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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

#### 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
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#### 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
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#### 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
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#### 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 |