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External Tools and Tasks

> This page lists external resources for Apache Ant: tasks, IDE integration tools, loggers, you name it. If you've written something that should be included, please post all relevant information to one of the mailing lists.

> Nothing listed here is directly supported by the Ant developers, 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
> > URL: | http://aspectj.org/dl
> > Contact: | support@aspectj.org
> > License: | Apache Software 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
> > URL: | http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html
> > Contact: | Velocity mailing lists
> > License: | Apache Software License

> 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 1.2 to 1.4.1
> > 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.

> 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'.

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.2 and 1.3
> > URL: | http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/
> > Contact: | M.J.P. van Leeuwen
> > License: | License derived from Apache Software License

> Doxygen task

> > Ant task for running the Doxygen documentation system.

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.1 and later
> > URL: | http://www.bgw.org/projects/java/ant/
> > Contact: | Kyle R. Burton
> > License: | Apache Software Foundation 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
> > URL: | http://www.riggshill.com/projects/genjar/
> > Contact: | John Kohler
> > License: | Apache Software Foundation License

> Importscrubber

> > Removes unnecessary import statements from a Java source code file.

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.3
> > URL: | http://importscrubber.sourceforge.net/
> > Contact: | Tom Copeland
> > License: | LGPL

> IsDirValidator

> > Checks whether a given directory structure conforms to certain rules that are defined via nested elements of the task.

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.4
> > URL: | http://isvalidator.sourceforge.net/en/isDirValidator.htm
> > Contact: | Iņigo Serrano
> > License: | GNU General Public License

> 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

> J2ME Ant Tasks

> > There are two different sets of tasks to help build Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) applications.

> > This set supports CLDC and the K Virtual Machine (KVM):

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.3
> > URL: | http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/
> > Contact: | Dave Dribin
> > License: | Apache Software License

> > And this set works with the J2ME Wireless Toolkit and MIDP for PalmOS:

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.3
> > URL: | http://www.stampysoft.com/ant/
> > Contact: | Josh Eckels
> > License: | MIT License

> javarec

> > Ant tasks that generate record classes for VisualAge for Java from Cobol copy books.

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.4
> > URL: | http://glezen.org/javarec/
> > Contact: | Paul Glezen
> > License: | Apache Software License

> 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:

> > - 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

> Tidy Imports (Tim)

> > Tim is a handy utility that can be executed on the command line or via Ant that automatically formats your import declarations. Tim is capable of removing unused imports, expanding or collapsing imports and even organising them into pre-determined groups.

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.3 and later
> > URL: | http://www.chive.com/tim.htm
> > Contact: | support@chive.com
> > License: | Commercial

> TiniAnt

> > TiniAnt is an Ant task to support building applications for the TINI.

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.2 to 1.4.1
> > URL: | http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/
> > Contact: | Sean Kelly
> > License: | BSD-like license

> Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite

> > Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite allows you to sign and package your applications into relocatable Web Archives that you can drop into your web server for single-click launching using Java Web Start or into single Java Archive installers that serve up their content through a built-in, multi-threaded, ultra light-weight web server.

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.2 and 1.3
> > URL: | http://www.geocities.com/vamp201/ant.html
> > Contact: | Gerald Bauer
> > License: | GNU General Public License

> 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

Compiler Implementations

> 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 1.3
> > URL: | http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/AntFarm
> > Contact: | jEdit developers mailinglist
> > License: | Apache Software License

> AntMan

> > An AddIn that integrates Ant with the JDeveloper IDE

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.4.1
> > URL: | http://www.erudra.com/antman/index.html
> > Contact: | Ashok Sridhar
> > License: | GNU General Public License

> AntRunner

> > An OpenTool that integrates Ant into the JBuilder IDE.

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.2 and 1.3
> > URL: | http://www.dieter-bogdoll.de/java/AntRunner/
> > Contact: | Dieter Bogdoll
> > License: | GNU General Public License

> AntWork

> > A plugin that integrates Ant into the Jext editor.

> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.2 and 1.3
> > URL: | ftp://jext.sourceforge.net/pub/jext/plugins/AntWork.zip
> > Contact: | Klaus Hartlage
> > License: | GNU General Public License

> IntelliJ IDEA 2.0

> > Java IDE with refactoring support and Ant integration.

> > Compatibility: | bundles Ant 1.3
> > URL: | http://www.intellij.com/idea/
> > Contact: | support@intellij.com
> > License: | Commercial

> JDE(E) 2.2.8

> > 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://jde.sunsite.dk/
> > Contact: | JDEE Mailing list.
> > License: | GNU General Public License

> NetBeans / Forte for Java

> > A module that integrates Ant into the NetBeans or Forte for Java IDEs.

> > Compatibility: | bundles Ant 1.4.1
> > URL: | http://ant.netbeans.org/
> > Contact: | nbdev@netbeans.org
> > License: | Sun Public License

> HP RadPak

> > RadPak comes with the (free) HP Bluestone HPAS J2EE server, and is primarily a GUI tool for packaging and deploying java web and EJB applications as WAR and EAR files. The tool is ant based, and can be used with as a GUI for general ant development, providing form based entry of task attributes, and an animated display of task execution.

> > Compatibility: | bundles Ant 1.3 and docs; adds a jar of extra tasks to any existing ant installation under ANT_HOME
> > URL: | http://www.bluestone.com/products/hp-as/
> > License: | Proprietary but free to download

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