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    <author email="bodewig@apache.org">Stefan Bodewig</author>
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    <section name="External Tools and Tasks">

      <p>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.</p>

      <p>Nothing listed here is directly supported by the Ant
      developers, if you encounter any problems with them, please use
      the contact information.</p>

    </section>

    <section name="Tasks">
      <subsection name="AJC">

        <p><a href="http://aspectj.org">AspectJ</a> is an
          aspect-oriented extension to Java.  This task compiles a
          source tree using the AspectJ compiler -- AJC.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.3</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://aspectj.org/dl">http://aspectj.org/dl</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:support@aspectj.org">support@aspectj.org</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>Apache Software License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="Anakia">

        <p>Actually, Anakia is more than just an Ant task, it is a an
        XML transformation tool based on JDOM, Velocity and Ant.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.2 and later</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html">http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html">Velocity mailing lists</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>Apache Software License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="Checkstyle">

        <p>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.</p>

        <p>Checkstyle can be run via an Ant task or a command line
        utility.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.2 to 1.4.1</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/">http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:checkstyle@puppycrawl.com">Oliver Burn</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>GNU General Public License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="Configure">

        <p>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.</p>
        
        <p>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 &apos;setup&apos; or
        &apos;rescan&apos;.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/">http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:lemval@dsdelft.nl">M.J.P. van Leeuwen</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>License derived from Apache Software License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="Doxygen task">
        <p>Ant task for running the Doxygen documentation system.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.1 and later</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.bgw.org/projects/java/ant/">http://www.bgw.org/projects/java/ant/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:mortis@voicenet.com">Kyle R. Burton</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>Apache Software Foundation License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="GenJar">
        <p>Builds a JAR file based on class dependencies rather than simply the contents of a directory</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.4 alpha (built after 2001/08/04) and later</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.riggshill.com/projects/genjar/">http://www.riggshill.com/projects/genjar/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:jake@riggshill.com">John Kohler</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>Apache Software Foundation License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="Importscrubber">
        <p>Removes unnecessary import statements from a Java source code file.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.3</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://importscrubber.sourceforge.net/">http://importscrubber.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:tomcopeland@users.sourceforge.net">Tom Copeland</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>LGPL</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="Javamake">

        <p>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.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.4.1</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html">http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:Mikhail.Dmitriev@eng.sun.com">Mikhail Dmitriev</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>BSD-like License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="J2ME Ant Tasks">

        <p>There are two different sets of tasks to help build <a
        href="http://java.sun.com/j2me/">Java 2 Platform, Micro
        Edition</a> (J2ME) applications.</p>
        
        <p>This set supports CLDC and the K Virtual Machine (KVM):</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.3</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/">http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:drib@enteract.com">Dave Dribin</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>Apache Software License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>

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

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.3</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.stampysoft.com/ant/">http://www.stampysoft.com/ant/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:jeckels@stampysoft.com">Josh Eckels</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>MIT License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>

      </subsection>

      <subsection name="javarec">

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

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.4</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://glezen.org/javarec/">http://glezen.org/javarec/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:pglezen@us.ibm.com">Paul Glezen</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>Apache Software License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="Styler">

        <p>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:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>handle multiple transformations, in parallel or pipelined.</li>
          <li>enable transformations that split or merge files</li>
          <li>process non-XML files, especially HTML (based on JTidy)</li>
          <li>apply non-XSLT transformation, especially "regular
          fragmentations"</li>
          <li>use any custom XMLReader or XMLFilter class to handle new file
          formats and transformation techniques.</li>
        </ul>
        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.4</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.langdale.com.au/styler/">http://www.langdale.com.au/styler/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:adv@langdale.com.au">Arnold deVos</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>LGPL</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="TiniAnt">

        <p>TiniAnt is an Ant task to support building applications for
        the <a href="http://www.ibutton.com/TINI/">TINI</a>.</p>
        
        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.2 to 1.4.1</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/">http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:kelly@ad1440.net">Sean Kelly</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>BSD-like license</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite">

        <p>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.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.geocities.com/vamp201/ant.html">http://www.geocities.com/vamp201/ant.html</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:vamp201@yahoo.com">Gerald Bauer</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>GNU General Public License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>
      
      <subsection name="XDoclet">

        <p>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.
           </p>
        
        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.4</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>BSD license</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

    </section>

    <section name="IDE and Editor Integration">

      <subsection name="AntFarm">

        <p>A plugin that integrates Ant into the jEdit editor.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>bundles Ant 1.3</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/AntFarm">http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/AntFarm</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:jedit-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">jEdit developers mailinglist</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>Apache Software License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="AntRunner">

        <p>An OpenTool that integrates Ant into the JBuilder IDE.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.dieter-bogdoll.de/java/AntRunner/">http://www.dieter-bogdoll.de/java/AntRunner/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:bogdoll@users.sourceforge.net">Dieter Bogdoll</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>GNU General Public License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="AntWork">

        <p>A plugin that integrates Ant into the Jext editor.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="ftp://jext.sourceforge.net/pub/jext/plugins/AntWork.zip">ftp://jext.sourceforge.net/pub/jext/plugins/AntWork.zip</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:KHartlage@t-online.de">Klaus Hartlage</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>GNU General Public License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="IntelliJ IDEA 2.0">

        <p>Java IDE with refactoring support and Ant integration.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>bundles Ant 1.3</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.intellij.com/idea/">http://www.intellij.com/idea/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:support@intellij.com">support@intellij.com</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>Commercial</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="JDE(E) 2.2.8">

        <p>The Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDEE) supports
        Apache Ant as one of three built-in ways to build your
        applications.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.2 and later</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://jde.sunsite.dk/">http://jde.sunsite.dk/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:jde-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk">JDEE Mailing list.</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>GNU General Public License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="NetBeans / Forte for Java">

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

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>bundles Ant 1.4.1</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://ant.netbeans.org/">http://ant.netbeans.org/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href="mailto:nbdev@netbeans.org">nbdev@netbeans.org</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>Sun Public License</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="HP RadPak">

        <p>
        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. 
        </p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>bundles Ant 1.3 and docs; adds a jar of extra tasks
            to any existing ant installation under ANT_HOME</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.bluestone.com/products/hp-as/">http://www.bluestone.com/products/hp-as/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>Proprietary but free to download</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>
    </section>
    
    <section name="Other">
      <subsection name="AntHill">
        <p>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.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>bundles Ant 1.3, is compatible with Ant 1.3 to 1.4.1</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/">http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href ='mailto:mbz@urbancode.com'>Maciej Zawadzki</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>Mozilla-like license</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="CruiseControl">
        <p>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.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.2 and higher</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/">http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href ='http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/contact.html'>Project Mailing Lists and Administrators</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>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.</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>

      <subsection name="XML Publication">

        <p>XML Publication is a set of tools to generate Web pages
        from desktop documents or other structured documents using
        XSLT and Ant.</p>

        <table>
          <tr>
            <th>Compatibility:</th>
            <td>Ant 1.4</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>URL:</th>
            <td><a href="http://XMLpublication.org/">http://XMLpublication.org/</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>Contact:</th>
            <td><a href ="mailto:jmvanel@free.fr">Jean-Marc Vanel</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <th>License:</th>
            <td>GNU General Public License.</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </subsection>
    </section>

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