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External Tools and Tasks
This page lists external resources for 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 1.3
> > 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 and 1.3
> > URL: | http://www.puppycrawl.com/checkstyle
> > 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
> 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
> TiniAnt
> > TiniAnt is an Ant task to support building applications for the TINI.
> > Compatibility: | Ant 1.2 and 1.3
> > 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
IDE/Editor Integration
> 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
> NetBeans / Forte for Java
> > A module that integrates Ant into the NetBeans or Forte for Java IDEs.
> > Compatibility: | bundles Ant 1.3
> > URL: | http://ant.netbeans.org/
> > Contact: | nbdev@netbeans.org
> > License: | Sun Public License
Other
> 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 1.3
> > 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.
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