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- External Tools and Tasks
-- - External Tools and Tasks -
-This page lists external resources for Apache Ant: Tasks, Compiler Implementations, - IDE integration - tools, Source Control - Systems, loggers, you name it. If you've written - something that should be included, please post all relevant - information to one of the mailing lists. For details, see the - FAQ.
-Nothing listed here is directly supported by the Ant - developers (therefore 'external tools and tasks'), - if you encounter any problems with them, please use - the contact information.
-- - Tasks -
-- - AJC -
-AspectJ is an - aspect-oriented extension to Java. This task compiles a - source tree using the AspectJ compiler -- AJC.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.3 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- project mailing lists - | -
| - License: - | -- Eclipse Public License - | -
- - Anakia -
-Actually, Anakia is more than just an Ant task, it is a an - XML transformation tool based on JDOM, Velocity and Ant.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.2 and later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://velocity.apache.org/anakia/devel/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Velocity mailing lists - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - Andariel -
-Andariel is a set of tasks designed to help the generation of HTML - (and other markup languages) pages from Ant. Includes a XPath processor, - an image information retriever, and others.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5.4 and newer - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://andariel.uworks.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- josep DOT rio AT uworks DOT net - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - ant4eclipse -
-ant4eclipse provides a set of Ant tasks to make several - configurations from the Eclipse IDE available in Ant - buildscripts. The tasks are aimed to avoid redundancy between - Eclipse and Ant configurations in order to build small but - powerful build systems for the continuous integration - process
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.1 and higher - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://ant4eclipse.sf.net - | -
| - Contact: - | -- - ant4eclipse user mailing list - - | -
| - License: - | -- Sun Public License - | -
- - Antcount -
-Antcount is a set of filters that can be used to gather statistics - from files or resources. It is mainly used for log files analysis. - It allows to:
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- count inputs (lines, strings) -
- count occurrences of each input -
- calculate average, max and min values of floats in input -
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- stop filtering: read everything but write nothing -
- echo input to the console or to a file. This allows users to create - several files at once -
- split the stream in two for parallel processing -
| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.2 and higher - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://antcount.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Patrick Martin - | -
| - License: - | -- LGPL - | -
- - AntDoc -
-AntDoc is a tool that generates HTML documentation from Ant - buildfiles; the generated HTML is inspired from what javadoc - yields. AntDocGUI offers a simple Ant target launcher named - AntDoc GUI. Ant targets may be launched from the generated - AntDoc HTML pages. Integration to various IDEs is in - progress.
-AntDoc can be run via an Ant task, AntDoc GUI can be run - via an Ant task, or via a JVM launch.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4.1 and higher - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://antdoc.free.fr/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Edouard Mercier - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - AntDoclet -
-AntDoclet is a tool to automatically generate documentation out of - your Ant Tasks' source code.
-It is implemented as a Javadoc doclet, and generates reference - documentation and other deliverables from the source code of your - custom Ant Tasks/Types.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6+ (not tested on earlier versions) - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://antdoclet.neuroning.com/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Fernando Dobladez - | -
| - License: - | -- GPL - | -
- - Anteater -
-Anteater is a set of Ant tasks for the functional testing of websites - and web services (functional testing being; hit a URL and ensure the - response meets certain criteria). Can test HTTP params, response - codes, XPath, regexp and Relax NG expressions. Includes HTML reporting - (based on junitreport) and a hierarchical grouping system for quickly - configuring large test scripts. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://aft.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- developer - mailing list - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - AntForm -
-Provides a java/swing form-based input scheme for - configuring ant properties and launching ant targets.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.2. - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://antforms.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- René Ghosh - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
- - Antmerge -
-Provides simple inheritance between ant files
-As noted on the website, this project is deprected.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Tested with 1.5. Should work with all versions. - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.russet.org.uk/antmerge.html - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Phillip Lord - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU Lesser General Public License - | -
- - Antomology -
-Antomology is an analysis tool suite for Ant. It includes:
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- StatisticsListener - an Ant BuildListener which can be used to gather - statistics while an Ant build is executed. Statistics on the targets - and tasks executed are written to the console after the build completes. -
| - Compatibility: - | -- unknown - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://antomology.codehaus.org - | -
| - Contact: - | -- contact page - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License V2.0 - | -
- - AntPrettyBuild -
-- Ant Pretty Build is a tool to easily show and run Ant buildfiles directly from - within a browser window. It consists of a single XSL file that will generate, - on the fly, in the browser, from the .xml buildfile, a pretty interface showing - project name, description, properties and targets, etc. sorted or unsorted, - allowing to load/modify/add properties, run the whole project, or run selected - set of targets in a specific order, with the ability to modify logger/logfile, - mode and add more libs or command line arguments. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- All Ant versions - | -
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| - URL: - | -- Ant Pretty Build Homepage - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Charbel BITAR - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License V2.0 - | -
- - AntRunner -
-AntRunner is an easy to use and free GUI application for running - Ant build files. It's written for .NET so it should run on any Windows - Platform.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6 and newer - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://visualdrugs.net/antrunner/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Andre Fiedler - | -
| - License: - | -- GPL - | -
- - AntSpaces -
-AntSpaces provides Ant integration with JavaSpaces. This - allows you to coordinate Ant tasks via JavaSpaces, pull out - work units from a JavaSpace for distributed Ant tasks to work - on, and so forth.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- - http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/antspaces/ - - | -
| - Contact: - | -- antspaces at oopsconsultancy.com - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - AntTimerTask -
-Timer - is task for measuring the time elapsed to complete other - tasks
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- - http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/AntTimerTask/index.html - - | -
| - Contact: - | -- mario@jeckle.de - | -
| - License: - | -- Lesser GNU Public License - | -
- - Ant Web Start Task -
-Ant Web Start Task is an Ant task allowing developers to - package a desktop application as a WAR (Web Application - Archive) to be distributed over the net via Java Web Start
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and above - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://ant-jnlp-war.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - AntXtras -
-A collection of powerful Ant extensions components - organized into five categories: fixture-control, - execution-rules, flow-control, feedback, and helpers.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.5 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- AntXtras Home - | -
| - Contact: - | -- SSMC - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL 2.1) - | -
- - Build Number -
-Build Number is a tool to track software artifacts such as files and automatically assign - proper version/build numbers to them. It ensures that two different artifacts will have different - version/build numbers, but identical artifacts/builds will be assigned the same number. It doesn't - take version management away from you and doesn't replace your build process, but rather plugs - into the process and introduces version/build number governance by defining who is in charge of - which part of version number. With Build Number you are still in charge of the head of the version - number. E.g. you may decide to have 4 numbers in your version (major, minor, interface, implementation) - and you want to manage the two first numbers (major and minor). Build Number will take care of the - tedium of managing the last two numbers (interface and implementation).
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Tested with Ant 1.5.4 and 1.6.5 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.hammurapi.biz/hammurapi-biz/ef/xmenu/hammurapi-group/products/build-number/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Project Contact Page - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial - | -
- - Checkstyle -
-Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write - Java code that adheres to a coding standard. Its purpose is to - automate the process of checking Java code, and to spare - humans of this boring (but important) task.
-Checkstyle can be run via an Ant task or a command line - utility.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4.1 and later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Oliver Burn - | -
| - License: - | -- Starting with release 2.0 the license is the GNU - Lesser General Public License. Prior releases were under - the GNU General Public License. - | -
- - ChownTask -
-ChownTask is an Ant task to change ownership of files on Unix.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Feb 16 2003. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.3 and up - | -
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| - URL: - | -- - http://sourceforge.net/projects/chowntask/ - - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Wilfred Springer - - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
- - CleanImports -
-Removes unneeded imports. Formats your import - sections. Flags ambiguous imports.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.3 and up - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.cleanimports.tombrus.nl - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Tom Brus - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - Clover -
-Clover is an Ant-based Code Coverage tool. It can be used - seamlessly with Ant-based projects. It provides method, - statement, and branch coverage analysis, and has rich - reporting in XML, HTML or via a Swing GUI.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4.1 or greater - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.cenqua.com/clover/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- clover-support@cenqua.com - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial, free licenses available for open source - projects. - | -
- - CMSDeploy -
-CMSDeploy is - an Apache Ant Task to submit files and templates to Vignette - CMS.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5.1 and later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://cmsdeploy.sourceforge.net - | -
| - Contact: - | -- masogato@users.sourceforge.net - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU Lesser General Public License - | -
- - Cocoon Task -
-This task allows the generation of static web pages and - sites using Apache Cocoon in off-line mode.
-It allows the configuration information for Cocoon to be - included within the Ant build file, and is thus - able to take advantage of Ant properties.
-The task shares its code with the Cocoon Command Line, which - means that this task will instantly take - advantage of any new functionality added there.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5.3 and above - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://cocoon.apache.org - | -
| - Documentation: - | -- http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/offline/ant.html - | -
| - Contact: - | -- users at cocoon.apache.org - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - Configure -
-Recursive build support (call ant on every package level, - and only build files in that package or in that package and - everything below) with seperation of source and output.
-The task generates build files in any subdirectory (except - for CVS-directories) for you. Only place one build.xml file in - the top and call target 'setup' or - 'rescan'.
-As of 2009-03-06 this site was offline due database problems. So we do not know - if this still longer exist. But you could also try Ants own <subant> task.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.2 and 1.3 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- M.J.P. van Leeuwen - | -
| - License: - | -- License derived from Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - CVSGrab -
-A little CVS client that can be useful when people are - behind corporate firewall that blocks any cvs - communications. It uses the ViewCVS web interface to access - the CVS repository via standard http, and downloads all the - files present in it.
-It works from the command line or as an Ant task.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.3 or higher - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- CVSGrab - user mailing list - | -
| - License: - | -- LGPL - | -
- - Dependencies -
-The dependencies task manages a set of external dependencies which - may be downloaded from a remote repository, - such as ibiblio.org. Uses a local cache to avoid repeated - downloads.
-Note: While the HttpUnit site is still active, the referenced URL is not available. - You could also try Ivy.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Tested with 1.5.1, should work with 1.4+. - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.httpunit.org/doc/dependencies.html - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Russell Gold - | -
| - License: - | -- MIT License - | -
- - Dependency Finder -
-Dependency Finder extracts dependencies and OO metrics from - Java class files produced by most Java compilers. It can compute - API differences between versions; no sources needed. It includes - Ant tasks, web, Swing, and command-line interfaces, with XSL - stylesheets for formatting output.
-You can use it to extract dependencies between packages, classes, - or even methods, or any combination thereof. You can use Perl - regular expressions to filter the information and pinpoint only - what you need. There is even a Web Application version (WAR file) - so a whole group of developers can share a common view.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Tested with 1.5.3, should work with 1.4+. - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://depfind.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Jean Tessier - | -
| - License: - | -- BSD-like License - | -
- - Doxygen task -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://ant-doxygen.blogspot.com - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Karthik A Kumar - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - DTDDoc -
-DTDDoc is here to help you to document your DTD's efficiently. It is a - straightforward extension of the javadoc concept to the DTD file format.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 and later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://dtddoc.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Project Mailing List - | -
| - License: - | -- X11 (Open Source) - | -
- - EnvGen -
-- EnvGen is an Ant task for generating - different versions of the same file parameterized for different environments (i.e. - development, test, and production). File generation is done using - FreeMarker, a template engine with a full-featured - templating language. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.5 or higher (not tested on earlier versions) - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.basilv.com/software - | -
| - Contact: - | -- EnvGen Feedback Page - | -
| - License: - | -- GPL - | -
- - EMMA -
-EMMA is an open-source toolkit for measuring and reporting - Java code coverage. EMMA distinguishes itself from other tools - by going after a unique feature combination: support large-scale - enterprise software development while keeping individual developers - work fast and iterative at the same time.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 and later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://emma.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Mailinglist - | -
| - License: - | -- Common Public License 1.0 - | -
- - EPP Task -
-EPP Task is an easy preprocessor ant task. - The next directives are supported: #ifdef, #ifndef, #else, - #endif and #include.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 and higher - | -
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| - URL: - | -- - http://sourceforge.net/projects/epptask/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Dmitriy Rykov - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - FMPP -
-FMPP is a general-purpose text file preprocessor tool that - uses FreeMarker templates. It is particularly designed for - HTML preprocessor, for the generation of complete (static) - homepages: directory structure that contains HTML-s, image - files, etc. But of course it can be used to generate source - code or whatever text files. FMPP is extendable with Java - classes to pull data from any data sources (XML file, - database, etc.) and embed the data into the generated - files.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5.1 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://fmpp.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - License: - | -- BSD License - | -
- - GenJar -
-Builds a JAR file based on class dependencies rather than simply the contents of a directory
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 alpha (built after 2001/08/04) and later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://genjar.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Jesse Stockall - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - Grand -
-Grand is a set of tools to create a visual representation of Ant target - dependencies. It works by taking an Ant build file and creating a "dot" file. It - differs from the existing tools by relying on the Ant API rather than XML parsing to - get the dependencies. It includes many advanced features such as filtering or - rendering depending on the target's nature. Also features a SWT based GUI.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6 and later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.ggtools.net/grand/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Christophe Labouisse - | -
| - License: - | -- BSD License - | -
- - Greebo -
-Greebo is an Ant-task for downloading dependency files - (currently only jars) from a network to a specified directory, - much like Maven. It supports multiple local and remote - repositories with either flat or maven-like structures. It can - read the dependency list from a Maven project file, a - maven-like dependency file, or directly from the build.xml - file.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Mar 12 2003 . - You could also try Ivy. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://greebo.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- project mailing lists - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - GroboUtils CodeCoverage -
-The CodeCoverage sub-project of GroboUtils provides a 100% - pure Java code coverage tool. It uses pre-execution class file - recompilation, and generates XML files containing the coverage - statistics. It does not require any advanced VM setup to generate - coverage numbers. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5.1 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://groboutils.sourceforge.net/codecoverage/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- project mailing lists - | -
| - License: - | -- MIT License - | -
- - Hammurapi -
-Java code review tool. Performs automated code - review. Contains 111 inspectors which check different aspects - of code quality including coding standards, EJB, threading, - ...
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Tested with Ant 1.5.x and 1.6.5 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.hammurapi.biz/hammurapi-biz/ef/xmenu/hammurapi-group/products/hammurapi/index.html - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Support adress - | -
| - License: - | -- - | -
- - HelpStudioAnt -
-This task allows for HelpStudio projects to be created via Ant.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.0 and later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://helpstudioant.sourceforge.net - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
- - IDLDepend -
-idldepend is a task that (re)generates Java sources to be - created from CORBA/IDL files.
-It parses the IDL file and determines the Java files that - must be generated, taking in account the modifications that - can happen due to command line parameters. If any of the Java - files are missing or older than the source IDL specification, - it launches the specified compiler. The compilers of Orbacus, - Jacorb, OpenORB, Orbix2k and Sun'JDK distributions are - supported.
-To speed up the process and avoid unnecesary re-parsing, it - keeps the dependencies in intermediate files. This task does - not launch the javac compiler as well, that is, its output are - Java files and not the final bytecode.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 or later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.byteslooser.com/idldepend - | -
| - Contact: - | -- byteslooser@gmail.com - | -
| - License: - | -- free source, no license restrictions - | -
- - Image -
-Image task generates and transforms images. It exposes the - imaging capability available in Java2D, Java Advanced Imaging, - ImageIO, etc., as set of nested elements.
-Image transformations such as "resize"
- (scale),"overlay" (one image on another),
- "border" (add a border), "text" (text on
- image), "crop" (a sub-image of a bigger image),
- "rotate", "grayscale" (change a color
- image to shades of gray).
- Now it supports transparency (making images translucent), a
- bestfit option for Resize, simple support for images within
- a security-constraint, a preliminary support (if pjatools.jar
- is available) for saving files as GIF and some other fixes.
IMPORTANT: You will need the PMIW (Poor Man's Imaging Wrapper) jar - for all the operations and the pjatools jar for GIF encoding/ saving - support.
-Note: The website encourage the use of Ants internal image tasks. While the development - of these image tasks is stopped the development of the underlying PMIW should occur.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.mullassery.com/software/ANT/ - | -
| - pmiw jar - | -- http://www.mullassery.com/software/PMIW/ - (Poor Man's Imaging Wrapper) - | -
| - pjatools jar - | -- http://www.eteks.com/pja/en/ - (pjatools for GIF encoding support) - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Abey Mullassery - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - Importscrubber -
-Removes unnecessary import statements from a Java source code file.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.3 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://importscrubber.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Tom Copeland - | -
| - License: - | -- LGPL - | -
- - ImTask -
-ImTask is a task to allow one to send an Instant - Message. Currently supports yahoo!, AIM, and Jabber
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 or higher - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://imtask.sourceforge.net - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Jon Madison - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU LGPL - | -
- - Incanto -
-Ant tasks to provide support for Oracle database tools - (such as SQL*Plus, Import, Export)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://incanto.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Alexander Karnstedt - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License, Version 2.0 - | -
- - IsDirValidator -
-Checks whether a given directory structure conforms to - certain rules that are defined via nested elements of the - task.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://isvalidator.sourceforge.net/en/isDirValidator.htm - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Ińigo Serrano - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
- - Ivy -
-Ivy is a simple yet powerful dependency manager featuring - continuous integration, dependencies of dependencies - management, multiple repositories including ibiblio and high - performance (use of a local cache).
-| - Compatibility: - | -- 1.5.1 (1.6.5 or 1.7.1 recommended) - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- ivy-user (at) ant (dot) apache (dot) org [User Mailinglist] - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - J2ME Ant Tasks -
-There are different sets of tasks to help build Java 2 Platform, Micro - Edition (J2ME) applications.
-- - *** Antenna *** -
-Antenna provides a set of Ant tasks suitable for developing - wireless Java applications targeted at the Mobile Information - Device Profile (MIDP). With Antenna, you can compile, - preverify, package, obfuscate, and run your MIDP applications - (aka MIDlets), manipulate Java Application Descriptor (JAD) - files, as well as convert JAR files to PRC files designed to - run on MIDP for Palm OS. Deployment is supported via a - deployment task and a corresponding HTTP servlet for - Over-the-Air (OTA) provisioning. A small preprocessor allows - to generate different variants of a MIDlet from a single - source.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4.1 or later - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://antenna.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Jörg Pleumann - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU Lesser General Public License - | -
- - *** Antic *** -
-Antic is a freely available task for packaging J2ME - applications. It produces both the Jar and Jad files in a - single step. This allows *all* entries to be correclty set in - the jad file, including the size of the jar file that is - produced. This task has been used and tested extensively with - Sun's Wireless Toolkit and also the Nokia SDK and - emulators.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 - | -
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| - URL: - | -- http://www.smartkey.co.uk/tools/antic/antic.html - - | -
| - Contact: - | -- smartkey.co.uk - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
- - *** Dave's J2ME Tasks *** -
-This set supports CLDC and the K Virtual Machine (KVM):
-Note: As the website shows the 'most recent news' is from 18 Apr 2001
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.3 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Dave Dribin - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - *** J2ME Polish *** -
-J2ME Polish is an Ant-based tool for the creation of
- MIDP applications. It covers the whole circle of preprocessing, compiling,
- obfuscation, preverifying, packaging and JAD-creation. J2ME Polish is
- ideal for creating device optimized applications with its powerful
- preprocessing capabilities and the integrated device database.
- With J2ME Polish no hardcoded values are needed and the portability of an
- application is not sacrificed, even though highly optimized applications are
- created from a single source.
-
- It contains a logging framework and an optional MIDP-compatible GUI
- which can be designed using the web-standard CSS. With the J2ME Polish GUI
- you can even use MIDP/2.0 features on MIDP/1.0 phones.
-
| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4.1 or later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.j2mepolish.org/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Enough Software - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License; commercial licenses available - | -
- - *** Stampysoft's J2ME Tasks *** -
-And this set works with the J2ME Wireless Toolkit and MIDP - for PalmOS.
-Note: as the website shows, the 'current release' is from 11/5/2001
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.3 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.jeckels.com/ant/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Josh Eckels - | -
| - License: - | -- MIT License - | -
- - Jacson -
-Jacson is a configurable and plugable tool (much like Ant - itself) to create filters for text (line based) files without - programming.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Jacson has been used and tested with 1.5.1, should - work with 1.4+ - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://jacson.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- jacson-user@lists.sourceforge.de - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU Library or Lesser General Public License - | -
- - Jalopy -
-An Ant Plug-in for the Java Source Code Formatter - Jalopy.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 (or higher) - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://jalopy.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- http://jalopy.sf.net/contact.html - | -
| - License: - | -- Starting with release 1.0 Beta 6 the license is the - BSD License. Prior releases were under the GNU General - Public License. - | -
- - JarBundler -
-JarBundler is a task that generates Mac OS X native Java - Application Bundles. It is fully configurable and can be used - to generate Mac OS X application bundles from any supported - Java platform, making it ideal for targeting multiple - platforms with one build.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.loomcom.com/jarbundler/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Seth Morabito - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
- - JarPatch -
-JarPatch is a task that generates a zip file resulting of - the diff between the content of 2 jar files.
-The resulting diff file can be use as a patch for a - previous installation (just ensure that the generated - patch.zip file is located on the CLASSPATH before the patched - oldJar jar file).
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://norb.dnsalias.org/ant/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Norbert Barbosa - | -
| - License: - | -- LGPL License - | -
- - Java+ Precompile Task -
-Java+ is an open source Java preprocessor that adds these - features to any Java compiler:
--
-
- Multi-line strings with executable inclusions like Perl - and Ruby. It eliminates the need for JSP or ASP and their - need for Java compilers on deployment servers (a security - concern) while adding no overhead in either space or - time. - -
- Optionally supports localization by segregating Java+ - strings into ResourceBundle files with invarient keys based - on the hash code of the strings's value. This is handled - automatically and transparently; no intervention is - required. - -
- Fast. Negligible impact on build times. By default, - skips inputs whose outputs are up to date to avoid - triggering recompilations. - -
- Pure Java code, portable to any platform, with - graphical, shell and ant interfaces. - -
- Simple, general, recursive, digraph-driven string - syntax. Digraph characters are user-selectable. -
| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5.1 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://virtualschool.edu/java+/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Brad Cox - | -
| - License: - | -- BSD-like License - | -
- - Java2Html -
-There are two different tools both named Java2HTML that - process Java source code and generate syntax highlighted - documentation from it. Both include Ant tasks to run - them.
-Java2Html library for converting java source files - or snipplets to syntax highlighted html, rtf, tex and - others.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.java2html.de/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- java2html@jave.de - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
Java2HTML is a simple-to-use tool which converts a bunch of - Java Source Code into a colourized and browsable HTML - representation.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- 1.5.1 onwards - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.java2html.com/java2html_ant_task.html - | -
| - Contact: - | -- support@java2html.com - | -
| - License: - | -- FreeWare - | -
- - Javamake -
-A task to compile Java sources and manage class file - dependencies. Functionality is equivalent to that of standard - Javac and Depend tasks combined, with improved dependency - checking.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4.1 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Mikhail Dmitriev - | -
| - License: - | -- BSD-like License - | -
- - javarec -
-Ant tasks that generate record classes for VisualAge for - Java from Cobol copy books.
-Note: the website shows that the latest version 1.1 is from December 2, 2001
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://glezen.org/javarec/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Paul Glezen - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - JCSC -
-JCSC is a Java Coding Standard Checker which also features - the generation of some code metrics. It is a command line tool - with an Ant task to scan whole package trees. The result can - viewed in an JavaDoc style web page.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant >= 1.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://jcsc.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Ralph Jocham - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
- - JDeb -
-JDeb provides an Ant task and a Maven plugin to create - Debian packages from Java builds in a truly cross platform - manner. Build your Debian packages on any platform that has - Java support. Windows, Linux - it does not require - additional native tools installed.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.7 (not tested on earlier versions) - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://vafer.org/projects/jdeb/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Torsten Curdt - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - Jdiff -
-A task that generates an HTML report of all the packages, classes, - constructors, methods, and fields which have been removed, added or - changed in any way, including their documentation, when two APIs are - compared.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- - - http://javadiff.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Task Documentation: - | -- - - (in CVS) - | -
| - License: - | -- LGPL - | -
- - JFlex -
-JFlex is a lexical analyzer generator (also known as - scanner generator) for Java, written in Java.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://jflex.de/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- jflex-users mailing list - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License (GPL) - | -
- - JindentTask -
-JindentTask is a very straightforward wrapping of the - Jindent tool, a vendor code beautifier. It enables to use - Jindent natively from Ant.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4.1 and higher - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://the.edouard.mercier.free.fr/Jindent_content.php - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Edouard Mercier - | -
- - Jing Task -
-Validates XML files against the RELAX NG alternative to XML Schema. - The Jing task for Ant allows you to efficiently validate - multiple files against multiple RELAX NG patterns and integrate - RELAX NG validation with other XML processing.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- - http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing-ant.html - | -
| - License: - | -- BSD-like - | -
- - jMetra -
-jMetra is a tool for collecting code metrics across a - project lifecycle and compiling the results into - JavaDoc-styled documentation to analyze project metrics over - time. jMetra is best utilized by integrating it with your - project's scheduled build process.
-It works from the command line or using several provided - Ant tasks.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 and higher - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- - http://www.jmetra.com/ - - | -
| - Contact: - | -- - R Todd Newton - - - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial, free licenses for open source projects and - evaluations. - | -
- - JMX4Ant -
-JMX4Ant provides tasks for integration with JMX (Java Management - Extensions). It provides tasks for getting and setting attributes - of MBeans, invoking their methods and much more.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on May 28 2003. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 and higher - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- - http://jmx4ant.sourceforge.net/ - - | -
| - Contact: - | -- - Brian Dueck - - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - JNI -
-- - JNI is a free toolkit that makes easy work of - integrating Java and C through the Java Native - Interface (JNI). It includes a code generator that - generates both Java "proxy" classes to access C - "peer" classes, and C "proxy" classes to access - Java "peer" classes or interfaces. It also - includes a core library with a simplified JVM - interface as well as "helper" classes to ease - working with the JNI data types. The code - generation is driven by an XML project file that - can be created with the assistance of the GUI - Project Manager. The code generation can be - invoked either from Ant or from the - GUI. Includes a comprehensive printable PDF User - Guide and plenty of examples.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Jan 29 2002. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://jnipp.sf.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Phillip E. Trewhella - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU LGPL - | -
- - JPP -
-- JPP is a preprocessor for Ant supporting - many different file types that allows you to include / exclude contents based on - build-time parameters. It is completely invisible to other tools and takes the hassle - out of maintaining customised code or content. It is free, is provided as an Ant task, - and very simple to use. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.javapreprocessor.com - | -
| - Contact: - | -- info@javapreprocessor.com - | -
| - License: - | -- Freeware - | -
- - JReleaseInfo -
-Sometimes you are interested at runtime to have information - from build time. This may be the build date, a build number or - the version. The JReleaseInfo Ant Task generates a java - source file with getter methods for any desired and provided - properties. Furthermore, it can automatically generate a - viewer (which can e.g. be used as main-class in a library jar - file) that shows the included release information.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Aug 07 2005. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- HomePage on SourceForge - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Forums/Tracker on SourceForge - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - JRun Ant Tasks -
-JRun 4 SP1 ships with lib/jrun-ant-tasks.jar, which defines - three Ant tasks: jrun, jrunapp, and jrunjmx. Documentation - for the tasks can be found in JRun under - docs/ant/jrun.html.
-Note that the service pack must be installed on top of an - existing JRun 4 installation.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 or higher - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.adobe.com/products/jrun/ - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial - | -
- - JsDoc Toolkit Ant Task -
-JsDoc Toolkit is an application, written in JavaScript, for - automatically generating template-formatted, multi-page HTML - (or XML, JSON, or any other text-based) documentation from - commented JavaScript source code.
-This project is a simple wrapper around the JsDoc Toolkit - documentation program. It gives the user all the command - line options, with the flexibility of using in within an Ant - build file.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.7.0 or higher - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-toolkit-ant-task/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Darren Hurley - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - JSMin Ant Task -
-The JSMin Ant task can be used for the automated minification of javascript files - in your build and deploy processes.
-JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from javascript - files. It typically reduces filesize by half, resulting in faster downloads.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.5 or higher - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://code.google.com/p/jsmin-ant-task/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- M. Haynes - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - JudoScript Ant Task -
-The <judoscript> task is an easy way to embed JudoScript
- code in the Ant build script. The tag format is quite simple. You can
- either embed code directly, or can specify an external JudoScript program
- file as the src attribute value. Parameters can be specified
- as the params attribute; this is applicable to both embedded
- code and external files.
-
| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 or higher - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.judoscript.org/books/judoscript-0.9/chapters/ant.html - | -
| - Contact: - | -- James Jianbo Huang - | -
| - License: - | -- Lesser GNU Public License - | -
- - Just4log Ant Task -
-Just4log is a ant task to optimize JVM bytecode with regards - for Logs ( be it, Log4j, Apache Commons or JDK 1.4 ) - It depends on apache BCEL for Bytecode engineering.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Oct 19 2003. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5.2 or higher - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://just4log.sourceforge.net - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Lucas Bruand - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 1.1. - | -
- - Kanaputs -
-Kanaputs is a parser for java based scripting. It is an - interpreter for Java. With Kanaputs you can use Java as an - interpreted language: no more compilation, each instruction is - executed when you write it. It is a small programmation - language to make script files above Java.
-Kanaputs Ant Task provides a way to add any kind of - programmatic features in your Ant script. The code you insert - stays OS independent (because Kanaputs uses Java) and is - completely integrated with Ant as you can give Ant properties - to the Kanaputs code and get back the results in other - properties.
-Moreover, as you can invoke any kind of Java code with - Kanaputs, you can popup windows from your Ant file to ask the - user to do a choice.
-Note: the website - shows that the latest version 1.4 is from Nov 26, 2004. The mailing archive from - the last few months contains only spam...
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.2 and above - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -
-
- https://kanaputs.dev.java.net// - https://kanaputs.dev.java.net/ant.pdf - - |
-
| - Contact: - | -- - kfra@dev.java.net - - | -
| - License: - | -- Freeware - | -
- - LaTeX Task -
-Simple Task to use (PDF)LaTeX, BibTeX, Makeindex and GlossTeX to - create your documentation.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.2 and above - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -
-
- http://www.dokutransdata.de/ - http://www.dokutransdata.de/ant_latex/ - - |
-
| - Contact: - | -- - jaloma@dokutransdata.de - - | -
| - License: - | -- Freeware - | -
- - Macker -
-A build-time architectural testing tool, designed - to maintain clean layering / tiering / modularity. - Macker works against compiled class files, checking - dependencies between classes against a set of - pattern-based access rules you specify for your - project in an XML rules file. Macker doesn't presume - anything about your architecture -- you write the - rules, and Macker keeps you honest about them.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Nov 02 2003. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and higher (1.4 untested but may work) - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://innig.net/macker/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Paul Cantrell - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU GPL 2.0 - | -
- - MakeRunScript -
-MakeRunScript creates a run script for your application. Even if you are developing on windows, - you can make a run script for *nix and vice versa. If you've used the built-in java task before, you - already know how to use 90% of MakeRunScript.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.7 and higher - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/makerunscript/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- MakeRunScript forums - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache 2.0 - | -
- - mtxslt -
-The mtxslt (Multi-XSLT) extends the standard Ant "xslt/style" task - to make it easy to use multiple XSLT engines during the same build. - This is useful for regression testing of XSLT scripts against several - engines.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Oct 16 2002. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://mtxslt.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Anthony B. Coates - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - nsd2LaTeX Task -
-Simple Task to use nsd2ltx to build your Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.2 and above - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -
-
- http://www.dokutransdata.de/ - http://www.dokutransdata.de/ant_nsd2ltx/ - - |
-
| - Contact: - | -- - jaloma@dokutransdata.de - - | -
| - License: - | -- Freeware - | -
- - Nurflugel AntScript Visualizer -
-The Nurflugel AntScript Visualizer takes your build file, - finds any imported build files, and shows all relationships - between targets, taskdefs, macrodefs, Ant and Antcalls; output - options include PDF, SVG, and PNG. Many options including - grouping by build file, inclusion/exclusion of targets, - taskdefs, imports, etc. Installation is via Java WebStart, so - you'll always have the freshest version available.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.1 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.nurflugel.com/webstart/AntScriptVisualizer/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- dbullard <at> nurflugel <dot> com (email - will receive a challenge to weed out spam) - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
- - Orangevolt Ant Tasks -
-Orangevolt ANT Tasks is a collection of Tasks for Apache - Ant.
-The Orangevolt Ant Tasks collections provides a bunch of - Appplication Deployment related Tasks from windows specific - tasks (registry access, executable generation), *nix specific - tasks (kde/gnome shortcut generation) to many useful utility - tasks like jnlp generation.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 or above - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ovanttasks - | -
| - Contact: - | -- info@roxes.com - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License (GPL) - | -
- - pack -
-pack is a task to build the smallest possible JAR to link - and run one or more classes.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://sadun-util.sourceforge.net/pack.html - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Cristiano Sadun - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU Lesser General Public License - | -
- - PCT -
-PCT is a task to compile Progress code, and in a more general - way, to deal with Progress procedures and databases.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://pct.sourceforge.net - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Gilles QUERRET - | -
| - Licence: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - PesterCat Ant Toolkit -
-PesterCat is a web testing tool that was designed to - perform functional testing for web applications. The PesterCat - Ant Toolkit contains tasks to playback test scripts and create - HTML reports. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.pestercat.com/ - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial - | -
- - PMD -
-PMD checks Java source code for unused variables, - unnecessary object creation, etc
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 and higher - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://pmd.sf.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Tom Copeland - | -
| - License: - | -- BSD style license - | -
- - PRes -
-PRes is short for Property Resources and will generate a Java source - file from name=value pair .property files which can be compiled like any - other class.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and later (may work with earlier) - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://mseries.sourceforge.net - | -
| - Contact: - | -- MSeries - | -
| - License: - | -- LGPL - | -
- - ProGuard -
-ProGuard is - a free Java class file shrinker and obfuscator. It can detect - and remove unused classes, fields, methods, and attributes. It - can then rename the remaining classes, fields, and methods - using short meaningless names.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Tested with 1.5. Should work with all versions. - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- - http://proguard.sourceforge.net/ - - | -
| - Contact: - | -- - Feedback Page - - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
- - properties2java -
-Properties2Java is an Ant task for automatic conversion of - java ".properties" files to ".java" files extending the - java.util.ListResourceBundle.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Jun 04 2005. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6 or above - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://properties2java.jayefem.de/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Jan-Friedrich Mutter - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - Purge -
-Purge deletes all but the most recent few files from a fileset. - For example: if you have generated files (logs, .ear, .war, .jar - etc) accumulating in a directory, the purge task will allow you - to delete the older files, keeping just the most recent ones.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 or above - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.dallaway.com/ant/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Richard Dallaway - | -
| - License: - | -- LGPL - | -
- - RefactorIT -
-RefactorIT includes an Ant task for metrics and audits. - RefactorIT is a Java refactoring, audit and metrics tool. - It plugs into major Java IDEs, also runs stand-alone with - a GUI and a command line interface.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.refactorit.com/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- support@refactorit.com - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial. (Free for accredited open source products, see - http://www.refactorit.com/osc.) - | -
- - Reflectant Task -
-This is a task for reflection invocation from within ant build file.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 or above - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/reflectant/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- sv_ant@mail.bg - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - rundoc -
-A task designed to help with the single-sourcing of program - documentation. Rundoc replaces special commands - (in the format @@rundoc:command param1 param2...@@) embedded - within text files with their output in a - specified format. Currently, only Docbook format is supported.
-Rundoc was written to keep sample code output in program - documentation synchronized with the actual output - of the current code, by running the referenced code when the - documentation is built.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Tested with 1.6 Should work with all versions. - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.martiansoftware.com/lab/index.html#rundoc - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Marty Lamb - | -
| - License: - | -- Revised BSD - | -
- - SerialVer -
-SerialVer adds the Java serialver functionality to Apache - Ant. This project adds Tasks and FilterReaders to get, to - insert and to modify the serialVersionUID in the source code - of a serializable class.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5.1 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://serialver.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- developer mailing list - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - Simian -
-Simian (Similarity Analyser) identifies duplication in Java, - C#, C, CPP, COBOL, JSP, HTML source code and even plain text files.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5.1 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- - http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/products/simian/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- - simian-user-subscribe@redhillconsulting.com.au (User Mailinglist) - - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial, Free Licenses available for Non-Commercial Projects - | -
- - SmartAnalyzer -
-Powerful analysis of dependencies between Java classes. - Only affected classes will be recompiled and it can be used - with any bytecode compiler.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Feb 21 2003. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Apache Ant version 1.5.1 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://smartanalyzer.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- support at sourceforge project page - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public Licence (GPL) - | -
- - snip -
-A task designed to help with the single-sourcing of program documentation. - Snip extracts snippets of text from files, placing them into properties in the Ant project. - These properties can then be used by any other Ant task, and are particularly useful when - referenced by <filter>s within the <copy> task.
-Snip was originally written to keep snippets of sample code in API documentation synchronized - with the actual sample classes.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Tested with 1.5.1. Should work with all versions. - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.martiansoftware.com/lab/index.html#snip - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Marty Lamb - | -
| - License: - | -- Revised BSD - | -
- - spell -
-Website is gone and nothing found.
-- - SQL Compiler (SQLC) -
-SQL Compiler (SQLC) compiles database metadata and SQL statements into data access and data transfer classes.
-Note: It seems that the product is renamed to jIncarnate.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Tested with Ant 1.5.4 and 1.6.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.hammurapi.biz/products/sqlc - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Project Contact Page - | -
| - License: - | -- LGPL - | -
- - SQLUnit -
-SQLUnit is a regression and unit testing harness for testing - database stored procedures. The test suite is written as an XML file. - The SQLUnit harness itself is written in Java and uses the JUnit unit - testing framework to convert the XML test specifications to JDBC calls - and compare the results generated from the calls with the specified - results. It also provides the <sqlunit> task to run the tests - from a build script.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Tested with Ant 1.6 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://sqlunit.sourceforge.net - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Project forums - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License (GPL) - | -
- - Styler -
-The styler task makes useful combinations of XSLT transformations - easy to specify in an Ant build file. Like the built-in Ant task - style, styler can apply a single transformation to a set of XML files. - But it can also:
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-
- handle multiple transformations, in parallel or pipelined. -
- enable transformations that split or merge files -
- process non-XML files, especially HTML (based on JTidy) -
- apply non-XSLT transformation, especially "regular - fragmentations" -
- use any custom XMLReader or XMLFilter class to handle new file - formats and transformation techniques. -
| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.langdale.com.au/styler/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Arnold deVos - | -
| - License: - | -- LGPL - | -
- - Syntax -
-Transforms source files into HTML documents with syntax - highlighting. It can handle a variety of source files - including Java, HTML, C/C++, SQL, and Java properties. Colors - for elements are specified using cascading style sheets. The - output can be templated for easy integration with a site's - look and feel.
-A very short look into the scm - shows that the last modifications where in 2003.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://ostermiller.org/syntax/ant.html - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Stephen Ostermiller - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License (GPL) - | -
- - TestSetGenerator -
-The TestSetGenerator is an ant task for generating property files with - testsets based on the results of SQL queries and validation plug-ins. Very - usefull when building unit tests that make use of changing datasets. This - task is an extension of the Ant SQL task. Hsqldb is used for both the - examples and the unittests.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Jan 04 2004. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- ANT 1.4 (or later) - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://anttestsetgen.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- m.c.jansen@planet.nl - | -
| - License: - | -- GPL - | -
- - TiniAnt -
-TiniAnt is an Ant task to support building applications for - the TINI.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Mar 05 2002. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.2 to 1.4.1 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Sean Kelly - | -
| - License: - | -- BSD-like license - | -
- - Transformica -
-Transformica is a versatile and extensible code generator. - Supports multiple source models including database metadata, Java source files, grammar - files and custom models. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Tested with Ant 1.5.x and 1.6.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.hammurapi.biz/hammurapi-biz/ef/xmenu/hammurapi-group/products/transformica/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- email support - | -
| - License: - | -- - | -
- - Version_Tool -
-A versioning tool for Ant.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Feb 19 2004. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5.1 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://ant.ryangrier.com/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- version_tool@ryangrier.com - | -
| - License: - | -- BSD license - | -
- - VPP -
-VPP provides general file preprocessing support based on - the Velocity Template Engine. The core functionality is - provided as a filter for use with tasks that supports filter - chains. Also included are replacement tasks for <copy> and - <javac> that integrate support for preprocessing.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on May 06 2004. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- 1.5.1 and above - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://vpp.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- vpp-user@lists.sourceforge.net - | -
| - License: - | -- BSD license - | -
- - WOProject -
-WOProject provides a set of tools to work with - WebObjects 5.1 - independent from platform and IDE. It significantly - improves developer productivity - and makes complex project structures more flexible compared to - traditional Makefile-based approach. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://objectstyle.org/woproject/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Andrus Adamchik - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache license - | -
- - WSDLValidate -
-WSDLValidate is, as it sounds, a tool to validate WSDL files.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 or later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Project newsgroup and mailing list - | -
| - License: - | -- Common Public - License (CPL) - | -
- - Xcluder -
-xcluder is an XML Inclusions (XInclude) task for Apache Ant. - Offers the choice of using Xerces or Elliotte Rusty Harold's XOM API. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 or later. XInclude compliance depends on the - underlying Xerces or XOM used. Xerces 2.5.0 and above works fine, - but please note that 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 processed the - http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude, now obsolete by - http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude used by the latest - Candidate Recommendation (13 April 2004). - - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcluder - | -
| - Contact: - | -- mbatsis@users.sf.net - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Library or Lesser - General Public License (LGPL) - - | -
- - XDoclet -
-XDoclet is an extended Javadoc Doclet engine for use in Ant. - It lets you create custom Javadoc @tags and based on those tags - generates source code or other files (such as xml-ish deployment - descriptors). Templates and matching tasks are provided to generate - EJB and web application deployment descriptors. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet/ - | -
| - License: - | -- BSD license - | -
- - XInclude -
-XInclude is - a W3C standardized vocabulary for including arbitrary text or XML - documents in other XML documents. This task performes the inclusion - using an existing XInclude implementation
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5.2 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- - http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/xia/index.html - - | -
| - Contact: - | -- mario@jeckle.de - | -
| - License: - | -- Lesser GNU Public License - | -
- - XML Directory Listing Ant Task -
-The XML Directory Listing task can recurse through a directory structure and produce an - XML representation. The resulting file can then be transformed further with Ant.
-The XML output is configurable through various options. The SAX parsing is fast and has a - low memory footprint.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.5 or higher - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://code.google.com/p/xml-dir-listing/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- M. Haynes - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - XMLReleaseNotes (XRN) -
-This framework is a release notes framework that enables to - generate textual release notes from an XML file. This is an - open framework that enables to integrate the information - coming from VSC and bug tracking solutions, for instance.
-Note: As the Sourceforge project site - shows, the last update was on Sep 04 2005. (jhm)
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://xmlreleasenotes.free.fr/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Edouard Mercier - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - XmlTask -
-XmlTask provides a simple means to modify XML documents - without having to learn XSLT. A simple path reference to an - XML node specifies the node you want to change, and how you - want to allow XML insertion and removal, or attribute - changes. The emphasis is on providing the simplest means to - perform common XML replacements
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- xmltask-users at lists.sourceforge.net - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache Software License 1.1 - | -
- - yGuard -
-yGuard is a free Java(TM) Bytecode Obfuscator Task that - needs no external script or project files. It can completely - be configured and run through the Ant build script. The task - supports multiple Jar files at once and makes use of - patternsets and regular expressions to specify elements, which - should be left unobfuscated. Additionally it can be used to - produce patches for obfuscated applications that have already - been deployed.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yguard_about.htm - | -
| - Contact: - | -- yGuard@yWorks.com - | -
| - License: - | -- Library: LGPL, Task: Commercial - | -
- - Zelix KlassMaster -
-The task ZKMTask allows the Zelix KlassMaster Java obfuscator to be integrated into an Ant build.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4.1 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.zelix.com/klassmaster/docs/buildToolApi.html - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial - | -
- - Build Listeners -
-- - AntUtility -
-- Wondering why your Ant build is slow? Is your continuous integration server taking too - long to produce your project builds? This project may help. This project includes a small - number of classes for use with Ant that can help you to analyze your build in a - non-intrusive manner. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- https://antutility.dev.java.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- David Green - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache - License 2.0 - | -
- - Compiler Implementations -
-- - Generics (JSR14) Early-Access Compiler Adapter -
-This is an Ant compiler-adapter that allows you to use the
- normal <javac> task plus Sun's early-access
- compiler to compile Generics-enabled Java code. (This is only
- necessary until JDK1.5 is released.)
| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.madbean.com/blog/3/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Matt Quail <spud[at]madbean[dot]com> - | -
| - License: - | -- Public Domain - | -
-
- miniRMI <rmic> implementation
-
- miniRMI is a freeware opensource library that serves as a
- lightweight replacement for the original java.rmi packages and
- is suitable especially for applets. Ant 1.4+
- <rmic> adapter included.
| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://dione.zcu.cz/~toman40/miniRMI/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Petr Toman - | -
| - License: - | -- Gnu Lesser Public License - | -
- - IDE and Editor Integration -
-- - AntFarm -
-A plugin that integrates Ant into the jEdit editor.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- bundles Ant 1.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?AntFarm - | -
| - Contact: - | -- jEdit developers mailinglist - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
- - AntRunner -
-An OpenTool that integrates Ant into the JBuilder IDE - (version 5 and later).
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.2 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://antrunner.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Dirk Schnelle - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
- - CAPlex -
-CA Plex is an architected RAD tool that combines the techniques of - model-driven development, code generation and patterns to create - business applications for multiple platforms, including Java, .NET and - IBM System i. In its 6.0 release, CA Plex includes integrated support - for building generated Java code with Ant.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://wiki.plexinfo.net/index.php?title=Customizing_Plex_6.0_ANT_builds - | -
| - Contact: - | -- http://www.ca.com/us/products/product.aspx?ID=258 - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial - | -
- - Eclipse -
-Eclipse is a universal tool platform with Ant integration.
-| - Compatibility: - | -
-
- Ant 1.3 and higher - Bundles Ant 1.6.2 as of Eclipse 3.0.1 (tested with Ant 1.5.4 - 1.6.2) - Eclipse 3.2 bundles Ant 1.6.5 - Eclipse 3.3 bundles Ant 1.7.0 - - |
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|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- - http://www.eclipse.org/ - or - - http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-ant-home/index.html - - - | -
| - Contact: - | -- news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.platform - | -
| - License: - | -- Common Public License Version 1.0 - | -
- - Gel -
-Java IDE with support for Ant. Gel is a native Microsoft Windows software.
-Note: The website recommends using another IDE because GEL is not longer maintained.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.4 and above - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.gexperts.com/products/gel/gel.asp - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Project Mailing List - | -
| - License: - | -- Freeware - | -
- - IntelliJ IDEA -
-Java IDE with refactoring support and Ant integration. - The IDE has special editing and navigation support for Ant. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- bundles Ant 1.6.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.intellij.com/idea/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- support@intellij.com - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial; Academic and OpenSource licenses available. - | -
- - JBuilder -
-Embarcadero JBuilder comes (as Eclipse based product) with built-in Ant support.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Bundles Ant 1.6 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.codegear.com/en/products/jbuilder - | -
| - Contact: - | -- http://support.codegear.com/en - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial; Turbo JBuilder 2007 is free. - | -
- - JDEE -
-The Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDEE) supports - Apache Ant as one of three built-in ways to build your - applications.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.2 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://jdee.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- JDEE Mailing list. - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU General Public License - | -
- - NetBeans -
-A module that integrates Ant into the NetBeans IDE, as well as derivative products such as Sun Java - Studio (formerly Forte for Java and Sun ONE Studio) and Sun Java Studio Creator. - This IDE uses Ant as its sole means of building applications, - with custom tasks and an Ant-aware editor.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- bundles 1.7.0 for NetBeans 6.0 and 6.1, 1.7.1 for 6.5 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.netbeans.org/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- nbdev@netbeans.org - | -
| - License: - | -- Common Development and Distribution License / GNU General Public License - | -
- - Optistic IDX Java IDE -
-Java IDE with deep Ant integration. IDX is a native Microsoft Windows program.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- bundles Ant 1.6 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- - http://optistic.com/idx - - | -
| - Contact: - | -- - support@optistic.com - - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial; Academic and OpenSource licenses available. - | -
- - Oracle JDeveloper 10i -
-Java IDE with support for Ant.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5.1 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/index.html - | -
| - Contact: - | -- JDeveloper Forum - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial - | -
- - Virtual Ant -
-- Instead of manually creating build scripts in XML, Virtual Ant provides a fully virtual file system - where you can run your tasks in real time and see the results. Everything that you do is recorded and - turned into an Ant build script. -
-| - Compatibility: - | -- - Ant 1.6.5 onwards - - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- - http://www.placidsystems.com/virtualant/ - - | -
| - Contact: - | -- - support@placidsystems.com - - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial; OpenSource licenses available too. - | -
- - WebSphere Studio Application Developer -
-WSAD features Ant integrate by virtue of being built on the Eclipse tools platform.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- bundles Ant 1.4.1 - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/ - | -
| - Article: - | -- Using Ant with WebSphere Studio Application Developer - | -
| - License: - | -- Commercial - | -
- - Source Control Systems -
-There are several integration with SCM systems. Some are - built in. But some are available as - external libraries. Here a list of task libraries we are aware of:
-- - ANT4HG -
-These are tasks that allow users to access Mercurial - functionality from within Ant build scripts.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.7 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- http://ant4hg.free.fr - | -
| - Contact: - | -- ant4hg@free.fr - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU Lesser General Public License - | -
- - clearAntLib -
-This library is a collection of "value-add" Ant tasks for integrating - IBM Rational ClearCase with Apache Ant. The integration makes full use - of the power and capabilities of Ant, with support for nested elements - (such as filesets) and also supports conditions. There are a number of - tasks for creating XML reports on both ClearCase baselines and labels as - well as a task for "staging" ClearCase objects.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.6.1 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- - http://clearantlib.sourceforge.net/ - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Forum - | -
| - License: - | -- Apache License 2.0 - | -
- - Surround SCM -
-These are tasks that allow users to access Surround SCM - functionality from within Ant build scripts.
-| - Compatibility: - | -- Ant 1.5 and later - | -
|---|---|
| - URL: - | -- - Surround SCM Resource Center - | -
| - Contact: - | -- Seapine Support - | -
| - License: - | -- GNU Lesser General Public License - | -