>josep DOT rio AT uworks DOT net</td>
  97. </tr>
  98. <tr>
  99. <th>License:</th>
  100. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  101. </tr>
  102. </table>
  103. </subsection>
  104. <subsection name="Ant2Svg">
  105. <p>Ant2Svg creates a graphical representation of an Ant build file.
  106. The graphical representation is in the form of a Scalable Vector
  107. Graphics (SVG) file that can be displayed in a web browser. This
  108. simplified SVG depiction helps the developer understand build file
  109. structure and identify extraneous or missing dependencies.</p>
  110. <table class="externals">
  111. <tr>
  112. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  113. <td>Ant 1.6.1 and higher</td>
  114. </tr>
  115. <tr>
  116. <th>URL:</th>
  117. <td><a href="http://www.spiritedsw.com/ant2svg/">http://www.spiritedsw.com/ant2svg/</a></td>
  118. </tr>
  119. <tr>
  120. <th>Contact:</th>
  121. <td>loney &lt;at&gt; spiritedsw &lt;dot&gt; com</td>
  122. </tr>
  123. <tr>
  124. <th>License:</th>
  125. <td>The Apache Software License 2.0</td>
  126. </tr>
  127. </table>
  128. </subsection>
  129. <subsection name="ant4eclipse">
  130. <p>ant4eclipse provides a set of Ant tasks to make several
  131. configurations from the Eclipse IDE available in Ant
  132. buildscripts. The tasks are aimed to avoid redundancy between
  133. Eclipse and Ant configurations in order to build small but
  134. powerful build systems for the continuous integration
  135. process</p>
  136. <table class="externals">
  137. <tr>
  138. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  139. <td>Ant 1.6.1 and higher</td>
  140. </tr>
  141. <tr>
  142. <th>URL:</th>
  143. <td><a href="http://ant4eclipse.sf.net">http://ant4eclipse.sf.net</a></td>
  144. </tr>
  145. <tr>
  146. <th>Contact:</th>
  147. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=137377">
  148. ant4eclipse user mailing list</a>
  149. </td>
  150. </tr>
  151. <tr>
  152. <th>License:</th>
  153. <td>Sun Public License</td>
  154. </tr>
  155. </table>
  156. </subsection>
  157. <subsection name="AntDoc">
  158. <p>AntDoc is a tool that generates HTML documentation from Ant
  159. buildfiles; the generated HTML is inspired from what javadoc
  160. yields. AntDocGUI offers a simple Ant target launcher named
  161. AntDoc GUI. Ant targets may be launched from the generated
  162. AntDoc HTML pages. Integration to various IDEs is in
  163. progress.</p>
  164. <p>AntDoc can be run via an Ant task, AntDoc GUI can be run
  165. via an Ant task, or via a JVM launch.</p>
  166. <table class="externals">
  167. <tr>
  168. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  169. <td>Ant 1.4.1 and higher</td>
  170. </tr>
  171. <tr>
  172. <th>URL:</th>
  173. <td><a href="http://antdoc.free.fr/">http://antdoc.free.fr/</a></td>
  174. </tr>
  175. <tr>
  176. <th>Contact:</th>
  177. <td>Edouard Mercier</td>
  178. </tr>
  179. <tr>
  180. <th>License:</th>
  181. <td>The Apache Software License</td>
  182. </tr>
  183. </table>
  184. </subsection>
  185. <subsection name="AntDoclet">
  186. <p>AntDoclet is a tool to automatically generate documentation out of
  187. your Ant Tasks' source code.</p>
  188. <p>It is implemented as a Javadoc doclet, and generates reference
  189. documentation and other deliverables from the source code of your
  190. custom Ant Tasks/Types.</p>
  191. <table class="externals">
  192. <tr>
  193. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  194. <td>Ant 1.6+ (not tested on earlier versions)</td>
  195. </tr>
  196. <tr>
  197. <th>URL:</th>
  198. <td><a href="http://antdoclet.neuroning.com/">http://antdoclet.neuroning.com/</a></td>
  199. </tr>
  200. <tr>
  201. <th>Contact:</th>
  202. <td><a href="http://neuroning.com/">Fernando Dobladez</a></td>
  203. </tr>
  204. <tr>
  205. <th>License:</th>
  206. <td>GPL</td>
  207. </tr>
  208. </table>
  209. </subsection>
  210. <subsection name="Anteater">
  211. <p>Anteater is a set of Ant tasks for the functional testing of websites
  212. and web services (functional testing being; hit a URL and ensure the
  213. response meets certain criteria). Can test HTTP params, response
  214. codes, XPath, regexp and Relax NG expressions. Includes HTML reporting
  215. (based on junitreport) and a hierarchical grouping system for quickly
  216. configuring large test scripts.
  217. </p>
  218. <table class="externals">
  219. <tr>
  220. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  221. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  222. </tr>
  223. <tr>
  224. <th>URL:</th>
  225. <td><a href="http://aft.sourceforge.net/">http://aft.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  226. </tr>
  227. <tr>
  228. <th>Contact:</th>
  229. <td><a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aft-devel">developer
  230. mailing list</a></td>
  231. </tr>
  232. <tr>
  233. <th>License:</th>
  234. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  235. </tr>
  236. </table>
  237. </subsection>
  238. <subsection name="AntForm">
  239. <p>Provides a java/swing form-based input scheme for
  240. configuring ant properties and launching ant targets.</p>
  241. <table class="externals">
  242. <tr>
  243. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  244. <td>Ant 1.6.2.</td>
  245. </tr>
  246. <tr>
  247. <th>URL:</th>
  248. <td><a href="http://antforms.sourceforge.net/">http://antforms.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  249. </tr>
  250. <tr>
  251. <th>Contact:</th>
  252. <td><a href="mailto:rene_ghosh@yahoo.com">Ren&#233; Ghosh</a></td>
  253. </tr>
  254. <tr>
  255. <th>License:</th>
  256. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  257. </tr>
  258. </table>
  259. </subsection>
  260. <subsection name="Antmerge">
  261. <p>Provides simple inheritance between ant files</p>
  262. <table class="externals">
  263. <tr>
  264. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  265. <td>Tested with 1.5. Should work with all versions.</td>
  266. </tr>
  267. <tr>
  268. <th>URL:</th>
  269. <td><a href="http://www.russet.org.uk/antmerge.html">http://www.russet.org.uk/antmerge.html</a></td>
  270. </tr>
  271. <tr>
  272. <th>Contact:</th>
  273. <td><a href="mailto:antmerge@russet.org.uk">Phillip Lord</a></td>
  274. </tr>
  275. <tr>
  276. <th>License:</th>
  277. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td>
  278. </tr>
  279. </table>
  280. </subsection>
  281. <subsection name="AntPrettyBuild">
  282. <p>
  283. Ant Pretty Build is a tool to easily show and run Ant buildfiles directly from
  284. within a browser window. It consists of a single XSL file that will generate,
  285. on the fly, in the browser, from the .xml buildfile, a pretty interface showing
  286. project name, description, properties and targets, etc. sorted or unsorted,
  287. allowing to load/modify/add properties, run the whole project, or run selected
  288. set of targets in a specific order, with the ability to modify logger/logfile,
  289. mode and add more libs or command line arguments.
  290. </p>
  291. <table class="externals">
  292. <tr>
  293. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  294. <td>All Ant versions</td>
  295. </tr>
  296. <tr>
  297. <th>URL:</th>
  298. <td><a href="http://antprettybuild.sourceforge.net/">Ant Pretty Build Homepage</a></td>
  299. </tr>
  300. <tr>
  301. <th>Contact:</th>
  302. <td><a href="http://antprettybuild.sourceforge.net">Charbel BITAR</a></td>
  303. </tr>
  304. <tr>
  305. <th>License:</th>
  306. <td>Apache License V2.0</td>
  307. </tr>
  308. </table>
  309. </subsection>
  310. <subsection name="AntSpaces">
  311. <p>AntSpaces provides Ant integration with JavaSpaces. This
  312. allows you to coordinate Ant tasks via JavaSpaces, pull out
  313. work units from a JavaSpace for distributed Ant tasks to work
  314. on, and so forth.</p>
  315. <table class="externals">
  316. <tr>
  317. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  318. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  319. </tr>
  320. <tr>
  321. <th>URL:</th>
  322. <td>
  323. <a href="http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/antspaces/">http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/antspaces/</a>
  324. </td>
  325. </tr>
  326. <tr>
  327. <th>Contact:</th>
  328. <td>antspaces at oopsconsultancy.com</td>
  329. </tr>
  330. <tr>
  331. <th>License:</th>
  332. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  333. </tr>
  334. </table>
  335. </subsection>
  336. <subsection name="AntTimerTask">
  337. <p><a href="http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/AntTimerTask/index.html">Timer</a>
  338. is task for measuring the time elapsed to complete other
  339. tasks</p>
  340. <table class="externals">
  341. <tr>
  342. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  343. <td>Ant 1.6</td>
  344. </tr>
  345. <tr>
  346. <th>URL:</th>
  347. <td>
  348. <a href="http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/AntTimerTask/index.html">http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/AntTimerTask/index.html</a>
  349. </td>
  350. </tr>
  351. <tr>
  352. <th>Contact:</th>
  353. <td><a href="mailto:mario@jeckle.de">mario@jeckle.de</a></td>
  354. </tr>
  355. <tr>
  356. <th>License:</th>
  357. <td>Lesser GNU Public License</td>
  358. </tr>
  359. </table>
  360. </subsection>
  361. <subsection name="Ant Web Start Task">
  362. <p>Ant Web Start Task is an Ant task allowing developers to
  363. package a desktop application as a WAR (Web Application
  364. Archive) to be distributed over the net via Java Web Start</p>
  365. <table class="externals">
  366. <tr>
  367. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  368. <td>Ant 1.5 and above</td>
  369. </tr>
  370. <tr>
  371. <th>URL:</th>
  372. <td><a href="http://ant-jnlp-war.sourceforge.net/">http://ant-jnlp-war.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  373. </tr>
  374. <tr>
  375. <th>License:</th>
  376. <td>Apache Software License 2.0</td>
  377. </tr>
  378. </table>
  379. </subsection>
  380. <subsection name="AntXtras">
  381. <p>A collection of powerful Ant extensions components
  382. organized into five categories: fixture-control,
  383. execution-rules, flow-control, feedback, and helpers.</p>
  384. <table class="externals">
  385. <tr>
  386. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  387. <td>Ant 1.6.5</td>
  388. </tr>
  389. <tr>
  390. <th>URL:</th>
  391. <td><a href="http://antxtras.sourceforge.net/">AntXtras Home</a></td>
  392. </tr>
  393. <tr>
  394. <th>Contact:</th>
  395. <td><a href="http://antxtras.sourceforge.net">SSMC</a></td>
  396. </tr>
  397. <tr>
  398. <th>License:</th>
  399. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL 2.1)</td>
  400. </tr>
  401. </table>
  402. </subsection>
  403. <subsection name="Checkstyle">
  404. <p>Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write
  405. Java code that adheres to a coding standard. Its purpose is to
  406. automate the process of checking Java code, and to spare
  407. humans of this boring (but important) task.</p>
  408. <p>Checkstyle can be run via an Ant task or a command line
  409. utility.</p>
  410. <table class="externals">
  411. <tr>
  412. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  413. <td>Ant 1.4.1 and later</td>
  414. </tr>
  415. <tr>
  416. <th>URL:</th>
  417. <td><a href="http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/">http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  418. </tr>
  419. <tr>
  420. <th>Contact:</th>
  421. <td><a href="mailto:checkstyle@puppycrawl.com">Oliver Burn</a></td>
  422. </tr>
  423. <tr>
  424. <th>License:</th>
  425. <td>Starting with release 2.0 the license is the GNU
  426. Lesser General Public License. Prior releases were under
  427. the GNU General Public License.</td>
  428. </tr>
  429. </table>
  430. </subsection>
  431. <subsection name="ChownTask">
  432. <p>ChownTask is an Ant task to change ownership of files on
  433. Unix.</p>
  434. <table class="externals">
  435. <tr>
  436. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  437. <td>Ant 1.3 and up</td>
  438. </tr>
  439. <tr>
  440. <th>URL:</th>
  441. <td>
  442. <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/chowntask/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/chowntask/</a>
  443. </td>
  444. </tr>
  445. <tr>
  446. <th>Contact:</th>
  447. <td><a href="mailto:chowntask-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Wilfred Springer</a>
  448. </td>
  449. </tr>
  450. <tr>
  451. <th>License:</th>
  452. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  453. </tr>
  454. </table>
  455. </subsection>
  456. <subsection name="CleanImports">
  457. <p>Removes unneeded imports. Formats your import
  458. sections. Flags ambiguous imports.</p>
  459. <table class="externals">
  460. <tr>
  461. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  462. <td>Ant 1.3 and up</td>
  463. </tr>
  464. <tr>
  465. <th>URL:</th>
  466. <td><a href="http://www.cleanimports.tombrus.nl">http://www.cleanimports.tombrus.nl</a></td>
  467. </tr>
  468. <tr>
  469. <th>Contact:</th>
  470. <td><a href="mailto:cleanimports@tombrus.nl">Tom Brus</a></td>
  471. </tr>
  472. <tr>
  473. <th>License:</th>
  474. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  475. </tr>
  476. </table>
  477. </subsection>
  478. <subsection name="Clover">
  479. <p>Clover is an Ant-based Code Coverage tool. It can be used
  480. seamlessly with Ant-based projects. It provides method,
  481. statement, and branch coverage analysis, and has rich
  482. reporting in XML, HTML or via a Swing GUI.</p>
  483. <table class="externals">
  484. <tr>
  485. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  486. <td>Ant 1.4.1 or greater</td>
  487. </tr>
  488. <tr>
  489. <th>URL:</th>
  490. <td><a href="http://www.cenqua.com/clover/">http://www.cenqua.com/clover/</a></td>
  491. </tr>
  492. <tr>
  493. <th>Contact:</th>
  494. <td><a href="mailto:clover-support@cenqua.com">clover-support@cenqua.com</a></td>
  495. </tr>
  496. <tr>
  497. <th>License:</th>
  498. <td>Commercial, free licenses available for open source
  499. projects.</td>
  500. </tr>
  501. </table>
  502. </subsection>
  503. <subsection name="CMSDeploy">
  504. <p><a href="http://cmsdeploy.sourceforge.net">CMSDeploy</a> is
  505. an Apache Ant Task to submit files and templates to Vignette
  506. CMS.</p>
  507. <table class="externals">
  508. <tr>
  509. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  510. <td>Ant 1.5.1 and later</td>
  511. </tr>
  512. <tr>
  513. <th>URL:</th>
  514. <td><a href="http://cmsdeploy.sourceforge.net">http://cmsdeploy.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  515. </tr>
  516. <tr>
  517. <th>Contact:</th>
  518. <td><a href="mailto:masogato@users.sourceforge.net">masogato@users.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  519. </tr>
  520. <tr>
  521. <th>License:</th>
  522. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td>
  523. </tr>
  524. </table>
  525. </subsection>
  526. <subsection name="Cocoon Task">
  527. <p>This task allows the generation of static web pages and
  528. sites using Apache Cocoon in off-line mode.</p>
  529. <p>It allows the configuration information for Cocoon to be
  530. included within the Ant build file, and is thus
  531. able to take advantage of Ant properties.</p>
  532. <p>The task shares its code with the Cocoon Command Line, which
  533. means that this task will instantly take
  534. advantage of any new functionality added there.</p>
  535. <table class="externals">
  536. <tr>
  537. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  538. <td>Ant 1.5.3 and above</td>
  539. </tr>
  540. <tr>
  541. <th>URL:</th>
  542. <td><a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/">http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/</a></td>
  543. </tr>
  544. <tr>
  545. <th>Documentation:</th>
  546. <td><a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/offiline/ant.html">http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/offline/ant.html</a></td>
  547. </tr>
  548. <tr>
  549. <th>Contact:</th>
  550. <td><a href="mailto:users.at.cocoon.apache.org">users at cocoon.apache.org</a></td>
  551. </tr>
  552. <tr>
  553. <th>License:</th>
  554. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  555. </tr>
  556. </table>
  557. </subsection>
  558. <subsection name="Configure">
  559. <p>Recursive build support (call ant on every package level,
  560. and only build files in that package or in that package and
  561. everything below) with seperation of source and output.</p>
  562. <p>The task generates build files in any subdirectory (except
  563. for CVS-directories) for you. Only place one build.xml file in
  564. the top and call target &apos;setup&apos; or
  565. &apos;rescan&apos;.</p>
  566. <table class="externals">
  567. <tr>
  568. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  569. <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
  570. </tr>
  571. <tr>
  572. <th>URL:</th>
  573. <td><a href="http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/">http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/</a></td>
  574. </tr>
  575. <tr>
  576. <th>Contact:</th>
  577. <td><a href="mailto:lemval@dsdelft.nl">M.J.P. van Leeuwen</a></td>
  578. </tr>
  579. <tr>
  580. <th>License:</th>
  581. <td>License derived from Apache Software License</td>
  582. </tr>
  583. </table>
  584. </subsection>
  585. <subsection name="CVSGrab">
  586. <p>A little CVS client that can be useful when people are
  587. behind corporate firewall that blocks any cvs
  588. communications. It uses the ViewCVS web interface to access
  589. the CVS repository via standard http, and downloads all the
  590. files present in it.</p>
  591. <p>It works from the command line or as an Ant task.</p>
  592. <table class="externals">
  593. <tr>
  594. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  595. <td>Ant 1.3 or higher</td>
  596. </tr>
  597. <tr>
  598. <th>URL:</th>
  599. <td><a href="http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net/">http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  600. </tr>
  601. <tr>
  602. <th>Contact:</th>
  603. <td><a href="mailto:cvsgrab-users@lists.sourceforge.net">CVSGrab
  604. user mailing list</a></td>
  605. </tr>
  606. <tr>
  607. <th>License:</th>
  608. <td>LGPL</td>
  609. </tr>
  610. </table>
  611. </subsection>
  612. <subsection name="Dependencies">
  613. <p>The dependencies task manages a set of external dependencies which
  614. may be downloaded from a remote repository,
  615. such as ibiblio.org. Uses a local cache to avoid repeated
  616. downloads.</p>
  617. <table class="externals">
  618. <tr>
  619. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  620. <td>Tested with 1.5.1, should work with 1.4+.</td>
  621. </tr>
  622. <tr>
  623. <th>URL:</th>
  624. <td><a href="http://www.httpunit.org/doc/dependencies.html">http://www.httpunit.org/doc/dependencies.html</a></td>
  625. </tr>
  626. <tr>
  627. <th>Contact:</th>
  628. <td><a href="mailto:russgold@httpunit.org">Russell Gold</a></td>
  629. </tr>
  630. <tr>
  631. <th>License:</th>
  632. <td>MIT License</td>
  633. </tr>
  634. </table>
  635. </subsection>
  636. <subsection name="Dependency Finder">
  637. <p>Dependency Finder extracts dependencies and OO metrics from
  638. Java class files produced by most Java compilers. It can compute
  639. API differences between versions; no sources needed. It includes
  640. Ant tasks, web, Swing, and command-line interfaces, with XSL
  641. stylesheets for formatting output.</p>
  642. <p>You can use it to extract dependencies between packages, classes,
  643. or even methods, or any combination thereof. You can use Perl
  644. regular expressions to filter the information and pinpoint only
  645. what you need. There is even a Web Application version (WAR file)
  646. so a whole group of developers can share a common view.</p>
  647. <table class="externals">
  648. <tr>
  649. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  650. <td>Tested with 1.5.3, should work with 1.4+.</td>
  651. </tr>
  652. <tr>
  653. <th>URL:</th>
  654. <td><a href="http://depfind.sourceforge.net/">http://depfind.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  655. </tr>
  656. <tr>
  657. <th>Contact:</th>
  658. <td><a href="mailto:jeantessier@users.sourceforge.net">Jean Tessier</a></td>
  659. </tr>
  660. <tr>
  661. <th>License:</th>
  662. <td>BSD-like License</td>
  663. </tr>
  664. </table>
  665. </subsection>
  666. <subsection name="Doxygen task">
  667. <p>There are two Ant tasks for running the Doxygen
  668. documentation system.</p>
  669. <table class="externals">
  670. <tr>
  671. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  672. <td>Ant 1.1 and later</td>
  673. </tr>
  674. <tr>
  675. <th>URL:</th>
  676. <td><a href="http://www.bgw.org/projects/java/ant/">http://www.bgw.org/projects/java/ant/</a></td>
  677. </tr>
  678. <tr>
  679. <th>Contact:</th>
  680. <td><a href="mailto:mortis@voicenet.com">Kyle R. Burton</a></td>
  681. </tr>
  682. <tr>
  683. <th>License:</th>
  684. <td>Apache Software Foundation License</td>
  685. </tr>
  686. </table>
  687. <p>and</p>
  688. <table class="externals">
  689. <tr>
  690. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  691. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  692. </tr>
  693. <tr>
  694. <th>URL:</th>
  695. <td><a href="http://ant-doxygen.sourceforge.net/">http://ant-doxygen.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  696. </tr>
  697. <tr>
  698. <th>Contact:</th>
  699. <td><a href="mailto:akkumar@users.sourceforge.net">Karthik A Kumar</a></td>
  700. </tr>
  701. <tr>
  702. <th>License:</th>
  703. <td>Apache Software Foundation License</td>
  704. </tr>
  705. </table>
  706. </subsection>
  707. <subsection name="DTDDoc">
  708. <p>DTDDoc is here to help you to document your DTD's efficiently. It is a
  709. straightforward extension of the javadoc concept to the DTD file format.</p>
  710. <table class="externals">
  711. <tr>
  712. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  713. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  714. </tr>
  715. <tr>
  716. <th>URL:</th>
  717. <td><a href="http://dtddoc.sourceforge.net/">http://dtddoc.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  718. </tr>
  719. <tr>
  720. <th>Contact:</th>
  721. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=53704">Project Mailing List</a></td>
  722. </tr>
  723. <tr>
  724. <th>License:</th>
  725. <td>X11 (Open Source)</td>
  726. </tr>
  727. </table>
  728. </subsection>
  729. <subsection name="EMMA">
  730. <p>EMMA is an open-source toolkit for measuring and reporting
  731. Java code coverage. EMMA distinguishes itself from other tools
  732. by going after a unique feature combination: support large-scale
  733. enterprise software development while keeping individual developers
  734. work fast and iterative at the same time.</p>
  735. <table class="externals">
  736. <tr>
  737. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  738. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  739. </tr>
  740. <tr>
  741. <th>URL:</th>
  742. <td><a href="http://emma.sourceforge.net/">http://emma.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  743. </tr>
  744. <tr>
  745. <th>Contact:</th>
  746. <td><a href="mailto:emma-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Mailinglist</a></td>
  747. </tr>
  748. <tr>
  749. <th>License:</th>
  750. <td>Common Public License 1.0</td>
  751. </tr>
  752. </table>
  753. </subsection>
  754. <subsection name="FMPP">
  755. <p>FMPP is a general-purpose text file preprocessor tool that
  756. uses FreeMarker templates. It is particularly designed for
  757. HTML preprocessor, for the generation of complete (static)
  758. homepages: directory structure that contains HTML-s, image
  759. files, etc. But of course it can be used to generate source
  760. code or whatever text files. FMPP is extendable with Java
  761. classes to pull data from any data sources (XML file,
  762. database, etc.) and embed the data into the generated
  763. files.</p>
  764. <table class="externals">
  765. <tr>
  766. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  767. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  768. </tr>
  769. <tr>
  770. <th>URL:</th>
  771. <td><a href="http://fmpp.sourceforge.net/">http://fmpp.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  772. </tr>
  773. <tr>
  774. <th>License:</th>
  775. <td>BSD License</td>
  776. </tr>
  777. </table>
  778. </subsection>
  779. <subsection name="GenJar">
  780. <p>Builds a JAR file based on class dependencies rather than simply the contents of a directory</p>
  781. <table class="externals">
  782. <tr>
  783. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  784. <td>Ant 1.4 alpha (built after 2001/08/04) and later</td>
  785. </tr>
  786. <tr>
  787. <th>URL:</th>
  788. <td><a href="http://genjar.sourceforge.net/">http://genjar.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  789. </tr>
  790. <tr>
  791. <th>Contact:</th>
  792. <td><a href="mailto:jesse_dev@yahoo.com">Jesse Stockall</a></td>
  793. </tr>
  794. <tr>
  795. <th>License:</th>
  796. <td>Apache Software Foundation License</td>
  797. </tr>
  798. </table>
  799. </subsection>
  800. <subsection name="Grand">
  801. <p>Grand is a set of tools to create a visual representation of Ant target
  802. dependencies. It works by taking an Ant build file and creating a "dot" file. It
  803. differs from the existing tools by relying on the Ant API rather than XML parsing to
  804. get the dependencies. It includes many advanced features such as filtering or
  805. rendering depending on the target's nature. Also features a SWT based GUI.</p>
  806. <table class="externals">
  807. <tr>
  808. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  809. <td>Ant 1.6 and later</td>
  810. </tr>
  811. <tr>
  812. <th>URL:</th>
  813. <td><a href="http://www.ggtools.net/grand/">http://www.ggtools.net/grand/</a></td>
  814. </tr>
  815. <tr>
  816. <th>Contact:</th>
  817. <td>Christophe Labouisse</td>
  818. </tr>
  819. <tr>
  820. <th>License:</th>
  821. <td>BSD License</td>
  822. </tr>
  823. </table>
  824. </subsection>
  825. <subsection name="Greebo">
  826. <p>Greebo is an Ant-task for downloading dependency files
  827. (currently only jars) from a network to a specified directory,
  828. much like Maven. It supports multiple local and remote
  829. repositories with either flat or maven-like structures. It can
  830. read the dependency list from a Maven project file, a
  831. maven-like dependency file, or directly from the build.xml
  832. file.</p>
  833. <table class="externals">
  834. <tr>
  835. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  836. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  837. </tr>
  838. <tr>
  839. <th>URL:</th>
  840. <td><a href="http://greebo.sourceforge.net/">http://greebo.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  841. </tr>
  842. <tr>
  843. <th>Contact:</th>
  844. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=73733">project mailing lists</a></td>
  845. </tr>
  846. <tr>
  847. <th>License:</th>
  848. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  849. </tr>
  850. </table>
  851. </subsection>
  852. <subsection name="GroboUtils CodeCoverage">
  853. <p>The CodeCoverage sub-project of GroboUtils provides a 100%
  854. pure Java code coverage tool. It uses pre-execution class file
  855. recompilation, and generates XML files containing the coverage
  856. statistics. It does not require any advanced VM setup to generate
  857. coverage numbers.
  858. </p>
  859. <table class="externals">
  860. <tr>
  861. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  862. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  863. </tr>
  864. <tr>
  865. <th>URL:</th>
  866. <td><a href="http://groboutils.sourceforge.net/codecoverage/">http://groboutils.sourceforge.net/codecoverage/</a></td>
  867. </tr>
  868. <tr>
  869. <th>Contact:</th>
  870. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=22594">project mailing lists</a></td>
  871. </tr>
  872. <tr>
  873. <th>License:</th>
  874. <td>MIT License</td>
  875. </tr>
  876. </table>
  877. </subsection>
  878. <subsection name="Hammurapi">
  879. <p>Java code review tool. Performs automated code
  880. review. Contains 111 inspectors which check different aspects
  881. of code quality including coding standards, EJB, threading,
  882. ...</p>
  883. <table class="externals">
  884. <tr>
  885. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  886. <td>Tested with Ant 1.5 and 1.5.2</td>
  887. </tr>
  888. <tr>
  889. <th>URL:</th>
  890. <td><a href="http://www.hammurapi.org">http://www.hammurapi.org</a></td>
  891. </tr>
  892. <tr>
  893. <th>Contact:</th>
  894. <td><a href="http://www.hammurapi.org/content/menu.show@id=Hammurapi.4.html">Project's Contact Page</a></td>
  895. </tr>
  896. <tr>
  897. <th>License:</th>
  898. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL)</td>
  899. </tr>
  900. </table>
  901. </subsection>
  902. <subsection name="IDLDepend">
  903. <p>idldepend is a task that (re)generates Java sources to be
  904. created from CORBA/IDL files.</p>
  905. <p>It parses the IDL file and determines the Java files that
  906. must be generated, taking in account the modifications that
  907. can happen due to command line parameters. If any of the Java
  908. files are missing or older than the source IDL specification,
  909. it launches the specified compiler. The compilers of Orbacus,
  910. Jacorb, OpenORB, Orbix2k and Sun'JDK distributions are
  911. supported.</p>
  912. <p>To speed up the process and avoid unnecesary re-parsing, it
  913. keeps the dependencies in intermediate files. This task does
  914. not launch the javac compiler as well, that is, its output are
  915. Java files and not the final bytecode.</p>
  916. <table class="externals">
  917. <tr>
  918. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  919. <td>Ant 1.4 or later</td>
  920. </tr>
  921. <tr>
  922. <th>URL:</th>
  923. <td><a href="http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/~luismi/idldepend/">http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/~luismi/idldepend/</a></td>
  924. </tr>
  925. <tr>
  926. <th>Contact:</th>
  927. <td><a href="mailto:luismpena@gmx.net">luismpena@gmx.net</a></td>
  928. </tr>
  929. <tr>
  930. <th>License:</th>
  931. <td>free source, no license restrictions</td>
  932. </tr>
  933. </table>
  934. </subsection>
  935. <subsection name="Image">
  936. <p>Image task generates and transforms images. It exposes the
  937. imaging capability available in Java2D, Java Advanced Imaging,
  938. ImageIO, etc., as set of nested elements.</p>
  939. <p>Image transformations such as &quot;resize&quot;
  940. (scale),&quot;overlay&quot; (one image on another),
  941. &quot;border&quot; (add a border), &quot;text&quot; (text on
  942. image), &quot;crop&quot; (a sub-image of a bigger image),
  943. &quot;rotate&quot;, &quot;grayscale&quot; (change a color
  944. image to shades of gray).<br/>
  945. Now it supports transparency (making images translucent), a
  946. bestfit option for Resize, simple support for images within
  947. a security-constraint, a preliminary support (if pjatools.jar
  948. is available) for saving files as GIF and some other fixes.</p>
  949. <p>IMPORTANT: You will need the PMIW (Poor Man's Imaging Wrapper) jar
  950. for all the operations and the pjatools jar for GIF encoding/ saving
  951. support.</p>
  952. <table class="externals">
  953. <tr>
  954. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  955. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  956. </tr>
  957. <tr>
  958. <th>URL:</th>
  959. <td><a
  960. href="http://www.mullassery.com/software/ANT/">http://www.mullassery.com/software/ANT/</a></td>
  961. </tr>
  962. <tr>
  963. <th>pmiw jar</th>
  964. <td><a
  965. href="http://www.mullassery.com/software/PMIW/">http://www.mullassery.com/software/PMIW/</a>
  966. (Poor Man's Imaging Wrapper)</td>
  967. </tr>
  968. <tr>
  969. <th>pjatools jar</th>
  970. <td><a
  971. href="http://www.eteks.com/pja/en/">http://www.eteks.com/pja/en/</a>
  972. (pjatools for GIF encoding support)</td>
  973. </tr>
  974. <tr>
  975. <th>Contact:</th>
  976. <td><a href="http://www.mullassery.com">Abey Mullassery</a></td>
  977. </tr>
  978. <tr>
  979. <th>License:</th>
  980. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  981. </tr>
  982. </table>
  983. </subsection>
  984. <subsection name="Importscrubber">
  985. <p>Removes unnecessary import statements from a Java source code file.</p>
  986. <table class="externals">
  987. <tr>
  988. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  989. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  990. </tr>
  991. <tr>
  992. <th>URL:</th>
  993. <td><a href="http://importscrubber.sourceforge.net/">http://importscrubber.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  994. </tr>
  995. <tr>
  996. <th>Contact:</th>
  997. <td><a href="mailto:tomcopeland@users.sourceforge.net">Tom Copeland</a></td>
  998. </tr>
  999. <tr>
  1000. <th>License:</th>
  1001. <td>LGPL</td>
  1002. </tr>
  1003. </table>
  1004. </subsection>
  1005. <subsection name="ImTask">
  1006. <p>ImTask is a task to allow one to send an Instant
  1007. Message. Currently supports yahoo!, AIM, and Jabber</p>
  1008. <table class="externals">
  1009. <tr>
  1010. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1011. <td>Ant 1.5 or higher</td>
  1012. </tr>
  1013. <tr>
  1014. <th>URL:</th>
  1015. <td><a href="http://imtask.sourceforge.net/">http://imtask.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  1016. </tr>
  1017. <tr>
  1018. <th>Contact:</th>
  1019. <td><a href="mailto:djallstar@users.sourceforge.net">Jon Madison</a></td>
  1020. </tr>
  1021. <tr>
  1022. <th>License:</th>
  1023. <td>GNU LGPL</td>
  1024. </tr>
  1025. </table>
  1026. </subsection>
  1027. <subsection name="Incanto">
  1028. <p>Ant tasks to provide support for Oracle database tools
  1029. (such as SQL*Plus, Import, Export)</p>
  1030. <table class="externals">
  1031. <tr>
  1032. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1033. <td>Ant 1.6</td>
  1034. </tr>
  1035. <tr>
  1036. <th>URL:</th>
  1037. <td><a href="http://incanto.sourceforge.net/">http://incanto.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1038. </tr>
  1039. <tr>
  1040. <th>Contact:</th>
  1041. <td><a href="mailto:alexrk@users.sourceforge.net">Alexander Karnstedt</a></td>
  1042. </tr>
  1043. <tr>
  1044. <th>License:</th>
  1045. <td>Apache License, Version 2.0</td>
  1046. </tr>
  1047. </table>
  1048. </subsection>
  1049. <subsection name="IsDirValidator">
  1050. <p>Checks whether a given directory structure conforms to
  1051. certain rules that are defined via nested elements of the
  1052. task.</p>
  1053. <table class="externals">
  1054. <tr>
  1055. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1056. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  1057. </tr>
  1058. <tr>
  1059. <th>URL:</th>
  1060. <td><a href="http://isvalidator.sourceforge.net/en/isDirValidator.htm">http://isvalidator.sourceforge.net/en/isDirValidator.htm</a></td>
  1061. </tr>
  1062. <tr>
  1063. <th>Contact:</th>
  1064. <td><a href="mailto:news@inigoserrano.com">I&#xF1;igo Serrano</a></td>
  1065. </tr>
  1066. <tr>
  1067. <th>License:</th>
  1068. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1069. </tr>
  1070. </table>
  1071. </subsection>
  1072. <subsection name="Ivy">
  1073. <p>Ivy is a simple yet powerful dependency manager featuring
  1074. continuous integration, dependencies of dependencies
  1075. management, multiple repositories including ibiblio and high
  1076. performance (use of a local cache).</p>
  1077. <table class="externals">
  1078. <tr>
  1079. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1080. <td>1.5.1 or superior</td>
  1081. </tr>
  1082. <tr>
  1083. <th>URL:</th>
  1084. <td><a href="http://ivy.jayasoft.org/">http://ivy.jayasoft.org/</a></td>
  1085. </tr>
  1086. <tr>
  1087. <th>Contact:</th>
  1088. <td>contact at jayasoft dot org</td>
  1089. </tr>
  1090. <tr>
  1091. <th>License:</th>
  1092. <td>BSD License</td>
  1093. </tr>
  1094. </table>
  1095. </subsection>
  1096. <subsection name="J2ME Ant Tasks">
  1097. <p>There are different sets of tasks to help build <a
  1098. href="http://java.sun.com/j2me/">Java 2 Platform, Micro
  1099. Edition</a> (J2ME) applications.</p>
  1100. <subsubsection name="Antenna">
  1101. <p>Antenna provides a set of Ant tasks suitable for developing
  1102. wireless Java applications targeted at the Mobile Information
  1103. Device Profile (MIDP). With Antenna, you can compile,
  1104. preverify, package, obfuscate, and run your MIDP applications
  1105. (aka MIDlets), manipulate Java Application Descriptor (JAD)
  1106. files, as well as convert JAR files to PRC files designed to
  1107. run on MIDP for Palm OS. Deployment is supported via a
  1108. deployment task and a corresponding HTTP servlet for
  1109. Over-the-Air (OTA) provisioning. A small preprocessor allows
  1110. to generate different variants of a MIDlet from a single
  1111. source.</p>
  1112. <table class="externals">
  1113. <tr>
  1114. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1115. <td>Ant 1.4.1 or later</td>
  1116. </tr>
  1117. <tr>
  1118. <th>URL:</th>
  1119. <td><a href="http://antenna.sourceforge.net/">http://antenna.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1120. </tr>
  1121. <tr>
  1122. <th>Contact:</th>
  1123. <td><a href="mailto:joerg@pleumann.de">J&#xF6;rg Pleumann</a></td>
  1124. </tr>
  1125. <tr>
  1126. <th>License:</th>
  1127. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td>
  1128. </tr>
  1129. </table>
  1130. </subsubsection>
  1131. <subsubsection name="Antic">
  1132. <p>Antic is a freely available task for packaging J2ME
  1133. applications. It produces both the Jar and Jad files in a
  1134. single step. This allows *all* entries to be correclty set in
  1135. the jad file, including the size of the jar file that is
  1136. produced. This task has been used and tested extensively with
  1137. Sun's Wireless Toolkit and also the Nokia SDK and
  1138. emulators.</p>
  1139. <table class="externals">
  1140. <tr>
  1141. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1142. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  1143. </tr>
  1144. <tr>
  1145. <th>URL:</th>
  1146. <td><a href="http://www.smartkey.co.uk/tools/antic/antic.html">http://www.smartkey.co.uk/tools/antic/antic.html</a>
  1147. </td>
  1148. </tr>
  1149. <tr>
  1150. <th>Contact:</th>
  1151. <td><a href="mailto:support@smartkey.co.uk">smartkey.co.uk</a></td>
  1152. </tr>
  1153. <tr>
  1154. <th>License:</th>
  1155. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1156. </tr>
  1157. </table>
  1158. </subsubsection>
  1159. <subsubsection name="Dave's J2ME Tasks">
  1160. <p>This set supports CLDC and the K Virtual Machine (KVM):</p>
  1161. <table class="externals">
  1162. <tr>
  1163. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1164. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  1165. </tr>
  1166. <tr>
  1167. <th>URL:</th>
  1168. <td><a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/">http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/</a></td>
  1169. </tr>
  1170. <tr>
  1171. <th>Contact:</th>
  1172. <td><a href="mailto:drib@enteract.com">Dave Dribin</a></td>
  1173. </tr>
  1174. <tr>
  1175. <th>License:</th>
  1176. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  1177. </tr>
  1178. </table>
  1179. </subsubsection>
  1180. <subsubsection name="J2ME Polish">
  1181. <p>J2ME Polish is an Ant-based tool for the creation of
  1182. MIDP applications. It covers the whole circle of preprocessing, compiling,
  1183. obfuscation, preverifying, packaging and JAD-creation. J2ME Polish is
  1184. ideal for creating device optimized applications with its powerful
  1185. preprocessing capabilities and the integrated device database.
  1186. With J2ME Polish no hardcoded values are needed and the portability of an
  1187. application is not sacrificed, even though highly optimized applications are
  1188. created from a single source.
  1189. <br/>
  1190. It contains a logging framework and an optional MIDP-compatible GUI
  1191. which can be designed using the web-standard CSS. With the J2ME Polish GUI
  1192. you can even use MIDP/2.0 features on MIDP/1.0 phones.
  1193. </p>
  1194. <table class="externals">
  1195. <tr>
  1196. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1197. <td>Ant 1.4.1 or later</td>
  1198. </tr>
  1199. <tr>
  1200. <th>URL:</th>
  1201. <td><a
  1202. href="http://www.j2mepolish.org/">http://www.j2mepolish.org/</a></td>
  1203. </tr>
  1204. <tr>
  1205. <th>Contact:</th>
  1206. <td><a href="mailto:j2mepolish@enough.de">Enough Software</a></td>
  1207. </tr>
  1208. <tr>
  1209. <th>License:</th>
  1210. <td>GNU General Public License; commercial licenses available</td>
  1211. </tr>
  1212. </table>
  1213. </subsubsection>
  1214. <subsubsection name="Stampysoft's J2ME Tasks">
  1215. <p>And this set works with the J2ME Wireless Toolkit and MIDP
  1216. for PalmOS:</p>
  1217. <table class="externals">
  1218. <tr>
  1219. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1220. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  1221. </tr>
  1222. <tr>
  1223. <th>URL:</th>
  1224. <td><a href="http://www.stampysoft.com/ant/">http://www.stampysoft.com/ant/</a></td>
  1225. </tr>
  1226. <tr>
  1227. <th>Contact:</th>
  1228. <td><a href="mailto:jeckels@stampysoft.com">Josh Eckels</a></td>
  1229. </tr>
  1230. <tr>
  1231. <th>License:</th>
  1232. <td>MIT License</td>
  1233. </tr>
  1234. </table>
  1235. </subsubsection>
  1236. </subsection>
  1237. <subsection name="Jacson">
  1238. <p>Jacson is a configurable and plugable tool (much like Ant
  1239. itself) to create filters for text (line based) files without
  1240. programming.</p>
  1241. <table class="externals">
  1242. <tr>
  1243. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1244. <td>Jacson has been used and tested with 1.5.1, should
  1245. work with 1.4+</td>
  1246. </tr>
  1247. <tr>
  1248. <th>URL:</th>
  1249. <td><a href="http://jacson.sourceforge.net/">http://jacson.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1250. </tr>
  1251. <tr>
  1252. <th>Contact:</th>
  1253. <td><a href="mailto:jacson-user@lists.sourceforge.de">jacson-user@lists.sourceforge.de</a></td>
  1254. </tr>
  1255. <tr>
  1256. <th>License:</th>
  1257. <td>GNU Library or Lesser General Public License</td>
  1258. </tr>
  1259. </table>
  1260. </subsection>
  1261. <subsection name="Jalopy">
  1262. <p>An Ant Plug-in for the Java Source Code Formatter
  1263. Jalopy.</p>
  1264. <table class="externals">
  1265. <tr>
  1266. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1267. <td>Ant 1.4 (or higher)</td>
  1268. </tr>
  1269. <tr>
  1270. <th>URL:</th>
  1271. <td><a href="http://jalopy.sourceforge.net/">http://jalopy.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1272. </tr>
  1273. <tr>
  1274. <th>Contact:</th>
  1275. <td><a href="http://jalopy.sf.net/contact.html">http://jalopy.sf.net/contact.html</a></td>
  1276. </tr>
  1277. <tr>
  1278. <th>License:</th>
  1279. <td>Starting with release 1.0 Beta 6 the license is the
  1280. BSD License. Prior releases were under the GNU General
  1281. Public License.</td>
  1282. </tr>
  1283. </table>
  1284. </subsection>
  1285. <subsection name="JarBundler">
  1286. <p>JarBundler is a task that generates Mac OS X native Java
  1287. Application Bundles. It is fully configurable and can be used
  1288. to generate Mac OS X application bundles from any supported
  1289. Java platform, making it ideal for targeting multiple
  1290. platforms with one build.</p>
  1291. <table class="externals">
  1292. <tr>
  1293. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1294. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  1295. </tr>
  1296. <tr>
  1297. <th>URL:</th>
  1298. <td><a href="http://www.loomcom.com/jarbundler/">http://www.loomcom.com/jarbundler/</a></td>
  1299. </tr>
  1300. <tr>
  1301. <th>Contact:</th>
  1302. <td><a href="mailto:sethm@loomcom.com">Seth Morabito</a></td>
  1303. </tr>
  1304. <tr>
  1305. <th>License:</th>
  1306. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1307. </tr>
  1308. </table>
  1309. </subsection>
  1310. <subsection name="JarPatch">
  1311. <p>JarPatch is a task that generates a zip file resulting of
  1312. the diff between the content of 2 jar files.</p>
  1313. <p>The resulting diff file can be use as a patch for a
  1314. previous installation (just ensure that the generated
  1315. patch.zip file is located on the CLASSPATH before the patched
  1316. oldJar jar file)</p>
  1317. <table class="externals">
  1318. <tr>
  1319. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1320. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  1321. </tr>
  1322. <tr>
  1323. <th>URL:</th>
  1324. <td><a
  1325. href="http://perso.club-internet.fr/sjobic/ant/">http://perso.club-internet.fr/sjobic/ant/</a></td>
  1326. </tr>
  1327. <tr>
  1328. <th>Contact:</th>
  1329. <td><a href="mailto:norbert.barbosa@laposte.net">Norbert Barbosa</a></td>
  1330. </tr>
  1331. <tr>
  1332. <th>License:</th>
  1333. <td>LGPL License</td>
  1334. </tr>
  1335. </table>
  1336. </subsection>
  1337. <subsection name="Java+ Precompile Task">
  1338. <p>Java+ is an open source Java preprocessor that adds these
  1339. features to any Java compiler:</p>
  1340. <ul>
  1341. <li>Multi-line strings with executable inclusions like Perl
  1342. and Ruby. It eliminates the need for JSP or ASP and their
  1343. need for Java compilers on deployment servers (a security
  1344. concern) while adding no overhead in either space or
  1345. time. </li>
  1346. <li>Optionally supports localization by segregating Java+
  1347. strings into ResourceBundle files with invarient keys based
  1348. on the hash code of the strings's value. This is handled
  1349. automatically and transparently; no intervention is
  1350. required.</li>
  1351. <li>Fast. Negligible impact on build times. By default,
  1352. skips inputs whose outputs are up to date to avoid
  1353. triggering recompilations.</li>
  1354. <li>Pure Java code, portable to any platform, with
  1355. graphical, shell and ant interfaces.</li>
  1356. <li>Simple, general, recursive, digraph-driven string
  1357. syntax. Digraph characters are user-selectable.</li>
  1358. </ul>
  1359. <table class="externals">
  1360. <tr>
  1361. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1362. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  1363. </tr>
  1364. <tr>
  1365. <th>URL:</th>
  1366. <td><a href="http://virtualschool.edu/java+/">http://virtualschool.edu/java+/</a></td>
  1367. </tr>
  1368. <tr>
  1369. <th>Contact:</th>
  1370. <td><a href="mailto:bcox@virtualschool.edu">Brad Cox</a></td>
  1371. </tr>
  1372. <tr>
  1373. <th>License:</th>
  1374. <td>BSD-like License</td>
  1375. </tr>
  1376. </table>
  1377. </subsection>
  1378. <subsection name="Java2Html">
  1379. <p>There are two different tools both named Java2HTML that
  1380. process Java source code and generate syntax highlighted
  1381. documentation from it. Both include Ant tasks to run
  1382. them.</p>
  1383. <p>Java2Html library for converting java source files
  1384. or snipplets to syntax highlighted html, rtf, tex and
  1385. others.</p>
  1386. <table class="externals">
  1387. <tr>
  1388. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1389. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  1390. </tr>
  1391. <tr>
  1392. <th>URL:</th>
  1393. <td><a href="http://www.java2html.de/">http://www.java2html.de/</a></td>
  1394. </tr>
  1395. <tr>
  1396. <th>Contact:</th>
  1397. <td><a href="mailto:java2html@jave.de">java2html@jave.de</a></td>
  1398. </tr>
  1399. <tr>
  1400. <th>License:</th>
  1401. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1402. </tr>
  1403. </table>
  1404. <p>Java2HTML is a simple-to-use tool which converts a bunch of
  1405. Java Source Code into a colourized and browsable HTML
  1406. representation.</p>
  1407. <table class="externals">
  1408. <tr>
  1409. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1410. <td>1.5.1 onwards</td>
  1411. </tr>
  1412. <tr>
  1413. <th>URL:</th>
  1414. <td><a href="http://www.java2html.com/java2html_ant_task.html">http://www.java2html.com/java2html_ant_task.html</a></td>
  1415. </tr>
  1416. <tr>
  1417. <th>Contact:</th>
  1418. <td><a href="mailto:support@java2html.com">support@java2html.com</a></td>
  1419. </tr>
  1420. <tr>
  1421. <th>License:</th>
  1422. <td>FreeWare</td>
  1423. </tr>
  1424. </table>
  1425. </subsection>
  1426. <subsection name="Javamake">
  1427. <p>A task to compile Java sources and manage class file
  1428. dependencies. Functionality is equivalent to that of standard
  1429. Javac and Depend tasks combined, with improved dependency
  1430. checking.</p>
  1431. <table class="externals">
  1432. <tr>
  1433. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1434. <td>Ant 1.4.1</td>
  1435. </tr>
  1436. <tr>
  1437. <th>URL:</th>
  1438. <td><a href="http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html">http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html</a></td>
  1439. </tr>
  1440. <tr>
  1441. <th>Contact:</th>
  1442. <td><a href="mailto:Mikhail.Dmitriev@eng.sun.com">Mikhail Dmitriev</a></td>
  1443. </tr>
  1444. <tr>
  1445. <th>License:</th>
  1446. <td>BSD-like License</td>
  1447. </tr>
  1448. </table>
  1449. </subsection>
  1450. <subsection name="javarec">
  1451. <p>Ant tasks that generate record classes for VisualAge for
  1452. Java from Cobol copy books.</p>
  1453. <table class="externals">
  1454. <tr>
  1455. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1456. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  1457. </tr>
  1458. <tr>
  1459. <th>URL:</th>
  1460. <td><a href="http://glezen.org/javarec/">http://glezen.org/javarec/</a></td>
  1461. </tr>
  1462. <tr>
  1463. <th>Contact:</th>
  1464. <td><a href="mailto:pglezen@us.ibm.com">Paul Glezen</a></td>
  1465. </tr>
  1466. <tr>
  1467. <th>License:</th>
  1468. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  1469. </tr>
  1470. </table>
  1471. </subsection>
  1472. <subsection name="JCSC">
  1473. <p>JCSC is a Java Coding Standard Checker which also features
  1474. the generation of some code metrics. It is a command line tool
  1475. with an Ant task to scan whole package trees. The result can
  1476. viewed in an JavaDoc style web page.</p>
  1477. <table class="externals">
  1478. <tr>
  1479. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1480. <td>Ant &gt;= 1.5</td>
  1481. </tr>
  1482. <tr>
  1483. <th>URL:</th>
  1484. <td><a href="http://jcsc.sourceforge.net/">http://jcsc.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1485. </tr>
  1486. <tr>
  1487. <th>Contact:</th>
  1488. <td><a href="mailto:rjocham72@netscape.net">Ralph Jocham</a></td>
  1489. </tr>
  1490. <tr>
  1491. <th>License:</th>
  1492. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1493. </tr>
  1494. </table>
  1495. </subsection>
  1496. <subsection name="Jdiff">
  1497. <p>A task that generates an HTML report of all the packages, classes,
  1498. constructors, methods, and fields which have been removed, added or
  1499. changed in any way, including their documentation, when two APIs are
  1500. compared. </p>
  1501. <table class="externals">
  1502. <tr>
  1503. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1504. <td>Ant 1.6</td>
  1505. </tr>
  1506. <tr>
  1507. <th>URL:</th>
  1508. <td>
  1509. <a href="http://javadiff.sourceforge.net/" >
  1510. http://javadiff.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1511. </tr>
  1512. <tr>
  1513. <th>Task Documentation:</th>
  1514. <td>
  1515. <a
  1516. href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/javadiff/jdiff/jdiff.html?rev=HEAD&amp;content-type=text/html#JDiffAntTask"
  1517. >
  1518. (in CVS)</a></td>
  1519. </tr>
  1520. <tr>
  1521. <th>License:</th>
  1522. <td>LGPL</td>
  1523. </tr>
  1524. </table>
  1525. </subsection>
  1526. <subsection name="JFlex">
  1527. <p>JFlex is a lexical analyzer generator (also known as
  1528. scanner generator) for Java, written in Java.</p>
  1529. <table class="externals">
  1530. <tr>
  1531. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1532. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  1533. </tr>
  1534. <tr>
  1535. <th>URL:</th>
  1536. <td><a href="http://jflex.de/">http://jflex.de/</a></td>
  1537. </tr>
  1538. <tr>
  1539. <th>Contact:</th>
  1540. <td><a href="http://www.jflex.de/mailing.html">jflex-users mailing list</a></td>
  1541. </tr>
  1542. <tr>
  1543. <th>License:</th>
  1544. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL)</td>
  1545. </tr>
  1546. </table>
  1547. </subsection>
  1548. <subsection name="JindentTask">
  1549. <p>JindentTask is a very straightforward wrapping of the
  1550. Jindent tool, a vendor code beautifier. It enables to use
  1551. Jindent natively from Ant.</p>
  1552. <table class="externals">
  1553. <tr>
  1554. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1555. <td>Ant 1.4.1 and higher</td>
  1556. </tr>
  1557. <tr>
  1558. <th>URL:</th>
  1559. <td><a href="http://the.edouard.mercier.free.fr/Jindent_content.php">http://the.edouard.mercier.free.fr/Jindent_content.php</a></td>
  1560. </tr>
  1561. <tr>
  1562. <th>Contact:</th>
  1563. <td>Edouard Mercier</td>
  1564. </tr>
  1565. </table>
  1566. </subsection>
  1567. <subsection name="Jing Task">
  1568. <p> Validates XML files against the RELAX NG alternative to XML Schema.
  1569. The Jing task for Ant allows you to efficiently validate
  1570. multiple files against multiple RELAX NG patterns and integrate
  1571. RELAX NG validation with other XML processing.</p>
  1572. <table class="externals">
  1573. <tr>
  1574. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1575. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  1576. </tr>
  1577. <tr>
  1578. <th>URL:</th>
  1579. <td><a href="http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing-ant.html">
  1580. http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing-ant.html</a></td>
  1581. </tr>
  1582. <tr>
  1583. <th>License:</th>
  1584. <td>BSD-like</td>
  1585. </tr>
  1586. </table>
  1587. </subsection>
  1588. <subsection name="jMetra">
  1589. <p>jMetra is a tool for collecting code metrics across a
  1590. project lifecycle and compiling the results into
  1591. JavaDoc-styled documentation to analyze project metrics over
  1592. time. jMetra is best utilized by integrating it with your
  1593. project's scheduled build process.</p>
  1594. <p>It works from the command line or using several provided
  1595. Ant tasks.</p>
  1596. <table class="externals">
  1597. <tr>
  1598. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1599. <td>Ant 1.4 and higher</td>
  1600. </tr>
  1601. <tr>
  1602. <th>URL:</th>
  1603. <td>
  1604. <a href="http://www.jmetra.com/">http://www.jmetra.com/</a
  1605. >
  1606. </td>
  1607. </tr>
  1608. <tr>
  1609. <th>Contact:</th>
  1610. <td>
  1611. <a href="mailto:tnewton@hypercisioninc.com">R Todd Newton
  1612. </a>
  1613. </td>
  1614. </tr>
  1615. <tr>
  1616. <th>License:</th>
  1617. <td>Commercial, free licenses for open source projects and
  1618. evaluations.</td>
  1619. </tr>
  1620. </table>
  1621. </subsection>
  1622. <subsection name="JMX4Ant">
  1623. <p>JMX4Ant provides tasks for integration with JMX (Java Management
  1624. Extensions). It provides tasks for getting and setting attributes
  1625. of MBeans, invoking their methods and much more.</p>
  1626. <table class="externals">
  1627. <tr>
  1628. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1629. <td>Ant 1.4 and higher</td>
  1630. </tr>
  1631. <tr>
  1632. <th>URL:</th>
  1633. <td>
  1634. <a href="http://jmx4ant.sourceforge.net/">http://jmx4ant.sourceforge.net/</a>
  1635. </td>
  1636. </tr>
  1637. <tr>
  1638. <th>Contact:</th>
  1639. <td>
  1640. <a href="mailto:bdueck@yahoo.com">Brian Dueck</a>
  1641. </td>
  1642. </tr>
  1643. <tr>
  1644. <th>License:</th>
  1645. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  1646. </tr>
  1647. </table>
  1648. </subsection>
  1649. <subsection name="JNI">
  1650. <p>
  1651. JNI is a free toolkit that makes easy work of
  1652. integrating Java and C through the Java Native
  1653. Interface (JNI). It includes a code generator that
  1654. generates both Java "proxy" classes to access C
  1655. "peer" classes, and C "proxy" classes to access
  1656. Java "peer" classes or interfaces. It also
  1657. includes a core library with a simplified JVM
  1658. interface as well as "helper" classes to ease
  1659. working with the JNI data types. The code
  1660. generation is driven by an XML project file that
  1661. can be created with the assistance of the GUI
  1662. Project Manager. The code generation can be
  1663. invoked either from Ant or from the
  1664. GUI. Includes a comprehensive printable PDF User
  1665. Guide and plenty of examples.</p>
  1666. <table class="externals">
  1667. <tr>
  1668. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1669. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  1670. </tr>
  1671. <tr>
  1672. <th>URL:</th>
  1673. <td><a href="http://jnipp.sf.net/">http://jnipp.sf.net/</a></td>
  1674. </tr>
  1675. <tr>
  1676. <th>Contact:</th>
  1677. <td><a href="mailto:ptrewhella@users.sf.net">Phillip E. Trewhella</a></td>
  1678. </tr>
  1679. <tr>
  1680. <th>License:</th>
  1681. <td>GNU LGPL</td>
  1682. </tr>
  1683. </table>
  1684. </subsection>
  1685. <subsection name="JReleaseInfo">
  1686. <p>Sometimes you are interested at runtime to have information
  1687. from build time. This may be the build date, a build number or
  1688. the version. The JReleaseInfo Ant Task generates a java
  1689. source file with getter methods for any desired and provided
  1690. properties. Furthermore, it can automatically generate a
  1691. viewer (which can e.g. be used as main-class in a library jar
  1692. file) that shows the included release information.</p>
  1693. <table class="externals">
  1694. <tr>
  1695. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1696. <td>Ant 1.6 and later</td>
  1697. </tr>
  1698. <tr>
  1699. <th>URL:</th>
  1700. <td><a href="http://jreleaseinfo.sourceforge.net/">HomePage on SourceForge</a></td>
  1701. </tr>
  1702. <tr>
  1703. <th>Contact:</th>
  1704. <td><a
  1705. href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jreleaseinfo/">Forums/Tracker on SourceForge</a></td>
  1706. </tr>
  1707. <tr>
  1708. <th>License:</th>
  1709. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  1710. </tr>
  1711. </table>
  1712. </subsection>
  1713. <subsection name="JRun Ant Tasks">
  1714. <p>JRun 4 SP1 ships with lib/jrun-ant-tasks.jar, which defines
  1715. three Ant tasks: jrun, jrunapp, and jrunjmx. Documentation
  1716. for the tasks can be found in JRun under
  1717. docs/ant/jrun.html.</p>
  1718. <p>Note that the service pack must be installed on top of an
  1719. existing JRun 4 installation.</p>
  1720. <table class="externals">
  1721. <tr>
  1722. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1723. <td>Ant 1.4 or higher</td>
  1724. </tr>
  1725. <tr>
  1726. <th>URL:</th>
  1727. <td><a href="http://dynamic.macromedia.com/bin/MM/software/trial/hwswrec.jsp?product=jrun_sp">http://dynamic.macromedia.com/bin/MM/software/trial/hwswrec.jsp?product=jrun_sp</a></td>
  1728. </tr>
  1729. <tr>
  1730. <th>Contact:</th>
  1731. <td><a href="mailto:bdeitte@macromedia.com">Brian Deitte</a></td>
  1732. </tr>
  1733. <tr>
  1734. <th>License:</th>
  1735. <td>Commercial</td>
  1736. </tr>
  1737. </table>
  1738. </subsection>
  1739. <subsection name="JudoScript Ant Task">
  1740. <p>The &lt;judoscript&gt; task is an easy way to embed JudoScript
  1741. code in the Ant build script. The tag format is quite simple. You can
  1742. either embed code directly, or can specify an external JudoScript program
  1743. file as the <code>src</code> attribute value. Parameters can be specified
  1744. as the <code>params</code> attribute; this is applicable to both embedded
  1745. code and external files.
  1746. </p>
  1747. <table class="externals">
  1748. <tr>
  1749. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1750. <td>Ant 1.5 or higher</td>
  1751. </tr>
  1752. <tr>
  1753. <th>URL:</th>
  1754. <td><a
  1755. href="http://www.judoscript.com/articles/ant.html">http://www.judoscript.com/articles/ant.html</a></td>
  1756. </tr>
  1757. <tr>
  1758. <th>Contact:</th>
  1759. <td><a href="mailto:judoscript@hotmail.com">James Jianbo Huang</a></td>
  1760. </tr>
  1761. <tr>
  1762. <th>License:</th>
  1763. <td>Lesser GNU Public License</td>
  1764. </tr>
  1765. </table>
  1766. </subsection>
  1767. <subsection name="Just4log Ant Task">
  1768. <p>Just4log is a ant task to optimize JVM bytecode with regards
  1769. for Logs ( be it, Log4j, Apache Commons or JDK 1.4 )
  1770. It depends on apache BCEL for Bytecode engineering.</p>
  1771. <table class="externals">
  1772. <tr>
  1773. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1774. <td>Ant 1.5.2 or higher</td>
  1775. </tr>
  1776. <tr>
  1777. <th>URL:</th>
  1778. <td><a href="http://just4log.sourceforge.net">http://just4log.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  1779. </tr>
  1780. <tr>
  1781. <th>Contact:</th>
  1782. <td><a href="mailto:lbruand@wanadoo.fr">Lucas Bruand</a></td>
  1783. </tr>
  1784. <tr>
  1785. <th>License:</th>
  1786. <td>Apache License 1.1.</td>
  1787. </tr>
  1788. </table>
  1789. </subsection>
  1790. <subsection name="Kanaputs">
  1791. <p>Kanaputs is a parser for java based scripting. It is an
  1792. interpreter for Java. With Kanaputs you can use Java as an
  1793. interpreted language: no more compilation, each instruction is
  1794. executed when you write it. It is a small programmation
  1795. language to make script files above Java.</p>
  1796. <p>Kanaputs Ant Task provides a way to add any kind of
  1797. programmatic features in your Ant script. The code you insert
  1798. stays OS independent (because Kanaputs uses Java) and is
  1799. completely integrated with Ant as you can give Ant properties
  1800. to the Kanaputs code and get back the results in other
  1801. properties.</p>
  1802. <p>Moreover, as you can invoke any kind of Java code with
  1803. Kanaputs, you can popup windows from your Ant file to ask the
  1804. user to do a choice.</p>
  1805. <table class="externals">
  1806. <tr>
  1807. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1808. <td>Ant 1.2 and above</td>
  1809. </tr>
  1810. <tr>
  1811. <th>URL:</th>
  1812. <td>
  1813. <a href="http://www.kanaputs.org/">http://www.kanaputs.org/</a> <br/>
  1814. <a href="http://www.kanaputs.org/ant.html">http://www.kanaputs.org/ant.html</a>
  1815. </td>
  1816. </tr>
  1817. <tr>
  1818. <th>Contact:</th>
  1819. <td>
  1820. <a href="mailto:kfra@kanaputs.org">kfra@kanaputs.org</a>
  1821. </td>
  1822. </tr>
  1823. <tr>
  1824. <th>License:</th>
  1825. <td>Freeware</td>
  1826. </tr>
  1827. </table>
  1828. </subsection>
  1829. <subsection name="LaTeX Task">
  1830. <p>Simple Task to use (PDF)LaTeX, BibTeX, Makeindex and GlossTeX to
  1831. create your documentation.</p>
  1832. <table class="externals">
  1833. <tr>
  1834. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1835. <td>Ant 1.6.2 and above</td>
  1836. </tr>
  1837. <tr>
  1838. <th>URL:</th>
  1839. <td>
  1840. <a href="http://www.dokutransdata.de/">http://www.dokutransdata.de/</a><br/>
  1841. <a href="http://www.dokutransdata.de/ant_latex/">http://www.dokutransdata.de/ant_latex/</a>
  1842. </td>
  1843. </tr>
  1844. <tr>
  1845. <th>Contact:</th>
  1846. <td>
  1847. <a href="mailto:jaloma@dokutransdata.de">jaloma@dokutransdata.de</a>
  1848. </td>
  1849. </tr>
  1850. <tr>
  1851. <th>License:</th>
  1852. <td>Freeware</td>
  1853. </tr>
  1854. </table>
  1855. </subsection>
  1856. <subsection name="Macker">
  1857. <p>A build-time architectural testing tool, designed
  1858. to maintain clean layering / tiering / modularity.
  1859. Macker works against compiled class files, checking
  1860. dependencies between classes against a set of
  1861. pattern-based access rules you specify for your
  1862. project in an XML rules file. Macker doesn't presume
  1863. anything about your architecture -- you write the
  1864. rules, and Macker keeps you honest about them.</p>
  1865. <table class="externals">
  1866. <tr>
  1867. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1868. <td>Ant 1.5 and higher (1.4 untested but may work)</td>
  1869. </tr>
  1870. <tr>
  1871. <th>URL:</th>
  1872. <td><a href="http://innig.net/macker/">http://innig.net/macker/</a></td>
  1873. </tr>
  1874. <tr>
  1875. <th>Contact:</th>
  1876. <td><a href="http://innig.net/macker/contact.html">Paul Cantrell</a></td>
  1877. </tr>
  1878. <tr>
  1879. <th>License:</th>
  1880. <td>GNU GPL 2.0</td>
  1881. </tr>
  1882. </table>
  1883. </subsection>
  1884. <subsection name="mtxslt">
  1885. <p>The mtxslt (Multi-XSLT) extends the standard Ant "xslt/style" task
  1886. to make it easy to use multiple XSLT engines during the same build.
  1887. This is useful for regression testing of XSLT scripts against several
  1888. engines.</p>
  1889. <table class="externals">
  1890. <tr>
  1891. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1892. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  1893. </tr>
  1894. <tr>
  1895. <th>URL:</th>
  1896. <td><a href="http://mtxslt.sourceforge.net/">http://mtxslt.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1897. </tr>
  1898. <tr>
  1899. <th>Contact:</th>
  1900. <td><a href="mailto:abcoates@theOffice.net">Anthony B. Coates</a></td>
  1901. </tr>
  1902. <tr>
  1903. <th>License:</th>
  1904. <td>Apache Software Foundation License</td>
  1905. </tr>
  1906. </table>
  1907. </subsection>
  1908. <subsection name="nsd2LaTeX Task">
  1909. <p>Simple Task to use nsd2ltx to build your Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams.</p>
  1910. <table class="externals">
  1911. <tr>
  1912. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1913. <td>Ant 1.6.2 and above</td>
  1914. </tr>
  1915. <tr>
  1916. <th>URL:</th>
  1917. <td>
  1918. <a href="http://www.dokutransdata.de/">http://www.dokutransdata.de/</a><br/>
  1919. <a href="http://www.dokutransdata.de/ant_nsd2ltx/">http://www.dokutransdata.de/ant_nsd2ltx/</a>
  1920. </td>
  1921. </tr>
  1922. <tr>
  1923. <th>Contact:</th>
  1924. <td>
  1925. <a href="mailto:jaloma@dokutransdata.de">jaloma@dokutransdata.de</a>
  1926. </td>
  1927. </tr>
  1928. <tr>
  1929. <th>License:</th>
  1930. <td>Freeware</td>
  1931. </tr>
  1932. </table>
  1933. </subsection>
  1934. <subsection name="Nurflugel AntScript Visualizer">
  1935. <p>The Nurflugel AntScript Visualizer takes your build file,
  1936. finds any imported build files, and shows all relationships
  1937. between targets, taskdefs, macrodefs, Ant and Antcalls; output
  1938. options include PDF, SVG, and PNG. Many options including
  1939. grouping by build file, inclusion/exclusion of targets,
  1940. taskdefs, imports, etc. Installation is via Java WebStart, so
  1941. you'll always have the freshest version available.</p>
  1942. <table class="externals">
  1943. <tr>
  1944. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1945. <td>Ant 1.1 and later</td>
  1946. </tr>
  1947. <tr>
  1948. <th>URL:</th>
  1949. <td><a href="http://www.nurflugel.com/webstart/AntScriptVisualizer/">http://www.nurflugel.com/webstart/AntScriptVisualizer/</a></td>
  1950. </tr>
  1951. <tr>
  1952. <th>Contact:</th>
  1953. <td>dbullard &lt;at&gt; nurflugel &lt;dot&gt; com (email
  1954. will receive a challenge to weed out spam)</td>
  1955. </tr>
  1956. <tr>
  1957. <th>License:</th>
  1958. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1959. </tr>
  1960. </table>
  1961. </subsection>
  1962. <subsection name="Orangevolt Ant Tasks">
  1963. <p>Orangevolt ANT Tasks is a collection of Tasks for Apache
  1964. Ant.</p>
  1965. <p>The Orangevolt Ant Tasks collections provides a bunch of
  1966. Appplication Deployment related Tasks from windows specific
  1967. tasks (registry access, executable generation), *nix specific
  1968. tasks (kde/gnome shortcut generation) to many useful utility
  1969. tasks like jnlp generation.</p>
  1970. <table class="externals">
  1971. <tr>
  1972. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1973. <td>Ant 1.5 or above</td>
  1974. </tr>
  1975. <tr>
  1976. <th>URL:</th>
  1977. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ovanttasks">http://sourceforge.net/projects/ovanttasks</a></td>
  1978. </tr>
  1979. <tr>
  1980. <th>Contact:</th>
  1981. <td><a href="mailto:info@roxes.com">info@roxes.com</a></td>
  1982. </tr>
  1983. <tr>
  1984. <th>License:</th>
  1985. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL)</td>
  1986. </tr>
  1987. </table>
  1988. </subsection>
  1989. <subsection name="pack">
  1990. <p>pack is a task to build the smallest possible JAR to link
  1991. and run one or more classes.</p>
  1992. <table class="externals">
  1993. <tr>
  1994. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1995. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  1996. </tr>
  1997. <tr>
  1998. <th>URL:</th>
  1999. <td><a href="http://sadun-util.sourceforge.net/pack.html">http://sadun-util.sourceforge.net/pack.html</a></td>
  2000. </tr>
  2001. <tr>
  2002. <th>Contact:</th>
  2003. <td><a href="mailto:cristiano@xtractor.com">Cristiano Sadun</a></td>
  2004. </tr>
  2005. <tr>
  2006. <th>License:</th>
  2007. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td>
  2008. </tr>
  2009. </table>
  2010. </subsection>
  2011. <subsection name="PCT">
  2012. <p>PCT is a task to compile Progress code, and in a more general
  2013. way, to deal with Progress procedures and databases.</p>
  2014. <table class="externals">
  2015. <tr>
  2016. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2017. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  2018. </tr>
  2019. <tr>
  2020. <th>URL:</th>
  2021. <td><a href="http://pct.sourceforge.net">http://pct.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  2022. </tr>
  2023. <tr>
  2024. <th>Contact:</th>
  2025. <td><a href="mailto:justus_phenix@users.sourceforge.net">Gilles QUERRET</a></td>
  2026. </tr>
  2027. <tr>
  2028. <th>Licence:</th>
  2029. <td>Apache Software Foundation License</td>
  2030. </tr>
  2031. </table>
  2032. </subsection>
  2033. <subsection name="PesterCat Ant Toolkit">
  2034. <p>PesterCat is a web testing tool that was designed to
  2035. perform functional testing for web applications. The PesterCat
  2036. Ant Toolkit contains tasks to playback test scripts and create
  2037. HTML reports.
  2038. </p>
  2039. <table class="externals">
  2040. <tr>
  2041. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2042. <td>Ant 1.6 and later</td>
  2043. </tr>
  2044. <tr>
  2045. <th>URL:</th>
  2046. <td><a href="http://www.pestercat.com/">http://www.pestercat.com/</a></td>
  2047. </tr>
  2048. <tr>
  2049. <th>License:</th>
  2050. <td>Commercial</td>
  2051. </tr>
  2052. </table>
  2053. </subsection>
  2054. <subsection name="PMD">
  2055. <p>PMD checks Java source code for unused variables,
  2056. unnecessary object creation, etc</p>
  2057. <table class="externals">
  2058. <tr>
  2059. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2060. <td>Ant 1.4 and higher</td>
  2061. </tr>
  2062. <tr>
  2063. <th>URL:</th>
  2064. <td><a href="http://pmd.sf.net/">http://pmd.sf.net/</a></td>
  2065. </tr>
  2066. <tr>
  2067. <th>Contact:</th>
  2068. <td><a href="mailto:tcopeland@apache.org">Tom Copeland</a></td>
  2069. </tr>
  2070. <tr>
  2071. <th>License:</th>
  2072. <td>Apache Software Foundation License</td>
  2073. </tr>
  2074. </table>
  2075. </subsection>
  2076. <subsection name="PRes">
  2077. <p>PRes is short for Property Resources and will generate a Java source
  2078. file from name=value pair .property files which can be compiled like any
  2079. other class.</p>
  2080. <table class="externals">
  2081. <tr>
  2082. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2083. <td>Ant 1.5 and later (may work with earlier)</td>
  2084. </tr>
  2085. <tr>
  2086. <th>URL:</th>
  2087. <td><a href="http://mseries.sourceforge.net">http://mseries.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  2088. </tr>
  2089. <tr>
  2090. <th>Contact:</th>
  2091. <td><a href="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/mseries/contact.html">MSeries</a></td>
  2092. </tr>
  2093. <tr>
  2094. <th>License:</th>
  2095. <td>LGPL</td>
  2096. </tr>
  2097. </table>
  2098. </subsection>
  2099. <subsection name="ProGuard">
  2100. <p><a href="http://proguard.sourceforge.net/">ProGuard</a> is
  2101. a free Java class file shrinker and obfuscator. It can detect
  2102. and remove unused classes, fields, methods, and attributes. It
  2103. can then rename the remaining classes, fields, and methods
  2104. using short meaningless names.</p>
  2105. <table class="externals">
  2106. <tr>
  2107. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2108. <td>Tested with 1.5. Should work with all versions.</td>
  2109. </tr>
  2110. <tr>
  2111. <th>URL:</th>
  2112. <td>
  2113. <a href="http://proguard.sourceforge.net/">http://proguard.sourceforge.net/</a>
  2114. </td>
  2115. </tr>
  2116. <tr>
  2117. <th>Contact:</th>
  2118. <td>
  2119. <a href="http://proguard.sourceforge.net/feedback.html">Feedback Page</a>
  2120. </td>
  2121. </tr>
  2122. <tr>
  2123. <th>License:</th>
  2124. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  2125. </tr>
  2126. </table>
  2127. </subsection>
  2128. <subsection name="properties2java">
  2129. <p>Properties2Java is an Ant task for automatic conversion of
  2130. java ".properties" files to ".java" files extending the
  2131. java.util.ListResourceBundle.</p>
  2132. <table class="externals">
  2133. <tr>
  2134. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2135. <td>Ant 1.6 or above</td>
  2136. </tr>
  2137. <tr>
  2138. <th>URL:</th>
  2139. <td><a href="http://properties2java.jayefem.de/">http://properties2java.jayefem.de/</a></td>
  2140. </tr>
  2141. <tr>
  2142. <th>Contact:</th>
  2143. <td><a href="mailto:properties2java@jayefem.de">Jan-Friedrich Mutter</a></td>
  2144. </tr>
  2145. <tr>
  2146. <th>License:</th>
  2147. <td>Apache Software License 2.0</td>
  2148. </tr>
  2149. </table>
  2150. </subsection>
  2151. <subsection name="Purge">
  2152. <p>Purge deletes all but the most recent few files from a fileset.
  2153. For example: if you have generated files (logs, .ear, .war, .jar
  2154. etc) accumulating in a directory, the purge task will allow you
  2155. to delete the older files, keeping just the most recent ones.</p>
  2156. <table class="externals">
  2157. <tr>
  2158. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2159. <td>Ant 1.4 or above</td>
  2160. </tr>
  2161. <tr>
  2162. <th>URL:</th>
  2163. <td><a href="http://www.dallaway.com/ant/">http://www.dallaway.com/ant/</a></td>
  2164. </tr>
  2165. <tr>
  2166. <th>Contact:</th>
  2167. <td><a href="mailto:purge@dallaway.com">Richard Dallaway</a></td>
  2168. </tr>
  2169. <tr>
  2170. <th>License:</th>
  2171. <td>LGPL</td>
  2172. </tr>
  2173. </table>
  2174. </subsection>
  2175. <subsection name="RefactorIT">
  2176. <p>RefactorIT includes an Ant task for metrics and audits.
  2177. RefactorIT is a Java refactoring, audit and metrics tool.
  2178. It plugs into major Java IDEs, also runs stand-alone with
  2179. a GUI and a command line interface.</p>
  2180. <table class="externals">
  2181. <tr>
  2182. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2183. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  2184. </tr>
  2185. <tr>
  2186. <th>URL:</th>
  2187. <td><a href="http://www.refactorit.com/">http://www.refactorit.com/</a></td>
  2188. </tr>
  2189. <tr>
  2190. <th>Contact:</th>
  2191. <td><a href="mailto:support@refactorit.com">support@refactorit.com</a></td>
  2192. </tr>
  2193. <tr>
  2194. <th>License:</th>
  2195. <td>Commercial. (Free for accredited open source products, see
  2196. <a href="http://www.refactorit.com/osc">http://www.refactorit.com/osc</a>.)</td>
  2197. </tr>
  2198. </table>
  2199. </subsection>
  2200. <subsection name="Reflectant Task">
  2201. <p>This is a task for reflection invocation from within ant build file.</p>
  2202. <table class="externals">
  2203. <tr>
  2204. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2205. <td>Ant 1.5 or above</td>
  2206. </tr>
  2207. <tr>
  2208. <th>URL:</th>
  2209. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/reflectant/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/reflectant/</a></td>
  2210. </tr>
  2211. <tr>
  2212. <th>Contact:</th>
  2213. <td><a href="mailto:sv_ant@mail.bg">sv_ant@mail.bg</a></td>
  2214. </tr>
  2215. <tr>
  2216. <th>License:</th>
  2217. <td>The Apache Software License</td>
  2218. </tr>
  2219. </table>
  2220. </subsection>
  2221. <subsection name="rundoc">
  2222. <p>A task designed to help with the single-sourcing of program
  2223. documentation. Rundoc replaces special commands
  2224. (in the format <i>@@rundoc:command param1 param2...@@</i>) embedded
  2225. within text files with their output in a
  2226. specified format. Currently, only Docbook format is supported.</p>
  2227. <p>Rundoc was written to keep sample code output in program
  2228. documentation synchronized with the actual output
  2229. of the current code, by running the referenced code when the
  2230. documentation is built.</p>
  2231. <table class="externals">
  2232. <tr>
  2233. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2234. <td>Tested with 1.6 Should work with all versions.</td>
  2235. </tr>
  2236. <tr>
  2237. <th>URL:</th>
  2238. <td><a href="http://www.martiansoftware.com/lab/index.html#rundoc">http://www.martiansoftware.com/lab/index.html#rundoc</a></td>
  2239. </tr>
  2240. <tr>
  2241. <th>Contact:</th>
  2242. <td><a href="http://www.martiansoftware.com/contact.html">Marty Lamb</a></td>
  2243. </tr>
  2244. <tr>
  2245. <th>License:</th>
  2246. <td>Revised BSD</td>
  2247. </tr>
  2248. </table>
  2249. </subsection>
  2250. <subsection name="SerialVer">
  2251. <p>SerialVer adds the Java serialver functionality to Apache
  2252. Ant. This project adds Tasks and FilterReaders to get, to
  2253. insert and to modify the serialVersionUID in the source code
  2254. of a serializable class.</p>
  2255. <table class="externals">
  2256. <tr>
  2257. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2258. <td>Ant 1.5.1 and later</td>
  2259. </tr>
  2260. <tr>
  2261. <th>URL:</th>
  2262. <td><a href="http://serialver.sourceforge.net/">http://serialver.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  2263. </tr>
  2264. <tr>
  2265. <th>Contact:</th>
  2266. <td><a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/serialver-development">developer mailing list</a></td>
  2267. </tr>
  2268. <tr>
  2269. <th>License:</th>
  2270. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  2271. </tr>
  2272. </table>
  2273. </subsection>
  2274. <subsection name="Simian">
  2275. <p>Simian (Similarity Analyser) identifies duplication in Java,
  2276. C#, C, CPP, COBOL, JSP, HTML source code and even plain text files.</p>
  2277. <table class="externals">
  2278. <tr>
  2279. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2280. <td>Ant 1.5.1 and later</td>
  2281. </tr>
  2282. <tr>
  2283. <th>URL:</th>
  2284. <td><a href="http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/products/simian/">
  2285. http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/products/simian/</a></td>
  2286. </tr>
  2287. <tr>
  2288. <th>Contact:</th>
  2289. <td><a href="mailto:simian-user-subscribe@redhillconsulting.com.au">
  2290. simian-user-subscribe@redhillconsulting.com.au (User Mailinglist)
  2291. </a></td>
  2292. </tr>
  2293. <tr>
  2294. <th>License:</th>
  2295. <td>Commercial, Free Licenses available for Non-Commercial Projects</td>
  2296. </tr>
  2297. </table>
  2298. </subsection>
  2299. <subsection name="SmartAnalyzer">
  2300. <p>Powerful analysis of dependencies between Java classes.
  2301. Only affected classes will be recompiled and it can be used
  2302. with any bytecode compiler.</p>
  2303. <table class="externals">
  2304. <tr>
  2305. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2306. <td>Apache Ant version 1.5.1</td>
  2307. </tr>
  2308. <tr>
  2309. <th>URL:</th>
  2310. <td><a href="http://smartanalyzer.sourceforge.net/">http://smartanalyzer.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  2311. </tr>
  2312. <tr>
  2313. <th>Contact:</th>
  2314. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartanalyzer">support at sourceforge project page</a></td>
  2315. </tr>
  2316. <tr>
  2317. <th>License:</th>
  2318. <td>GNU General Public Licence (GPL)</td>
  2319. </tr>
  2320. </table>
  2321. </subsection>
  2322. <subsection name="snip">
  2323. <p>A task designed to help with the single-sourcing of program documentation.
  2324. Snip extracts snippets of text from files, placing them into properties in the Ant project.
  2325. These properties can then be used by any other Ant task, and are particularly useful when
  2326. referenced by &lt;filter&gt;s within the &lt;copy&gt; task.</p>
  2327. <p>Snip was originally written to keep snippets of sample code in API documentation synchronized
  2328. with the actual sample classes.</p>
  2329. <table class="externals">
  2330. <tr>
  2331. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2332. <td>Tested with 1.5.1. Should work with all versions.</td>
  2333. </tr>
  2334. <tr>
  2335. <th>URL:</th>
  2336. <td><a href="http://www.martiansoftware.com/lab/index.html#snip">http://www.martiansoftware.com/lab/index.html#snip</a></td>
  2337. </tr>
  2338. <tr>
  2339. <th>Contact:</th>
  2340. <td><a href="http://www.martiansoftware.com/contact.html">Marty Lamb</a></td>
  2341. </tr>
  2342. <tr>
  2343. <th>License:</th>
  2344. <td>Revised BSD</td>
  2345. </tr>
  2346. </table>
  2347. </subsection>
  2348. <subsection name="Speech4J">
  2349. <p>A text-to-speech task and build listener, which produce
  2350. voice output either to speakers or .wav file (the task
  2351. only).</p>
  2352. <table class="externals">
  2353. <tr>
  2354. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2355. <td>Tested with Ant 1.5.2. Works only on Windows platform
  2356. because the task uses Microsoft Speech API through
  2357. JNI.</td>
  2358. </tr>
  2359. <tr>
  2360. <th>URL:</th>
  2361. <td><a href="http://www.pavelvlasov.com/pv/content/Products/Speech4j/index.html">http://www.pavelvlasov.com/pv/content/Products/Speech4j/index.html</a></td>
  2362. </tr>
  2363. <tr>
  2364. <th>Contact:</th>
  2365. <td><a href="http://www.pavelvlasov.com/pv/content/contact.html">Pavel Vlasov</a></td>
  2366. </tr>
  2367. <tr>
  2368. <th>License:</th>
  2369. <td>Lite edition of Speech4j which includes both the task
  2370. and the listener is free.</td>
  2371. </tr>
  2372. </table>
  2373. </subsection>
  2374. <subsection name="SQLC">
  2375. <p>SQLC generates Java classes from SQL statements obviating JDBC API
  2376. in your code. Introduction to SQLC:
  2377. <a href="http://www.pavelvlasov.com/pv/content/Articles/sqlc/sqlc.html">
  2378. http://www.pavelvlasov.com/pv/content/Articles/sqlc/sqlc.html</a></p>
  2379. <table class="externals">
  2380. <tr>
  2381. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2382. <td>Tested with Ant 1.5.2. Compilation requires Java 1.4 and database
  2383. driver shall implement getParameterMetadata(). "Introduction to SQLC"
  2384. (see above) contains compatibility list. Generated classes work on
  2385. Java 1.3+
  2386. </td>
  2387. </tr>
  2388. <tr>
  2389. <th>URL:</th>
  2390. <td><a href="http://www.pavelvlasov.com/pv/content/Products/Common/doc/AntDoc/com/pavelvlasov/sql/java/ant/StatementCompilerTask.html">http://www.pavelvlasov.com/pv/content/Products/Common/doc/AntDoc/com/pavelvlasov/sql/java/ant/StatementCompilerTask.html</a></td>
  2391. </tr>
  2392. <tr>
  2393. <th>Contact:</th>
  2394. <td><a href="http://www.pavelvlasov.com/pv/content/contact.html">Pavel Vlasov</a></td>
  2395. </tr>
  2396. <tr>
  2397. <th>License:</th>
  2398. <td>LGPL</td>
  2399. </tr>
  2400. </table>
  2401. </subsection>
  2402. <subsection name="SQLUnit">
  2403. <p>SQLUnit is a regression and unit testing harness for testing
  2404. database stored procedures. The test suite is written as an XML file.
  2405. The SQLUnit harness itself is written in Java and uses the JUnit unit
  2406. testing framework to convert the XML test specifications to JDBC calls
  2407. and compare the results generated from the calls with the specified
  2408. results. It also provides the &lt;sqlunit&gt; task to run the tests
  2409. from a build script.</p>
  2410. <table class="externals">
  2411. <tr>
  2412. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2413. <td>Tested with Ant 1.6</td>
  2414. </tr>
  2415. <tr>
  2416. <th>URL:</th>
  2417. <td><a href="http://sqlunit.sourceforge.net">http://sqlunit.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  2418. </tr>
  2419. <tr>
  2420. <th>Contact:</th>
  2421. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=77832">Project forums</a></td>
  2422. </tr>
  2423. <tr>
  2424. <th>License:</th>
  2425. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL)</td>
  2426. </tr>
  2427. </table>
  2428. </subsection>
  2429. <subsection name="Styler">
  2430. <p>The styler task makes useful combinations of XSLT transformations
  2431. easy to specify in an Ant build file. Like the built-in Ant task
  2432. style, styler can apply a single transformation to a set of XML files.
  2433. But it can also:</p>
  2434. <ul>
  2435. <li>handle multiple transformations, in parallel or pipelined.</li>
  2436. <li>enable transformations that split or merge files</li>
  2437. <li>process non-XML files, especially HTML (based on JTidy)</li>
  2438. <li>apply non-XSLT transformation, especially "regular
  2439. fragmentations"</li>
  2440. <li>use any custom XMLReader or XMLFilter class to handle new file
  2441. formats and transformation techniques.</li>
  2442. </ul>
  2443. <table class="externals">
  2444. <tr>
  2445. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2446. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  2447. </tr>
  2448. <tr>
  2449. <th>URL:</th>
  2450. <td><a href="http://www.langdale.com.au/styler/">http://www.langdale.com.au/styler/</a></td>
  2451. </tr>
  2452. <tr>
  2453. <th>Contact:</th>
  2454. <td><a href="mailto:adv@langdale.com.au">Arnold deVos</a></td>
  2455. </tr>
  2456. <tr>
  2457. <th>License:</th>
  2458. <td>LGPL</td>
  2459. </tr>
  2460. </table>
  2461. </subsection>
  2462. <subsection name="Syntax">
  2463. <p>Transforms source files into HTML documents with syntax
  2464. highlighting. It can handle a variety of source files
  2465. including Java, HTML, C/C++, SQL, and Java properties. Colors
  2466. for elements are specified using cascading style sheets. The
  2467. output can be templated for easy integration with a site's
  2468. look and feel.</p>
  2469. <table class="externals">
  2470. <tr>
  2471. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2472. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  2473. </tr>
  2474. <tr>
  2475. <th>URL:</th>
  2476. <td><a href="http://ostermiller.org/syntax/ant.html">http://ostermiller.org/syntax/ant.html</a></td>
  2477. </tr>
  2478. <tr>
  2479. <th>Contact:</th>
  2480. <td><a href="http://ostermiller.org/contact.pl?regarding=Syntax+Highlighting">Stephen Ostermiller</a></td>
  2481. </tr>
  2482. <tr>
  2483. <th>License:</th>
  2484. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL)</td>
  2485. </tr>
  2486. </table>
  2487. </subsection>
  2488. <subsection name="TestSetGenerator">
  2489. <p>The TestSetGenerator is an ant task for generating property files with
  2490. testsets based on the results of SQL queries and validation plug-ins. Very
  2491. usefull when building unit tests that make use of changing datasets. This
  2492. task is an extension of the Ant SQL task. Hsqldb is used for both the
  2493. examples and the unittests.</p>
  2494. <table class="externals">
  2495. <tr>
  2496. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2497. <td>ANT 1.4 (or later)</td>
  2498. </tr>
  2499. <tr>
  2500. <th>URL:</th>
  2501. <td><a href="http://anttestsetgen.sourceforge.net/">http://anttestsetgen.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  2502. </tr>
  2503. <tr>
  2504. <th>Contact:</th>
  2505. <td><a href="mailto:m.c.jansen@planet.nl">m.c.jansen@planet.nl</a></td>
  2506. </tr>
  2507. <tr>
  2508. <th>License:</th>
  2509. <td>GPL</td>
  2510. </tr>
  2511. </table>
  2512. </subsection>
  2513. <subsection name="Tidy Imports (Tim)">
  2514. <p>Tim is a handy utility that can be executed on the command
  2515. line or via Ant that automatically formats your import
  2516. declarations. Tim is capable of removing unused imports,
  2517. expanding or collapsing imports and even organising them into
  2518. pre-determined groups.</p>
  2519. <table class="externals">
  2520. <tr>
  2521. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2522. <td>Ant 1.3 and later</td>
  2523. </tr>
  2524. <tr>
  2525. <th>URL:</th>
  2526. <td><a href="http://www.chive.com/tim.htm">http://www.chive.com/tim.htm</a></td>
  2527. </tr>
  2528. <tr>
  2529. <th>Contact:</th>
  2530. <td><a href="mailto:support@chive.com">support@chive.com</a></td>
  2531. </tr>
  2532. <tr>
  2533. <th>License:</th>
  2534. <td>Commercial</td>
  2535. </tr>
  2536. </table>
  2537. </subsection>
  2538. <subsection name="TiniAnt">
  2539. <p>TiniAnt is an Ant task to support building applications for
  2540. the <a href="http://www.ibutton.com/TINI/">TINI</a>.</p>
  2541. <table class="externals">
  2542. <tr>
  2543. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2544. <td>Ant 1.2 to 1.4.1</td>
  2545. </tr>
  2546. <tr>
  2547. <th>URL:</th>
  2548. <td><a href="http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/">http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  2549. </tr>
  2550. <tr>
  2551. <th>Contact:</th>
  2552. <td><a href="mailto:kelly@ad1440.net">Sean Kelly</a></td>
  2553. </tr>
  2554. <tr>
  2555. <th>License:</th>
  2556. <td>BSD-like license</td>
  2557. </tr>
  2558. </table>
  2559. </subsection>
  2560. <subsection name="Transformica">
  2561. <p>Code generator. Generates code from UML models, Java
  2562. metamodel or custom models.</p>
  2563. <table class="externals">
  2564. <tr>
  2565. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2566. <td>Tested with Ant 1.5 and 1.5.2</td>
  2567. </tr>
  2568. <tr>
  2569. <th>URL:</th>
  2570. <td><a href="http://www.pavelvlasov.com/pv/content/menu.show@id=products.transformica.html">http://www.pavelvlasov.com/pv/content/menu.show@id=products.transformica.html</a></td>
  2571. </tr>
  2572. <tr>
  2573. <th>Contact:</th>
  2574. <td><a href="http://www.pavelvlasov.com/pv/content/contact.html">Pavel Vlasov</a></td>
  2575. </tr>
  2576. <tr>
  2577. <th>License:</th>
  2578. <td>GPL</td>
  2579. </tr>
  2580. </table>
  2581. </subsection>
  2582. <subsection name="Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite">
  2583. <p>Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite allows
  2584. you to sign and package your applications into relocatable Web
  2585. Archives that you can drop into your web server for
  2586. single-click launching using Java Web Start or into single
  2587. Java Archive installers that serve up their content through a
  2588. built-in, multi-threaded, ultra light-weight web server.</p>
  2589. <table class="externals">
  2590. <tr>
  2591. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2592. <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
  2593. </tr>
  2594. <tr>
  2595. <th>URL:</th>
  2596. <td><a href="http://www.geocities.com/vamp201/ant.html">http://www.geocities.com/vamp201/ant.html</a></td>
  2597. </tr>
  2598. <tr>
  2599. <th>Contact:</th>
  2600. <td><a href="mailto:vamp201@yahoo.com">Gerald Bauer</a></td>
  2601. </tr>
  2602. <tr>
  2603. <th>License:</th>
  2604. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  2605. </tr>
  2606. </table>
  2607. </subsection>
  2608. <subsection name="Version_Tool">
  2609. <p>A versioning tool for Ant.</p>
  2610. <table class="externals">
  2611. <tr>
  2612. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2613. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  2614. </tr>
  2615. <tr>
  2616. <th>URL:</th>
  2617. <td><a href="http://ant.ryangrier.com/">http://ant.ryangrier.com/</a></td>
  2618. </tr>
  2619. <tr>
  2620. <th>Contact:</th>
  2621. <td><a href="mailto:version_tool@ryangrier.com">version_tool@ryangrier.com</a></td>
  2622. </tr>
  2623. <tr>
  2624. <th>License:</th>
  2625. <td>BSD license</td>
  2626. </tr>
  2627. </table>
  2628. </subsection>
  2629. <subsection name="VPP">
  2630. <p>VPP provides general file preprocessing support based on
  2631. the Velocity Template Engine. The core functionality is
  2632. provided as a filter for use with tasks that supports filter
  2633. chains. Also included are replacement tasks for &lt;copy&gt; and
  2634. &lt;javac&gt; that integrate support for preprocessing.</p>
  2635. <table class="externals">
  2636. <tr>
  2637. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2638. <td>1.5.1 and above</td>
  2639. </tr>
  2640. <tr>
  2641. <th>URL:</th>
  2642. <td><a href="http://vpp.sourceforge.net/">http://vpp.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  2643. </tr>
  2644. <tr>
  2645. <th>Contact:</th>
  2646. <td><a href="mailto:vpp-user@lists.sourceforge.net">vpp-user@lists.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  2647. </tr>
  2648. <tr>
  2649. <th>License:</th>
  2650. <td>BSD license</td>
  2651. </tr>
  2652. </table>
  2653. </subsection>
  2654. <subsection name="WOProject">
  2655. <p>WOProject provides a set of tools to work with
  2656. <a href="http://webobjects.com/">WebObjects 5.1</a>
  2657. independent from platform and IDE. It significantly
  2658. improves developer productivity
  2659. and makes complex project structures more flexible compared to
  2660. traditional Makefile-based approach.
  2661. </p>
  2662. <table class="externals">
  2663. <tr>
  2664. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2665. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  2666. </tr>
  2667. <tr>
  2668. <th>URL:</th>
  2669. <td><a href="http://objectstyle.org/woproject/">http://objectstyle.org/woproject/</a></td>
  2670. </tr>
  2671. <tr>
  2672. <th>Contact:</th>
  2673. <td><a href="mailto:andrus@objectstyle.org">Andrus Adamchik</a></td>
  2674. </tr>
  2675. <tr>
  2676. <th>License:</th>
  2677. <td>Apache license</td>
  2678. </tr>
  2679. </table>
  2680. </subsection>
  2681. <subsection name="WSDLValidate">
  2682. <p>WSDLValidate is, as it sounds, a tool to validate WSDL files.
  2683. <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/~checkout~/wsvt-home/docs/articles/wsdl20Validator/wsdlvalidateant.html">WSDLValidate</a>
  2684. is similar in configuration to the optional Ant task <a href="http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/xmlvalidate.html">XMLValidate</a>.
  2685. WSDLValidate can optionally validate a WSDL document against the <a href="http://www.ws-i.org">WS-I Basic Profile</a>.
  2686. </p>
  2687. <p>WSDLValidate is available as an Ant task, an Eclipse plug-in and a
  2688. command line utility.</p>
  2689. <table class="externals">
  2690. <tr>
  2691. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2692. <td>Ant 1.5 or later</td>
  2693. </tr>
  2694. <tr>
  2695. <th>URL:</th>
  2696. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/wsvt">http://www.eclipse.org/wsvt</a></td>
  2697. </tr>
  2698. <tr>
  2699. <th>Contact:</th>
  2700. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/wsvt">Project newsgroup and
  2701. mailing list</a></td>
  2702. </tr>
  2703. <tr>
  2704. <th>License:</th>
  2705. <td><a href="http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/CPLv1.0.htm">Common Public
  2706. License (CPL)</a></td>
  2707. </tr>
  2708. </table>
  2709. </subsection>
  2710. <subsection name="Xcluder">
  2711. <p>xcluder is an XML Inclusions (XInclude) task for Apache Ant.
  2712. Offers the choice of using Xerces or Elliotte Rusty Harold's XOM API.
  2713. </p>
  2714. <table class="externals">
  2715. <tr>
  2716. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2717. <td>Ant 1.4 or later. XInclude compliance depends on the
  2718. underlying Xerces or XOM used. Xerces 2.5.0 and above works fine,
  2719. but please note that 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 processed the
  2720. http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude, now obsolete by
  2721. http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude used by the latest
  2722. Candidate Recommendation (13 April 2004).
  2723. </td>
  2724. </tr>
  2725. <tr>
  2726. <th>URL:</th>
  2727. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcluder">http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcluder</a></td>
  2728. </tr>
  2729. <tr>
  2730. <th>Contact:</th>
  2731. <td><a href="mailto:mbatsis@users.sf.net">mbatsis@users.sf.net</a></td>
  2732. </tr>
  2733. <tr>
  2734. <th>License:</th>
  2735. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Library or Lesser
  2736. General Public License (LGPL)
  2737. </td>
  2738. </tr>
  2739. </table>
  2740. </subsection>
  2741. <subsection name="XDoclet">
  2742. <p>XDoclet is an extended Javadoc Doclet engine for use in Ant.
  2743. It lets you create custom Javadoc @tags and based on those tags
  2744. generates source code or other files (such as xml-ish deployment
  2745. descriptors). Templates and matching tasks are provided to generate
  2746. EJB and web application deployment descriptors.
  2747. </p>
  2748. <table class="externals">
  2749. <tr>
  2750. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2751. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  2752. </tr>
  2753. <tr>
  2754. <th>URL:</th>
  2755. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet/</a></td>
  2756. </tr>
  2757. <tr>
  2758. <th>License:</th>
  2759. <td>BSD license</td>
  2760. </tr>
  2761. </table>
  2762. </subsection>
  2763. <subsection name="XInclude">
  2764. <p><a href="http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/xia/index.html">XInclude</a> is
  2765. a W3C standardized vocabulary for including arbitrary text or XML
  2766. documents in other XML documents. This task performes the inclusion
  2767. using an existing XInclude implementation</p>
  2768. <table class="externals">
  2769. <tr>
  2770. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2771. <td>Ant 1.5.2</td>
  2772. </tr>
  2773. <tr>
  2774. <th>URL:</th>
  2775. <td>
  2776. <a href="http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/xia/index.html">http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/xia/index.html</a>
  2777. </td>
  2778. </tr>
  2779. <tr>
  2780. <th>Contact:</th>
  2781. <td><a href="mailto:mario@jeckle.de">mario@jeckle.de</a></td>
  2782. </tr>
  2783. <tr>
  2784. <th>License:</th>
  2785. <td>Lesser GNU Public License</td>
  2786. </tr>
  2787. </table>
  2788. </subsection>
  2789. <subsection name="XMLReleaseNotes (XRN)">
  2790. <p>This framework is a release notes framework that enables to
  2791. generate textual release notes from an XML file. This is an
  2792. open framework that enables to integrate the information
  2793. coming from VSC and bug tracking solutions, for instance.</p>
  2794. <table class="externals">
  2795. <tr>
  2796. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2797. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  2798. </tr>
  2799. <tr>
  2800. <th>URL:</th>
  2801. <td><a href="http://xmlreleasenotes.free.fr/">http://xmlreleasenotes.free.fr/</a></td>
  2802. </tr>
  2803. <tr>
  2804. <th>Contact:</th>
  2805. <td>Edouard Mercier</td>
  2806. </tr>
  2807. <tr>
  2808. <th>License:</th>
  2809. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  2810. </tr>
  2811. </table>
  2812. </subsection>
  2813. <subsection name="XmlTask">
  2814. <p>XmlTask provides a simple means to modify XML documents
  2815. without having to learn XSLT. A simple path reference to an
  2816. XML node specifies the node you want to change, and how you
  2817. want to allow XML insertion and removal, or attribute
  2818. changes. The emphasis is on providing the simplest means to
  2819. perform common XML replacements</p>
  2820. <table class="externals">
  2821. <tr>
  2822. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2823. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  2824. </tr>
  2825. <tr>
  2826. <th>URL:</th>
  2827. <td><a href="http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask/">http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask/</a></td>
  2828. </tr>
  2829. <tr>
  2830. <th>Contact:</th>
  2831. <td><a href="mailto:xmltask-users@lists.sourceforge.net">xmltask-users at lists.sourceforge.net</a> </td>
  2832. </tr>
  2833. <tr>
  2834. <th>License:</th>
  2835. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  2836. </tr>
  2837. </table>
  2838. </subsection>
  2839. <subsection name="yGuard">
  2840. <p>yGuard is a free Java(TM) Bytecode Obfuscator Task that
  2841. needs no external script or project files. It can completely
  2842. be configured and run through the Ant build script. The task
  2843. supports multiple Jar files at once and makes use of
  2844. patternsets and regular expressions to specify elements, which
  2845. should be left unobfuscated. Additionally it can be used to
  2846. produce patches for obfuscated applications that have already
  2847. been deployed.</p>
  2848. <table class="externals">
  2849. <tr>
  2850. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2851. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  2852. </tr>
  2853. <tr>
  2854. <th>URL:</th>
  2855. <td><a href="http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yguard_about.htm">http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yguard_about.htm</a></td>
  2856. </tr>
  2857. <tr>
  2858. <th>Contact:</th>
  2859. <td><a href="mailto:yguard@yworks.com">yGuard@yWorks.com</a></td>
  2860. </tr>
  2861. <tr>
  2862. <th>License:</th>
  2863. <td>Library: LGPL, Task: Commercial</td>
  2864. </tr>
  2865. </table>
  2866. </subsection>
  2867. <subsection name="Zelix KlassMaster">
  2868. <p>The task ZKMTask allows the Zelix KlassMaster Java obfuscator to be integrated into an Ant build.</p>
  2869. <table class="externals">
  2870. <tr>
  2871. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2872. <td>Ant 1.4.1 and later</td>
  2873. </tr>
  2874. <tr>
  2875. <th>URL:</th>
  2876. <td><a href="http://www.zelix.com/klassmaster/docs/buildToolApi.html">http://www.zelix.com/klassmaster/docs/buildToolApi.html</a></td>
  2877. </tr>
  2878. <tr>
  2879. <th>License:</th>
  2880. <td>Commercial</td>
  2881. </tr>
  2882. </table>
  2883. </subsection>
  2884. </section>
  2885. <section name="Compiler Implementations">
  2886. <subsection name="Generics (JSR14) Early-Access Compiler Adapter">
  2887. <p>This is an Ant compiler-adapter that allows you to use the
  2888. normal <code>&lt;javac&gt;</code> task plus Sun's early-access
  2889. compiler to compile Generics-enabled Java code. (This is only
  2890. necessary until JDK1.5 is released.)</p>
  2891. <table class="externals">
  2892. <tr>
  2893. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2894. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  2895. </tr>
  2896. <tr>
  2897. <th>URL:</th>
  2898. <td><a href="http://www.madbean.com/blog/3/">http://www.madbean.com/blog/3/</a></td>
  2899. </tr>
  2900. <tr>
  2901. <th>Contact:</th>
  2902. <td>Matt Quail &lt;spud[at]madbean[dot]com&gt;</td>
  2903. </tr>
  2904. <tr>
  2905. <th>License:</th>
  2906. <td>Public Domain</td>
  2907. </tr>
  2908. </table>
  2909. </subsection>
  2910. <subsection name="miniRMI &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;rmic&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; implementation">
  2911. <p>miniRMI is a freeware opensource library that serves as a
  2912. lightweight replacement for the original java.rmi packages and
  2913. is suitable especially for applets. Ant 1.4+
  2914. <code>&lt;rmic&gt;</code> adapter included.</p>
  2915. <table class="externals">
  2916. <tr>
  2917. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2918. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  2919. </tr>
  2920. <tr>
  2921. <th>URL:</th>
  2922. <td><a href="http://dione.zcu.cz/~toman40/miniRMI/">http://dione.zcu.cz/~toman40/miniRMI/</a></td>
  2923. </tr>
  2924. <tr>
  2925. <th>Contact:</th>
  2926. <td><a href="mailto:Petr.Toman@pinknet.cz">Petr Toman</a></td>
  2927. </tr>
  2928. <tr>
  2929. <th>License:</th>
  2930. <td>Gnu Lesser Public License</td>
  2931. </tr>
  2932. </table>
  2933. </subsection>
  2934. </section>
  2935. <section name="IDE and Editor Integration">
  2936. <subsection name="AntFarm">
  2937. <p>A plugin that integrates Ant into the jEdit editor.</p>
  2938. <table class="externals">
  2939. <tr>
  2940. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2941. <td>bundles Ant 1.5</td>
  2942. </tr>
  2943. <tr>
  2944. <th>URL:</th>
  2945. <td><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?AntFarm">http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?AntFarm</a></td>
  2946. </tr>
  2947. <tr>
  2948. <th>Contact:</th>
  2949. <td><a href="mailto:jedit-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">jEdit developers mailinglist</a></td>
  2950. </tr>
  2951. <tr>
  2952. <th>License:</th>
  2953. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  2954. </tr>
  2955. </table>
  2956. </subsection>
  2957. <subsection name="AntMan">
  2958. <p>An AddIn that integrates Ant with the JDeveloper IDE</p>
  2959. <table class="externals">
  2960. <tr>
  2961. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2962. <td>Ant 1.4.1</td>
  2963. </tr>
  2964. <tr>
  2965. <th>URL:</th>
  2966. <td><a href="http://www.erudra.com/antman/index.html">http://www.erudra.com/antman/index.html</a></td>
  2967. </tr>
  2968. <tr>
  2969. <th>Contact:</th>
  2970. <td><a href="mailto:ashok@erudra.com">Ashok Sridhar</a></td>
  2971. </tr>
  2972. <tr>
  2973. <th>License:</th>
  2974. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  2975. </tr>
  2976. </table>
  2977. </subsection>
  2978. <subsection name="AntRunner">
  2979. <p>An OpenTool that integrates Ant into the JBuilder IDE
  2980. (version 5 and later).</p>
  2981. <table class="externals">
  2982. <tr>
  2983. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2984. <td>Ant 1.2 and later</td>
  2985. </tr>
  2986. <tr>
  2987. <th>URL:</th>
  2988. <td><a href="http://antrunner.sourceforge.net/">http://antrunner.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  2989. </tr>
  2990. <tr>
  2991. <th>Contact:</th>
  2992. <td><a href="mailto:dirk.schnelle@web.de">Dirk Schnelle</a></td>
  2993. </tr>
  2994. <tr>
  2995. <th>License:</th>
  2996. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  2997. </tr>
  2998. </table>
  2999. </subsection>
  3000. <subsection name="AntWork">
  3001. <p>A plugin that integrates Ant into the Jext editor.</p>
  3002. <table class="externals">
  3003. <tr>
  3004. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3005. <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
  3006. </tr>
  3007. <tr>
  3008. <th>URL:</th>
  3009. <td><a href="ftp://jext.sourceforge.net/pub/jext/plugins/AntWork.zip">ftp://jext.sourceforge.net/pub/jext/plugins/AntWork.zip</a></td>
  3010. </tr>
  3011. <tr>
  3012. <th>Contact:</th>
  3013. <td><a href="mailto:KHartlage@t-online.de">Klaus Hartlage</a></td>
  3014. </tr>
  3015. <tr>
  3016. <th>License:</th>
  3017. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  3018. </tr>
  3019. </table>
  3020. </subsection>
  3021. <subsection name="Eclipse">
  3022. <p>Eclipse is a universal tool platform with Ant integration.</p>
  3023. <table class="externals">
  3024. <tr>
  3025. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3026. <td>
  3027. Ant 1.3 - 1.4.1
  3028. Bundles Ant 1.6.2 as of Eclipse 3.0.1 (tested with Ant 1.5.4 - 1.6.2)
  3029. </td>
  3030. </tr>
  3031. <tr>
  3032. <th>URL:</th>
  3033. <td>
  3034. <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">http://www.eclipse.org/</a>
  3035. or
  3036. <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-ant-home/index.html">
  3037. http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-ant-home/index.html
  3038. </a>
  3039. </td>
  3040. </tr>
  3041. <tr>
  3042. <th>Contact:</th>
  3043. <td><a href="news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.platform">news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.platform</a></td>
  3044. </tr>
  3045. <tr>
  3046. <th>License:</th>
  3047. <td>Common Public License Version 1.0</td>
  3048. </tr>
  3049. </table>
  3050. </subsection>
  3051. <subsection name="Gel">
  3052. <p>Java IDE with support for Ant. Gel is a native Microsoft
  3053. Windows software.</p>
  3054. <table class="externals">
  3055. <tr>
  3056. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3057. <td>Ant 1.4 and above</td>
  3058. </tr>
  3059. <tr>
  3060. <th>URL:</th>
  3061. <td><a href="http://www.gexperts.com/gel.html">http://www.gexperts.com/gel.html</a></td>
  3062. </tr>
  3063. <tr>
  3064. <th>Contact:</th>
  3065. <td><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gelide/">Project Mailing List</a></td>
  3066. </tr>
  3067. <tr>
  3068. <th>License:</th>
  3069. <td>Freeware</td>
  3070. </tr>
  3071. </table>
  3072. </subsection>
  3073. <subsection name="IntelliJ IDEA 5.0">
  3074. <p>Java IDE with refactoring support and Ant integration.
  3075. The IDE has special editing and navigation support for Ant.
  3076. </p>
  3077. <table class="externals">
  3078. <tr>
  3079. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3080. <td>bundles Ant 1.6.5</td>
  3081. </tr>
  3082. <tr>
  3083. <th>URL:</th>
  3084. <td><a href="http://www.intellij.com/idea/">http://www.intellij.com/idea/</a></td>
  3085. </tr>
  3086. <tr>
  3087. <th>Contact:</th>
  3088. <td><a href="mailto:support@intellij.com">support@intellij.com</a></td>
  3089. </tr>
  3090. <tr>
  3091. <th>License:</th>
  3092. <td>Commercial; Academic and OpenSource licenses available.</td>
  3093. </tr>
  3094. </table>
  3095. </subsection>
  3096. <subsection name="JBuilder">
  3097. <p>Borland JBuilder
  3098. comes with built-in Ant support, including build file editing.
  3099. Some versions come with Ant debugging support.</p>
  3100. <table class="externals">
  3101. <tr>
  3102. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3103. <td>Bundles Ant 1.6</td>
  3104. </tr>
  3105. <tr>
  3106. <th>URL:</th>
  3107. <td><a href="http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/index.html">http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/index.html</a></td>
  3108. </tr>
  3109. <tr>
  3110. <th>Contact:</th>
  3111. <td><a href="mailto:customer_service@borland.com">customer_service@borland.com</a></td>
  3112. </tr>
  3113. <tr>
  3114. <th>License:</th>
  3115. <td>Commercial; foundation edition is free.</td>
  3116. </tr>
  3117. </table>
  3118. </subsection>
  3119. <subsection name="JDEE">
  3120. <p>The Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDEE) supports
  3121. Apache Ant as one of three built-in ways to build your
  3122. applications.</p>
  3123. <table class="externals">
  3124. <tr>
  3125. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3126. <td>Ant 1.2 and later</td>
  3127. </tr>
  3128. <tr>
  3129. <th>URL:</th>
  3130. <td><a href="http://jdee.sunsite.dk/">http://jdee.sunsite.dk/</a></td>
  3131. </tr>
  3132. <tr>
  3133. <th>Contact:</th>
  3134. <td><a href="mailto:jde-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk">JDEE Mailing list.</a></td>
  3135. </tr>
  3136. <tr>
  3137. <th>License:</th>
  3138. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  3139. </tr>
  3140. </table>
  3141. </subsection>
  3142. <subsection name="NetBeans">
  3143. <p>A module that integrates Ant into the NetBeans IDE, as well as derivative products such as Sun Java
  3144. Studio (formerly Forte for Java and Sun ONE Studio) and Sun Java Studio Creator.
  3145. This IDE uses Ant as its <i>sole</i> means of building applications,
  3146. with custom tasks and an Ant-aware editor.</p>
  3147. <table class="externals">
  3148. <tr>
  3149. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3150. <td>bundles Ant 1.6.2 as of NetBeans 4.1; 1.6.5 for NetBeans 5.0</td>
  3151. </tr>
  3152. <tr>
  3153. <th>URL:</th>
  3154. <td><a href="http://ant.netbeans.org/">http://ant.netbeans.org/</a></td>
  3155. </tr>
  3156. <tr>
  3157. <th>Contact:</th>
  3158. <td><a href="mailto:nbdev@netbeans.org">nbdev@netbeans.org</a></td>
  3159. </tr>
  3160. <tr>
  3161. <th>License:</th>
  3162. <td>Sun Public License</td>
  3163. </tr>
  3164. </table>
  3165. </subsection>
  3166. <subsection name="Optistic IDX Java IDE">
  3167. <p>Java IDE with deep Ant integration. IDX is a native Microsoft Windows program.</p>
  3168. <table class="externals">
  3169. <tr>
  3170. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3171. <td>bundles Ant 1.6</td>
  3172. </tr>
  3173. <tr>
  3174. <th>URL:</th>
  3175. <td>
  3176. <a href="http://www.optistic.com/idx">http://optistic.com/idx</a>
  3177. </td>
  3178. </tr>
  3179. <tr>
  3180. <th>Contact:</th>
  3181. <td>
  3182. <a href="mailto:support@optistic.com">support@optistic.com</a>
  3183. </td>
  3184. </tr>
  3185. <tr>
  3186. <th>License:</th>
  3187. <td>Commercial; Academic and OpenSource licenses available.</td>
  3188. </tr>
  3189. </table>
  3190. </subsection>
  3191. <subsection name="Oracle9i JDeveloper">
  3192. <p>Java IDE with support for Ant.</p>
  3193. <table class="externals">
  3194. <tr>
  3195. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3196. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  3197. </tr>
  3198. <tr>
  3199. <th>URL:</th>
  3200. <td><a href="http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/">http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/</a></td>
  3201. </tr>
  3202. <tr>
  3203. <th>Contact:</th>
  3204. <td><a href="mailto:jdeveloperbeta_us@oracle.com">jdeveloperbeta_us@oracle.com</a></td>
  3205. </tr>
  3206. <tr>
  3207. <th>License:</th>
  3208. <td>Commercial</td>
  3209. </tr>
  3210. </table>
  3211. </subsection>
  3212. <subsection name="WebSphere Studio Application Developer">
  3213. <p>WSAD features Ant integrate by virtue of being built on the Eclipse tools platform.</p>
  3214. <table class="externals">
  3215. <tr>
  3216. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3217. <td>bundles Ant 1.4.1</td>
  3218. </tr>
  3219. <tr>
  3220. <th>Article:</th>
  3221. <td><a href="http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/library/techarticles/0203_searle/searle1.html">Ant Integration Part1</a></td>
  3222. </tr>
  3223. <tr>
  3224. <th>License:</th>
  3225. <td>Commercial</td>
  3226. </tr>
  3227. </table>
  3228. </subsection>
  3229. </section>
  3230. <section name="Source Control Systems">
  3231. <p>There are several integration with SCM systems. Some are
  3232. <a href="manual/tasksoverview.html#scm">built in</a>. But some are available as
  3233. external libraries. Here a list of task libraries we are aware of:</p>
  3234. <subsection name="Surround SCM">
  3235. <p>These are tasks that allow users to access Surround SCM
  3236. functionality from within Ant build scripts.</p>
  3237. <table class="externals">
  3238. <tr>
  3239. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3240. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  3241. </tr>
  3242. <tr>
  3243. <th>URL:</th>
  3244. <td><a href="http://www.seapine.com/scmresources.php#integration">
  3245. Surround SCM Resource Center</a></td>
  3246. </tr>
  3247. <tr>
  3248. <th>Contact:</th>
  3249. <td><a href="mailto:support@seapine.com">Seapine Support</a></td>
  3250. </tr>
  3251. <tr>
  3252. <th>License:</th>
  3253. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td>
  3254. </tr>
  3255. </table>
  3256. </subsection>
  3257. </section>
  3258. </body>
  3259. </document>