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# Ant Libraries - The Sandbox

The sandbox is the place where new Ant Libraries start their life, it is a playground for Ant committers and other contributors who find committers to sponsor their ideas.

The sandbox is no dumping ground. If a Sandbox Ant Library fails to attract interest within a reasonable amount of time, it gets removed from the sandbox.

### Current Sandbox Ant Libraries

#### Compress

The compress library offers tasks and types for additional archive formats like CPIO and AR supported by Apache Commons Compress.

SVN URL: | https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/antlibs/compress/
ViewSVN: | http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/sandbox/antlibs/compress/
Ant compatibility: | Ant 1.8.x
Added to sandbox: | 2009-07-31
Sponsoring Committers | Stefan Bodewig

#### DBPatch

DBPatch library is intended to maintain versioning of a database schema and data during iterative development.

SVN URL: | https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/antlibs/dbpatch/
ViewSVN: | http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/sandbox/antlibs/dbpatch/
Ant compatibility: | Ant 1.7.x
Added to sandbox: | 2008-04-22
Sponsoring Committers | Stefan Bodewig

#### Debian - Debian related tasks

Debian provides tasks for generating Debian packages.

SVN URL: | https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/antlibs/debian/trunk/
ViewSVN: | http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/sandbox/antlibs/debian/trunk/
Ant compatibility: | Ant 1.7.x
Added to sandbox: | 2007-05-18
Sponsoring Committers | Kevin Jackson

#### FSCache - Filesystem Resource cache

This is a library of tasks and types to cache arbitrary Ant resources to the filesystem for processing with file-based tools.

SVN URL: | https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/antlibs/fscache/trunk/
ViewSVN: | http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/sandbox/antlibs/fscache/trunk/
Ant compatibility: | Ant 1.8.x
Added to sandbox: | 2008-06-30
Sponsoring Committers | Matt Benson

#### GenDoc - Generate the manual for Ant Tasks from their sources

Most of the information needed for writing the manual is inside the sources: attributes, nested elements (especially inherited one). GenDoc collects these information and generates the manual as xml page. Following steps transform this xml into the final format (HTML in the first step, PDF may follow).

SVN URL: | http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/antlibs/gendoc/
ViewSVN: | http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/sandbox/antlibs/gendoc/
Ant compatibility: | Ant 1.7.x
Added to sandbox: | 2005-04-15
Sponsoring Committers |

#### HTTP - tasks for handling HTTP requests

This antlib contains tasks to make the basic HTTP requests: get, post, head, put, with Basicauthentication.

SVN URL: | http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/antlibs/http/
ViewSVN: | http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/sandbox/antlibs/http/
Ant compatibility: | Ant 1.7.x
Added to sandbox: | 2006-06-27
Sponsoring Committers |

#### Manual4Eclipse - Generate an Eclipse Help PlugIn from Ant's manual

This AntLib provides tasks for generating an Eclipse Help PlugIn from Ant's manual.

SVN URL: | http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/antlibs/manual4eclipse/
ViewSVN: | http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/sandbox/antlibs/manual4eclipse/trunk/
Ant compatibility: | Ant 1.7.x
Java compatibility: | Java 1.5+
Added to sandbox: | 2007-03-01
Sponsoring Committers |

#### Minify

Minify library offers tasks for minimizing JavaScript scripts.

SVN URL: | https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/antlibs/minify/
ViewSVN: | http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/sandbox/antlibs/minify/
Ant compatibility: | Ant 1.7.x
Added to sandbox: | 2009-01-01
Sponsoring Committers | Kevin Jackson

#### Props - additional Property Resolver

This is a library of supplementary handlers for Ant properties resolution.

SVN URL: | https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/antlibs/props/trunk/
ViewSVN: | http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/sandbox/antlibs/props/trunk/
Ant compatibility: | Ant 1.8.x
Added to sandbox: | 2007-07-25
Sponsoring Committers | Matt Benson

#### StarTeam

This antlib provides tasks for working with the StarTeam SCM.

SVN URL: | https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/antlibs/starteam/
ViewSVN: | http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/sandbox/antlibs/starteam/
Ant compatibility: | Ant 1.7.x
Added to sandbox: | 2007-08-27
Sponsoring Committers | Peter Reilly

#### VSS - Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Tasks

This antlib provides an interface to the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe SCM. The original tasks (org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.vss) have been expanded upon in this antlib. Some fixes to issues in the original tasks have also been incorporated.

SVN URL: | http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/antlibs/vss/
ViewSVN: | http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/sandbox/antlibs/vss/
Ant compatibility: | Ant 1.7.x
Added to sandbox: | 2006-04-26
Sponsoring Committers |

#### WebLogic

This antlib provides tasks for working with the WebLogic app server.

SVN URL: | https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/antlibs/weblogic/
ViewSVN: | http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/sandbox/antlibs/weblogic/
Ant compatibility: | Ant 1.7.x
Added to sandbox: | 2007-08-20
Sponsoring Committers | Peter Reilly, Stefan Bodewig