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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: | 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
> 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
> 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
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
> 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
Other
> AntHill
> > Anthill is a build tool that promotes a controlled build process by ensuring that every build reflects the source repository contents and tagging the repository with a unique build number after every build. Anthill also encourages the sharing of knowledge within an organization by automatically updating a project intranet site with artifacts from the latest build.
> > Compatibility: | bundles Ant 1.3, is compatible with Ant 1.3 to 1.4.1
> > URL: | http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/
> > Contact: | Maciej Zawadzki
> > License: | Mozilla-like license
> CruiseControl
> > CruiseControl is a tool for setting up a continuous build process. CruiseControl provides an Ant wrapper and a set of tasks to automate the checkout/build/test cycle. CruiseControl also comes bundled with a servlet for viewing the status of the current build, as well as previous build results.
> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.2 and higher
> > URL: | http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/
> > Contact: | Project Mailing Lists and Administrators
> > License: | Release 1.0 has been licensed under the GNU General Public License. Starting with release 1.1 the license has been changed to a BSD-like license.
> XML Publication
> > XML Publication is a set of tools to generate Web pages from desktop documents or other structured documents using XSLT and Ant.
> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.4
> > URL: | http://XMLpublication.org/
> > Contact: | Jean-Marc Vanel
> > License: | GNU General Public License.
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