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  16. <document>
  17. <properties>
  18. <author email="bodewig@apache.org">Stefan Bodewig</author>
  19. <title>External Tools and Tasks</title>
  20. </properties>
  21. <body>
  22. <section name="External Tools and Tasks">
  23. <p>This page lists external resources for Apache Ant: <a
  24. href="#Tasks">Tasks</a>, <a
  25. href="#Compiler%20Implementations">Compiler Implementations</a>,
  26. <a href="#IDE%20and%20Editor%20Integration">IDE integration
  27. tools</a>, <a href="#Source%20Control%20ystems">Source Control
  28. Systems</a>, loggers, you name it. If you've written
  29. something that should be included, please post all relevant
  30. information to one of the mailing lists. For details, see the
  31. <a href="faq.html#adding-external-tasks">FAQ</a>.</p>
  32. <p>Nothing listed here is directly supported by the Ant
  33. developers (therefore '<i>external</i> tools and tasks'),
  34. if you encounter any problems with them, please use
  35. the contact information.</p>
  36. </section>
  37. <section name="Tasks">
  38. <subsection name="AJC">
  39. <p><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/">AspectJ</a> is an
  40. aspect-oriented extension to Java. This task compiles a
  41. source tree using the AspectJ compiler -- AJC.</p>
  42. <table class="externals">
  43. <tr>
  44. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  45. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  46. </tr>
  47. <tr>
  48. <th>URL:</th>
  49. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/">http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/</a></td>
  50. </tr>
  51. <tr>
  52. <th>Contact:</th>
  53. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/">project mailing lists</a></td>
  54. </tr>
  55. <tr>
  56. <th>License:</th>
  57. <td>Eclipse Public License</td>
  58. </tr>
  59. </table>
  60. </subsection>
  61. <subsection name="Anakia">
  62. <p>Actually, Anakia is more than just an Ant task, it is a an
  63. XML transformation tool based on JDOM, Velocity and Ant.</p>
  64. <table class="externals">
  65. <tr>
  66. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  67. <td>Ant 1.2 and later</td>
  68. </tr>
  69. <tr>
  70. <th>URL:</th>
  71. <td><a href="http://velocity.apache.org/anakia/devel/">http://velocity.apache.org/anakia/devel/</a></td>
  72. </tr>
  73. <tr>
  74. <th>Contact:</th>
  75. <td><a href="http://velocity.apache.org/contact.html">Velocity mailing lists</a></td>
  76. </tr>
  77. <tr>
  78. <th>License:</th>
  79. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  80. </tr>
  81. </table>
  82. </subsection>
  83. <subsection name="Andariel">
  84. <p>Andariel is a set of tasks designed to help the generation of HTML
  85. (and other markup languages) pages from Ant. Includes a XPath processor,
  86. an image information retriever, and others.</p>
  87. <table class="externals">
  88. <tr>
  89. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  90. <td>Ant 1.5.4 and newer</td>
  91. </tr>
  92. <tr>
  93. <th>URL:</th>
  94. <td><a href="http://andariel.uworks.net/">http://andariel.uworks.net/</a></td>
  95. </tr>
  96. <tr>
  97. <th>Contact:</th>
  98. <td>josep DOT rio AT uworks DOT net</td>
  99. </tr>
  100. <tr>
  101. <th>License:</th>
  102. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  103. </tr>
  104. </table>
  105. </subsection>
  106. <subsection name="Ant2Svg">
  107. <p>Ant2Svg creates a graphical representation of an Ant build file.
  108. The graphical representation is in the form of a Scalable Vector
  109. Graphics (SVG) file that can be displayed in a web browser. This
  110. simplified SVG depiction helps the developer understand build file
  111. structure and identify extraneous or missing dependencies.</p>
  112. <table class="externals">
  113. <tr>
  114. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  115. <td>Ant 1.6.1 and higher</td>
  116. </tr>
  117. <tr>
  118. <th>URL:</th>
  119. <td><a href="http://www.spiritedsw.com/ant2svg/">http://www.spiritedsw.com/ant2svg/</a></td>
  120. </tr>
  121. <tr>
  122. <th>Contact:</th>
  123. <td>loney &lt;at&gt; spiritedsw &lt;dot&gt; com</td>
  124. </tr>
  125. <tr>
  126. <th>License:</th>
  127. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  128. </tr>
  129. </table>
  130. </subsection>
  131. <subsection name="ant4eclipse">
  132. <p>ant4eclipse provides a set of Ant tasks to make several
  133. configurations from the Eclipse IDE available in Ant
  134. buildscripts. The tasks are aimed to avoid redundancy between
  135. Eclipse and Ant configurations in order to build small but
  136. powerful build systems for the continuous integration
  137. process</p>
  138. <table class="externals">
  139. <tr>
  140. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  141. <td>Ant 1.6.1 and higher</td>
  142. </tr>
  143. <tr>
  144. <th>URL:</th>
  145. <td><a href="http://ant4eclipse.sf.net">http://ant4eclipse.sf.net</a></td>
  146. </tr>
  147. <tr>
  148. <th>Contact:</th>
  149. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=137377">
  150. ant4eclipse user mailing list</a>
  151. </td>
  152. </tr>
  153. <tr>
  154. <th>License:</th>
  155. <td>Sun Public License</td>
  156. </tr>
  157. </table>
  158. </subsection>
  159. <subsection name="Antcount">
  160. <p>Antcount is a set of filters that can be used to gather statistics
  161. from files or resources. It is mainly used for log files analysis.
  162. It allows to:<ul>
  163. <li>count inputs (lines, strings)</li>
  164. <li>count occurrences of each input</li>
  165. <li>calculate average, max and min values of floats in input</li>
  166. </ul>
  167. Antcount also includes some useful filters to:<ul>
  168. <li>stop filtering: read everything but write nothing</li>
  169. <li>echo input to the console or to a file. This allows users to create
  170. several files at once</li>
  171. <li>split the stream in two for parallel processing</li>
  172. </ul>
  173. </p>
  174. <table class="externals">
  175. <tr>
  176. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  177. <td>Ant 1.6.2 and higher</td>
  178. </tr>
  179. <tr>
  180. <th>URL:</th>
  181. <td><a href="http://antcount.sourceforge.net/">http://antcount.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  182. </tr>
  183. <tr>
  184. <th>Contact:</th>
  185. <td><a href="http://antcount.sourceforge.net/contacts.html">Patrick Martin</a></td>
  186. </tr>
  187. <tr>
  188. <th>License:</th>
  189. <td>LGPL</td>
  190. </tr>
  191. </table>
  192. </subsection>
  193. <subsection name="AntDoc">
  194. <p>AntDoc is a tool that generates HTML documentation from Ant
  195. buildfiles; the generated HTML is inspired from what javadoc
  196. yields. AntDocGUI offers a simple Ant target launcher named
  197. AntDoc GUI. Ant targets may be launched from the generated
  198. AntDoc HTML pages. Integration to various IDEs is in
  199. progress.</p>
  200. <p>AntDoc can be run via an Ant task, AntDoc GUI can be run
  201. via an Ant task, or via a JVM launch.</p>
  202. <table class="externals">
  203. <tr>
  204. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  205. <td>Ant 1.4.1 and higher</td>
  206. </tr>
  207. <tr>
  208. <th>URL:</th>
  209. <td><a href="http://antdoc.free.fr/">http://antdoc.free.fr/</a></td>
  210. </tr>
  211. <tr>
  212. <th>Contact:</th>
  213. <td>Edouard Mercier</td>
  214. </tr>
  215. <tr>
  216. <th>License:</th>
  217. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  218. </tr>
  219. </table>
  220. </subsection>
  221. <subsection name="AntDoclet">
  222. <p>AntDoclet is a tool to automatically generate documentation out of
  223. your Ant Tasks' source code.</p>
  224. <p>It is implemented as a Javadoc doclet, and generates reference
  225. documentation and other deliverables from the source code of your
  226. custom Ant Tasks/Types.</p>
  227. <table class="externals">
  228. <tr>
  229. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  230. <td>Ant 1.6+ (not tested on earlier versions)</td>
  231. </tr>
  232. <tr>
  233. <th>URL:</th>
  234. <td><a href="http://antdoclet.neuroning.com/">http://antdoclet.neuroning.com/</a></td>
  235. </tr>
  236. <tr>
  237. <th>Contact:</th>
  238. <td><a href="http://neuroning.com/">Fernando Dobladez</a></td>
  239. </tr>
  240. <tr>
  241. <th>License:</th>
  242. <td>GPL</td>
  243. </tr>
  244. </table>
  245. </subsection>
  246. <subsection name="Anteater">
  247. <p>Anteater is a set of Ant tasks for the functional testing of websites
  248. and web services (functional testing being; hit a URL and ensure the
  249. response meets certain criteria). Can test HTTP params, response
  250. codes, XPath, regexp and Relax NG expressions. Includes HTML reporting
  251. (based on junitreport) and a hierarchical grouping system for quickly
  252. configuring large test scripts.
  253. </p>
  254. <table class="externals">
  255. <tr>
  256. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  257. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  258. </tr>
  259. <tr>
  260. <th>URL:</th>
  261. <td><a href="http://aft.sourceforge.net/">http://aft.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  262. </tr>
  263. <tr>
  264. <th>Contact:</th>
  265. <td><a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aft-devel">developer
  266. mailing list</a></td>
  267. </tr>
  268. <tr>
  269. <th>License:</th>
  270. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  271. </tr>
  272. </table>
  273. </subsection>
  274. <subsection name="AntForm">
  275. <p>Provides a java/swing form-based input scheme for
  276. configuring ant properties and launching ant targets.</p>
  277. <table class="externals">
  278. <tr>
  279. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  280. <td>Ant 1.6.2.</td>
  281. </tr>
  282. <tr>
  283. <th>URL:</th>
  284. <td><a href="http://antforms.sourceforge.net/">http://antforms.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  285. </tr>
  286. <tr>
  287. <th>Contact:</th>
  288. <td><a href="mailto:rene_ghosh@yahoo.com">Ren&#233; Ghosh</a></td>
  289. </tr>
  290. <tr>
  291. <th>License:</th>
  292. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  293. </tr>
  294. </table>
  295. </subsection>
  296. <subsection name="Antmerge">
  297. <p>Provides simple inheritance between ant files</p>
  298. <table class="externals">
  299. <tr>
  300. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  301. <td>Tested with 1.5. Should work with all versions.</td>
  302. </tr>
  303. <tr>
  304. <th>URL:</th>
  305. <td><a href="http://www.russet.org.uk/antmerge.html">http://www.russet.org.uk/antmerge.html</a></td>
  306. </tr>
  307. <tr>
  308. <th>Contact:</th>
  309. <td><a href="mailto:antmerge@russet.org.uk">Phillip Lord</a></td>
  310. </tr>
  311. <tr>
  312. <th>License:</th>
  313. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td>
  314. </tr>
  315. </table>
  316. </subsection>
  317. <subsection name="Antomology">
  318. <p>Antomology is an analysis tool suite for Ant. It includes:<ul>
  319. <li><b>StatisticsListener</b> - an Ant BuildListener which can be used to gather
  320. statistics while an Ant build is executed. Statistics on the targets
  321. and tasks executed are written to the console after the build completes. </li>
  322. </ul></p>
  323. <table class="externals">
  324. <tr>
  325. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  326. <td> <i>unknown</i> </td>
  327. </tr>
  328. <tr>
  329. <th>URL:</th>
  330. <td><a href="http://antomology.codehaus.org">http://antomology.codehaus.org</a></td>
  331. </tr>
  332. <tr>
  333. <th>Contact:</th>
  334. <td><a href="http://xircles.codehaus.org/projects/antomology/lists">contact page</a></td>
  335. </tr>
  336. <tr>
  337. <th>License:</th>
  338. <td>Apache License V2.0</td>
  339. </tr>
  340. </table>
  341. </subsection>
  342. <subsection name="AntPrettyBuild">
  343. <p>
  344. Ant Pretty Build is a tool to easily show and run Ant buildfiles directly from
  345. within a browser window. It consists of a single XSL file that will generate,
  346. on the fly, in the browser, from the .xml buildfile, a pretty interface showing
  347. project name, description, properties and targets, etc. sorted or unsorted,
  348. allowing to load/modify/add properties, run the whole project, or run selected
  349. set of targets in a specific order, with the ability to modify logger/logfile,
  350. mode and add more libs or command line arguments.
  351. </p>
  352. <table class="externals">
  353. <tr>
  354. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  355. <td>All Ant versions</td>
  356. </tr>
  357. <tr>
  358. <th>URL:</th>
  359. <td><a href="http://antprettybuild.sourceforge.net/">Ant Pretty Build Homepage</a></td>
  360. </tr>
  361. <tr>
  362. <th>Contact:</th>
  363. <td><a href="http://antprettybuild.sourceforge.net">Charbel BITAR</a></td>
  364. </tr>
  365. <tr>
  366. <th>License:</th>
  367. <td>Apache License V2.0</td>
  368. </tr>
  369. </table>
  370. </subsection>
  371. <subsection name="AntSpaces">
  372. <p>AntSpaces provides Ant integration with JavaSpaces. This
  373. allows you to coordinate Ant tasks via JavaSpaces, pull out
  374. work units from a JavaSpace for distributed Ant tasks to work
  375. on, and so forth.</p>
  376. <table class="externals">
  377. <tr>
  378. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  379. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  380. </tr>
  381. <tr>
  382. <th>URL:</th>
  383. <td>
  384. <a href="http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/antspaces/">http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/antspaces/</a>
  385. </td>
  386. </tr>
  387. <tr>
  388. <th>Contact:</th>
  389. <td>antspaces at oopsconsultancy.com</td>
  390. </tr>
  391. <tr>
  392. <th>License:</th>
  393. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  394. </tr>
  395. </table>
  396. </subsection>
  397. <subsection name="AntTimerTask">
  398. <p><a href="http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/AntTimerTask/index.html">Timer</a>
  399. is task for measuring the time elapsed to complete other
  400. tasks</p>
  401. <table class="externals">
  402. <tr>
  403. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  404. <td>Ant 1.6</td>
  405. </tr>
  406. <tr>
  407. <th>URL:</th>
  408. <td>
  409. <a href="http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/AntTimerTask/index.html">http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/AntTimerTask/index.html</a>
  410. </td>
  411. </tr>
  412. <tr>
  413. <th>Contact:</th>
  414. <td><a href="mailto:mario@jeckle.de">mario@jeckle.de</a></td>
  415. </tr>
  416. <tr>
  417. <th>License:</th>
  418. <td>Lesser GNU Public License</td>
  419. </tr>
  420. </table>
  421. </subsection>
  422. <subsection name="Ant Web Start Task">
  423. <p>Ant Web Start Task is an Ant task allowing developers to
  424. package a desktop application as a WAR (Web Application
  425. Archive) to be distributed over the net via Java Web Start</p>
  426. <table class="externals">
  427. <tr>
  428. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  429. <td>Ant 1.5 and above</td>
  430. </tr>
  431. <tr>
  432. <th>URL:</th>
  433. <td><a href="http://ant-jnlp-war.sourceforge.net/">http://ant-jnlp-war.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  434. </tr>
  435. <tr>
  436. <th>License:</th>
  437. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  438. </tr>
  439. </table>
  440. </subsection>
  441. <subsection name="AntXtras">
  442. <p>A collection of powerful Ant extensions components
  443. organized into five categories: fixture-control,
  444. execution-rules, flow-control, feedback, and helpers.</p>
  445. <table class="externals">
  446. <tr>
  447. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  448. <td>Ant 1.6.5</td>
  449. </tr>
  450. <tr>
  451. <th>URL:</th>
  452. <td><a href="http://antxtras.sourceforge.net/">AntXtras Home</a></td>
  453. </tr>
  454. <tr>
  455. <th>Contact:</th>
  456. <td><a href="http://antxtras.sourceforge.net">SSMC</a></td>
  457. </tr>
  458. <tr>
  459. <th>License:</th>
  460. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL 2.1)</td>
  461. </tr>
  462. </table>
  463. </subsection>
  464. <subsection name="Build Number">
  465. <p> Build Number is a tool to track software artifacts such as files and automatically assign
  466. proper version/build numbers to them. It ensures that two different artifacts will have different
  467. version/build numbers, but identical artifacts/builds will be assigned the same number. It doesn't
  468. take version management away from you and doesn't replace your build process, but rather plugs
  469. into the process and introduces version/build number governance by defining who is in charge of
  470. which part of version number. With Build Number you are still in charge of the head of the version
  471. number. E.g. you may decide to have 4 numbers in your version (major, minor, interface, implementation)
  472. and you want to manage the two first numbers (major and minor). Build Number will take care of the
  473. tedium of managing the last two numbers (interface and implementation). </p>
  474. <table class="externals">
  475. <tr>
  476. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  477. <td>Tested with Ant 1.5.4 and 1.6.5</td>
  478. </tr>
  479. <tr>
  480. <th>URL:</th>
  481. <td><a href="http://www.hammurapi.biz/products/buildnumber">http://www.hammurapi.biz/products/buildnumber</a></td>
  482. </tr>
  483. <tr>
  484. <th>Contact:</th>
  485. <td><a href="http://www.hammurapi.biz/hammurapi-biz/ef/xmenu/contact.html">Project Contact Page</a></td>
  486. </tr>
  487. <tr>
  488. <th>License:</th>
  489. <td>Commercial</td>
  490. </tr>
  491. </table>
  492. </subsection>
  493. <subsection name="Checkstyle">
  494. <p>Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write
  495. Java code that adheres to a coding standard. Its purpose is to
  496. automate the process of checking Java code, and to spare
  497. humans of this boring (but important) task.</p>
  498. <p>Checkstyle can be run via an Ant task or a command line
  499. utility.</p>
  500. <table class="externals">
  501. <tr>
  502. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  503. <td>Ant 1.4.1 and later</td>
  504. </tr>
  505. <tr>
  506. <th>URL:</th>
  507. <td><a href="http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/">http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  508. </tr>
  509. <tr>
  510. <th>Contact:</th>
  511. <td><a href="mailto:checkstyle@puppycrawl.com">Oliver Burn</a></td>
  512. </tr>
  513. <tr>
  514. <th>License:</th>
  515. <td>Starting with release 2.0 the license is the GNU
  516. Lesser General Public License. Prior releases were under
  517. the GNU General Public License.</td>
  518. </tr>
  519. </table>
  520. </subsection>
  521. <subsection name="ChownTask">
  522. <p>ChownTask is an Ant task to change ownership of files on
  523. Unix.</p>
  524. <table class="externals">
  525. <tr>
  526. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  527. <td>Ant 1.3 and up</td>
  528. </tr>
  529. <tr>
  530. <th>URL:</th>
  531. <td>
  532. <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/chowntask/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/chowntask/</a>
  533. </td>
  534. </tr>
  535. <tr>
  536. <th>Contact:</th>
  537. <td><a href="mailto:chowntask-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Wilfred Springer</a>
  538. </td>
  539. </tr>
  540. <tr>
  541. <th>License:</th>
  542. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  543. </tr>
  544. </table>
  545. </subsection>
  546. <subsection name="CleanImports">
  547. <p>Removes unneeded imports. Formats your import
  548. sections. Flags ambiguous imports.</p>
  549. <table class="externals">
  550. <tr>
  551. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  552. <td>Ant 1.3 and up</td>
  553. </tr>
  554. <tr>
  555. <th>URL:</th>
  556. <td><a href="http://www.cleanimports.tombrus.nl">http://www.cleanimports.tombrus.nl</a></td>
  557. </tr>
  558. <tr>
  559. <th>Contact:</th>
  560. <td><a href="mailto:cleanimports@tombrus.nl">Tom Brus</a></td>
  561. </tr>
  562. <tr>
  563. <th>License:</th>
  564. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  565. </tr>
  566. </table>
  567. </subsection>
  568. <subsection name="Clover">
  569. <p>Clover is an Ant-based Code Coverage tool. It can be used
  570. seamlessly with Ant-based projects. It provides method,
  571. statement, and branch coverage analysis, and has rich
  572. reporting in XML, HTML or via a Swing GUI.</p>
  573. <table class="externals">
  574. <tr>
  575. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  576. <td>Ant 1.4.1 or greater</td>
  577. </tr>
  578. <tr>
  579. <th>URL:</th>
  580. <td><a href="http://www.cenqua.com/clover/">http://www.cenqua.com/clover/</a></td>
  581. </tr>
  582. <tr>
  583. <th>Contact:</th>
  584. <td><a href="mailto:clover-support@cenqua.com">clover-support@cenqua.com</a></td>
  585. </tr>
  586. <tr>
  587. <th>License:</th>
  588. <td>Commercial, free licenses available for open source
  589. projects.</td>
  590. </tr>
  591. </table>
  592. </subsection>
  593. <subsection name="CMSDeploy">
  594. <p><a href="http://cmsdeploy.sourceforge.net">CMSDeploy</a> is
  595. an Apache Ant Task to submit files and templates to Vignette
  596. CMS.</p>
  597. <table class="externals">
  598. <tr>
  599. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  600. <td>Ant 1.5.1 and later</td>
  601. </tr>
  602. <tr>
  603. <th>URL:</th>
  604. <td><a href="http://cmsdeploy.sourceforge.net">http://cmsdeploy.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  605. </tr>
  606. <tr>
  607. <th>Contact:</th>
  608. <td><a href="mailto:masogato@users.sourceforge.net">masogato@users.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  609. </tr>
  610. <tr>
  611. <th>License:</th>
  612. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td>
  613. </tr>
  614. </table>
  615. </subsection>
  616. <subsection name="Cocoon Task">
  617. <p>This task allows the generation of static web pages and
  618. sites using Apache Cocoon in off-line mode.</p>
  619. <p>It allows the configuration information for Cocoon to be
  620. included within the Ant build file, and is thus
  621. able to take advantage of Ant properties.</p>
  622. <p>The task shares its code with the Cocoon Command Line, which
  623. means that this task will instantly take
  624. advantage of any new functionality added there.</p>
  625. <table class="externals">
  626. <tr>
  627. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  628. <td>Ant 1.5.3 and above</td>
  629. </tr>
  630. <tr>
  631. <th>URL:</th>
  632. <td><a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/">http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/</a></td>
  633. </tr>
  634. <tr>
  635. <th>Documentation:</th>
  636. <td><a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/offiline/ant.html">http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/offline/ant.html</a></td>
  637. </tr>
  638. <tr>
  639. <th>Contact:</th>
  640. <td><a href="mailto:users.at.cocoon.apache.org">users at cocoon.apache.org</a></td>
  641. </tr>
  642. <tr>
  643. <th>License:</th>
  644. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  645. </tr>
  646. </table>
  647. </subsection>
  648. <subsection name="Configure">
  649. <p>Recursive build support (call ant on every package level,
  650. and only build files in that package or in that package and
  651. everything below) with seperation of source and output.</p>
  652. <p>The task generates build files in any subdirectory (except
  653. for CVS-directories) for you. Only place one build.xml file in
  654. the top and call target &apos;setup&apos; or
  655. &apos;rescan&apos;.</p>
  656. <table class="externals">
  657. <tr>
  658. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  659. <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
  660. </tr>
  661. <tr>
  662. <th>URL:</th>
  663. <td><a href="http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/">http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/</a></td>
  664. </tr>
  665. <tr>
  666. <th>Contact:</th>
  667. <td><a href="mailto:lemval@dsdelft.nl">M.J.P. van Leeuwen</a></td>
  668. </tr>
  669. <tr>
  670. <th>License:</th>
  671. <td>License derived from Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  672. </tr>
  673. </table>
  674. </subsection>
  675. <subsection name="CVSGrab">
  676. <p>A little CVS client that can be useful when people are
  677. behind corporate firewall that blocks any cvs
  678. communications. It uses the ViewCVS web interface to access
  679. the CVS repository via standard http, and downloads all the
  680. files present in it.</p>
  681. <p>It works from the command line or as an Ant task.</p>
  682. <table class="externals">
  683. <tr>
  684. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  685. <td>Ant 1.3 or higher</td>
  686. </tr>
  687. <tr>
  688. <th>URL:</th>
  689. <td><a href="http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net/">http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  690. </tr>
  691. <tr>
  692. <th>Contact:</th>
  693. <td><a href="mailto:cvsgrab-users@lists.sourceforge.net">CVSGrab
  694. user mailing list</a></td>
  695. </tr>
  696. <tr>
  697. <th>License:</th>
  698. <td>LGPL</td>
  699. </tr>
  700. </table>
  701. </subsection>
  702. <subsection name="Dependencies">
  703. <p>The dependencies task manages a set of external dependencies which
  704. may be downloaded from a remote repository,
  705. such as ibiblio.org. Uses a local cache to avoid repeated
  706. downloads.</p>
  707. <table class="externals">
  708. <tr>
  709. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  710. <td>Tested with 1.5.1, should work with 1.4+.</td>
  711. </tr>
  712. <tr>
  713. <th>URL:</th>
  714. <td><a href="http://www.httpunit.org/doc/dependencies.html">http://www.httpunit.org/doc/dependencies.html</a></td>
  715. </tr>
  716. <tr>
  717. <th>Contact:</th>
  718. <td><a href="mailto:russgold@httpunit.org">Russell Gold</a></td>
  719. </tr>
  720. <tr>
  721. <th>License:</th>
  722. <td>MIT License</td>
  723. </tr>
  724. </table>
  725. </subsection>
  726. <subsection name="Dependency Finder">
  727. <p>Dependency Finder extracts dependencies and OO metrics from
  728. Java class files produced by most Java compilers. It can compute
  729. API differences between versions; no sources needed. It includes
  730. Ant tasks, web, Swing, and command-line interfaces, with XSL
  731. stylesheets for formatting output.</p>
  732. <p>You can use it to extract dependencies between packages, classes,
  733. or even methods, or any combination thereof. You can use Perl
  734. regular expressions to filter the information and pinpoint only
  735. what you need. There is even a Web Application version (WAR file)
  736. so a whole group of developers can share a common view.</p>
  737. <table class="externals">
  738. <tr>
  739. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  740. <td>Tested with 1.5.3, should work with 1.4+.</td>
  741. </tr>
  742. <tr>
  743. <th>URL:</th>
  744. <td><a href="http://depfind.sourceforge.net/">http://depfind.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  745. </tr>
  746. <tr>
  747. <th>Contact:</th>
  748. <td><a href="mailto:jeantessier@users.sourceforge.net">Jean Tessier</a></td>
  749. </tr>
  750. <tr>
  751. <th>License:</th>
  752. <td>BSD-like License</td>
  753. </tr>
  754. </table>
  755. </subsection>
  756. <subsection name="Doxygen task">
  757. <table class="externals">
  758. <tr>
  759. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  760. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  761. </tr>
  762. <tr>
  763. <th>URL:</th>
  764. <td><a href="http://ant-doxygen.blogspot.com">http://ant-doxygen.blogspot.com</a></td>
  765. </tr>
  766. <tr>
  767. <th>Contact:</th>
  768. <td><a href="mailto:akkumar@users.sourceforge.net">Karthik A Kumar</a></td>
  769. </tr>
  770. <tr>
  771. <th>License:</th>
  772. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  773. </tr>
  774. </table>
  775. </subsection>
  776. <subsection name="DTDDoc">
  777. <p>DTDDoc is here to help you to document your DTD's efficiently. It is a
  778. straightforward extension of the javadoc concept to the DTD file format.</p>
  779. <table class="externals">
  780. <tr>
  781. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  782. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  783. </tr>
  784. <tr>
  785. <th>URL:</th>
  786. <td><a href="http://dtddoc.sourceforge.net/">http://dtddoc.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  787. </tr>
  788. <tr>
  789. <th>Contact:</th>
  790. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=53704">Project Mailing List</a></td>
  791. </tr>
  792. <tr>
  793. <th>License:</th>
  794. <td>X11 (Open Source)</td>
  795. </tr>
  796. </table>
  797. </subsection>
  798. <subsection name="EnvGen">
  799. <p>
  800. <a href="http://www.basilv.com/psd/software">EnvGen</a> is an Ant task for generating
  801. different versions of the same file parameterized for different environments (i.e.
  802. development, test, and production). File generation is done using
  803. <a href="http://freemarker.org/">FreeMarker</a>, a template engine with a full-featured
  804. templating language.
  805. </p>
  806. <table class="externals">
  807. <tr>
  808. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  809. <td>Ant 1.6.5 or higher (not tested on earlier versions)</td>
  810. </tr>
  811. <tr>
  812. <th>URL:</th>
  813. <td><a href="http://www.basilv.com/psd/software">http://www.basilv.com/software</a></td>
  814. </tr>
  815. <tr>
  816. <th>Contact:</th>
  817. <td><a href="http://www.basilv.com/psd/software/feedback">EnvGen Feedback Page</a></td>
  818. </tr>
  819. <tr>
  820. <th>License:</th>
  821. <td>GPL</td>
  822. </tr>
  823. </table>
  824. </subsection>
  825. <subsection name="EMMA">
  826. <p>EMMA is an open-source toolkit for measuring and reporting
  827. Java code coverage. EMMA distinguishes itself from other tools
  828. by going after a unique feature combination: support large-scale
  829. enterprise software development while keeping individual developers
  830. work fast and iterative at the same time.</p>
  831. <table class="externals">
  832. <tr>
  833. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  834. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  835. </tr>
  836. <tr>
  837. <th>URL:</th>
  838. <td><a href="http://emma.sourceforge.net/">http://emma.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  839. </tr>
  840. <tr>
  841. <th>Contact:</th>
  842. <td><a href="mailto:emma-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Mailinglist</a></td>
  843. </tr>
  844. <tr>
  845. <th>License:</th>
  846. <td>Common Public License 1.0</td>
  847. </tr>
  848. </table>
  849. </subsection>
  850. <subsection name="FMPP">
  851. <p>FMPP is a general-purpose text file preprocessor tool that
  852. uses FreeMarker templates. It is particularly designed for
  853. HTML preprocessor, for the generation of complete (static)
  854. homepages: directory structure that contains HTML-s, image
  855. files, etc. But of course it can be used to generate source
  856. code or whatever text files. FMPP is extendable with Java
  857. classes to pull data from any data sources (XML file,
  858. database, etc.) and embed the data into the generated
  859. files.</p>
  860. <table class="externals">
  861. <tr>
  862. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  863. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  864. </tr>
  865. <tr>
  866. <th>URL:</th>
  867. <td><a href="http://fmpp.sourceforge.net/">http://fmpp.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  868. </tr>
  869. <tr>
  870. <th>License:</th>
  871. <td>BSD License</td>
  872. </tr>
  873. </table>
  874. </subsection>
  875. <subsection name="GenJar">
  876. <p>Builds a JAR file based on class dependencies rather than simply the contents of a directory</p>
  877. <table class="externals">
  878. <tr>
  879. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  880. <td>Ant 1.4 alpha (built after 2001/08/04) and later</td>
  881. </tr>
  882. <tr>
  883. <th>URL:</th>
  884. <td><a href="http://genjar.sourceforge.net/">http://genjar.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  885. </tr>
  886. <tr>
  887. <th>Contact:</th>
  888. <td><a href="mailto:jesse_dev@yahoo.com">Jesse Stockall</a></td>
  889. </tr>
  890. <tr>
  891. <th>License:</th>
  892. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  893. </tr>
  894. </table>
  895. </subsection>
  896. <subsection name="Grand">
  897. <p>Grand is a set of tools to create a visual representation of Ant target
  898. dependencies. It works by taking an Ant build file and creating a "dot" file. It
  899. differs from the existing tools by relying on the Ant API rather than XML parsing to
  900. get the dependencies. It includes many advanced features such as filtering or
  901. rendering depending on the target's nature. Also features a SWT based GUI.</p>
  902. <table class="externals">
  903. <tr>
  904. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  905. <td>Ant 1.6 and later</td>
  906. </tr>
  907. <tr>
  908. <th>URL:</th>
  909. <td><a href="http://www.ggtools.net/grand/">http://www.ggtools.net/grand/</a></td>
  910. </tr>
  911. <tr>
  912. <th>Contact:</th>
  913. <td>Christophe Labouisse</td>
  914. </tr>
  915. <tr>
  916. <th>License:</th>
  917. <td>BSD License</td>
  918. </tr>
  919. </table>
  920. </subsection>
  921. <subsection name="Greebo">
  922. <p>Greebo is an Ant-task for downloading dependency files
  923. (currently only jars) from a network to a specified directory,
  924. much like Maven. It supports multiple local and remote
  925. repositories with either flat or maven-like structures. It can
  926. read the dependency list from a Maven project file, a
  927. maven-like dependency file, or directly from the build.xml
  928. file.</p>
  929. <table class="externals">
  930. <tr>
  931. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  932. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  933. </tr>
  934. <tr>
  935. <th>URL:</th>
  936. <td><a href="http://greebo.sourceforge.net/">http://greebo.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  937. </tr>
  938. <tr>
  939. <th>Contact:</th>
  940. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=73733">project mailing lists</a></td>
  941. </tr>
  942. <tr>
  943. <th>License:</th>
  944. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  945. </tr>
  946. </table>
  947. </subsection>
  948. <subsection name="GroboUtils CodeCoverage">
  949. <p>The CodeCoverage sub-project of GroboUtils provides a 100%
  950. pure Java code coverage tool. It uses pre-execution class file
  951. recompilation, and generates XML files containing the coverage
  952. statistics. It does not require any advanced VM setup to generate
  953. coverage numbers.
  954. </p>
  955. <table class="externals">
  956. <tr>
  957. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  958. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  959. </tr>
  960. <tr>
  961. <th>URL:</th>
  962. <td><a href="http://groboutils.sourceforge.net/codecoverage/">http://groboutils.sourceforge.net/codecoverage/</a></td>
  963. </tr>
  964. <tr>
  965. <th>Contact:</th>
  966. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=22594">project mailing lists</a></td>
  967. </tr>
  968. <tr>
  969. <th>License:</th>
  970. <td>MIT License</td>
  971. </tr>
  972. </table>
  973. </subsection>
  974. <subsection name="Hammurapi">
  975. <p>Java code review tool. Performs automated code
  976. review. Contains 111 inspectors which check different aspects
  977. of code quality including coding standards, EJB, threading,
  978. ...</p>
  979. <table class="externals">
  980. <tr>
  981. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  982. <td>Tested with Ant 1.5.x and 1.6.5</td>
  983. </tr>
  984. <tr>
  985. <th>URL:</th>
  986. <td><a href="http://www.hammurapi.biz/products/hammurapi">http://www.hammurapi.biz/products/hammurapi</a></td>
  987. </tr>
  988. <tr>
  989. <th>Contact:</th>
  990. <td><a href="http://www.hammurapi.biz/hammurapi-biz/ef/xmenu/contact.html">Project Contact Page</a></td>
  991. </tr>
  992. <tr>
  993. <th>License:</th>
  994. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL)</td>
  995. </tr>
  996. </table>
  997. </subsection>
  998. <subsection name="HelpStudioAnt">
  999. <p>This task allows for HelpStudio projects to be created via Ant.</p>
  1000. <table class="externals">
  1001. <tr>
  1002. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1003. <td>Ant 1.6.0 and later</td>
  1004. </tr>
  1005. <tr>
  1006. <th>URL:</th>
  1007. <td><a href="http://helpstudioant.sourceforge.net">http://helpstudioant.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  1008. </tr>
  1009. <tr>
  1010. <th>License:</th>
  1011. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1012. </tr>
  1013. </table>
  1014. </subsection>
  1015. <subsection name="IDLDepend">
  1016. <p>idldepend is a task that (re)generates Java sources to be
  1017. created from CORBA/IDL files.</p>
  1018. <p>It parses the IDL file and determines the Java files that
  1019. must be generated, taking in account the modifications that
  1020. can happen due to command line parameters. If any of the Java
  1021. files are missing or older than the source IDL specification,
  1022. it launches the specified compiler. The compilers of Orbacus,
  1023. Jacorb, OpenORB, Orbix2k and Sun'JDK distributions are
  1024. supported.</p>
  1025. <p>To speed up the process and avoid unnecesary re-parsing, it
  1026. keeps the dependencies in intermediate files. This task does
  1027. not launch the javac compiler as well, that is, its output are
  1028. Java files and not the final bytecode.</p>
  1029. <table class="externals">
  1030. <tr>
  1031. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1032. <td>Ant 1.4 or later</td>
  1033. </tr>
  1034. <tr>
  1035. <th>URL:</th>
  1036. <td><a href="http://www.byteslooser.com/idldepend/">http://www.byteslooser.com/idldepend</a></td>
  1037. </tr>
  1038. <tr>
  1039. <th>Contact:</th>
  1040. <td><a href="mailto:byteslooser@gmail.com">byteslooser@gmail.com</a></td>
  1041. </tr>
  1042. <tr>
  1043. <th>License:</th>
  1044. <td>free source, no license restrictions</td>
  1045. </tr>
  1046. </table>
  1047. </subsection>
  1048. <subsection name="Image">
  1049. <p>Image task generates and transforms images. It exposes the
  1050. imaging capability available in Java2D, Java Advanced Imaging,
  1051. ImageIO, etc., as set of nested elements.</p>
  1052. <p>Image transformations such as &quot;resize&quot;
  1053. (scale),&quot;overlay&quot; (one image on another),
  1054. &quot;border&quot; (add a border), &quot;text&quot; (text on
  1055. image), &quot;crop&quot; (a sub-image of a bigger image),
  1056. &quot;rotate&quot;, &quot;grayscale&quot; (change a color
  1057. image to shades of gray).<br/>
  1058. Now it supports transparency (making images translucent), a
  1059. bestfit option for Resize, simple support for images within
  1060. a security-constraint, a preliminary support (if pjatools.jar
  1061. is available) for saving files as GIF and some other fixes.</p>
  1062. <p>IMPORTANT: You will need the PMIW (Poor Man's Imaging Wrapper) jar
  1063. for all the operations and the pjatools jar for GIF encoding/ saving
  1064. support.</p>
  1065. <table class="externals">
  1066. <tr>
  1067. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1068. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  1069. </tr>
  1070. <tr>
  1071. <th>URL:</th>
  1072. <td><a
  1073. href="http://www.mullassery.com/software/ANT/">http://www.mullassery.com/software/ANT/</a></td>
  1074. </tr>
  1075. <tr>
  1076. <th>pmiw jar</th>
  1077. <td><a
  1078. href="http://www.mullassery.com/software/PMIW/">http://www.mullassery.com/software/PMIW/</a>
  1079. (Poor Man's Imaging Wrapper)</td>
  1080. </tr>
  1081. <tr>
  1082. <th>pjatools jar</th>
  1083. <td><a
  1084. href="http://www.eteks.com/pja/en/">http://www.eteks.com/pja/en/</a>
  1085. (pjatools for GIF encoding support)</td>
  1086. </tr>
  1087. <tr>
  1088. <th>Contact:</th>
  1089. <td><a href="http://www.mullassery.com">Abey Mullassery</a></td>
  1090. </tr>
  1091. <tr>
  1092. <th>License:</th>
  1093. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  1094. </tr>
  1095. </table>
  1096. </subsection>
  1097. <subsection name="Importscrubber">
  1098. <p>Removes unnecessary import statements from a Java source code file.</p>
  1099. <table class="externals">
  1100. <tr>
  1101. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1102. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  1103. </tr>
  1104. <tr>
  1105. <th>URL:</th>
  1106. <td><a href="http://importscrubber.sourceforge.net/">http://importscrubber.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1107. </tr>
  1108. <tr>
  1109. <th>Contact:</th>
  1110. <td><a href="mailto:tomcopeland@users.sourceforge.net">Tom Copeland</a></td>
  1111. </tr>
  1112. <tr>
  1113. <th>License:</th>
  1114. <td>LGPL</td>
  1115. </tr>
  1116. </table>
  1117. </subsection>
  1118. <subsection name="ImTask">
  1119. <p>ImTask is a task to allow one to send an Instant
  1120. Message. Currently supports yahoo!, AIM, and Jabber</p>
  1121. <table class="externals">
  1122. <tr>
  1123. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1124. <td>Ant 1.5 or higher</td>
  1125. </tr>
  1126. <tr>
  1127. <th>URL:</th>
  1128. <td><a href="http://imtask.sourceforge.net/">http://imtask.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  1129. </tr>
  1130. <tr>
  1131. <th>Contact:</th>
  1132. <td><a href="mailto:djallstar@users.sourceforge.net">Jon Madison</a></td>
  1133. </tr>
  1134. <tr>
  1135. <th>License:</th>
  1136. <td>GNU LGPL</td>
  1137. </tr>
  1138. </table>
  1139. </subsection>
  1140. <subsection name="Incanto">
  1141. <p>Ant tasks to provide support for Oracle database tools
  1142. (such as SQL*Plus, Import, Export)</p>
  1143. <table class="externals">
  1144. <tr>
  1145. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1146. <td>Ant 1.6</td>
  1147. </tr>
  1148. <tr>
  1149. <th>URL:</th>
  1150. <td><a href="http://incanto.sourceforge.net/">http://incanto.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1151. </tr>
  1152. <tr>
  1153. <th>Contact:</th>
  1154. <td><a href="mailto:alexrk@users.sourceforge.net">Alexander Karnstedt</a></td>
  1155. </tr>
  1156. <tr>
  1157. <th>License:</th>
  1158. <td>Apache License, Version 2.0</td>
  1159. </tr>
  1160. </table>
  1161. </subsection>
  1162. <subsection name="IsDirValidator">
  1163. <p>Checks whether a given directory structure conforms to
  1164. certain rules that are defined via nested elements of the
  1165. task.</p>
  1166. <table class="externals">
  1167. <tr>
  1168. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1169. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  1170. </tr>
  1171. <tr>
  1172. <th>URL:</th>
  1173. <td><a href="http://isvalidator.sourceforge.net/en/isDirValidator.htm">http://isvalidator.sourceforge.net/en/isDirValidator.htm</a></td>
  1174. </tr>
  1175. <tr>
  1176. <th>Contact:</th>
  1177. <td><a href="mailto:news@inigoserrano.com">I&#xF1;igo Serrano</a></td>
  1178. </tr>
  1179. <tr>
  1180. <th>License:</th>
  1181. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1182. </tr>
  1183. </table>
  1184. </subsection>
  1185. <subsection name="Ivy">
  1186. <p>Ivy is a simple yet powerful dependency manager featuring
  1187. continuous integration, dependencies of dependencies
  1188. management, multiple repositories including ibiblio and high
  1189. performance (use of a local cache).</p>
  1190. <table class="externals">
  1191. <tr>
  1192. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1193. <td>1.5.1 (1.6.5 or 1.7.1 recommended)</td>
  1194. </tr>
  1195. <tr>
  1196. <th>URL:</th>
  1197. <td><a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/">http://ant.apache.org/ivy/</a></td>
  1198. </tr>
  1199. <tr>
  1200. <th>Contact:</th>
  1201. <td>ivy-user (at) ant (dot) apache (dot) org [User Mailinglist]</td>
  1202. </tr>
  1203. <tr>
  1204. <th>License:</th>
  1205. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  1206. </tr>
  1207. </table>
  1208. </subsection>
  1209. <subsection name="J2ME Ant Tasks">
  1210. <p>There are different sets of tasks to help build <a
  1211. href="http://java.sun.com/j2me/">Java 2 Platform, Micro
  1212. Edition</a> (J2ME) applications.</p>
  1213. <subsubsection name="Antenna">
  1214. <p>Antenna provides a set of Ant tasks suitable for developing
  1215. wireless Java applications targeted at the Mobile Information
  1216. Device Profile (MIDP). With Antenna, you can compile,
  1217. preverify, package, obfuscate, and run your MIDP applications
  1218. (aka MIDlets), manipulate Java Application Descriptor (JAD)
  1219. files, as well as convert JAR files to PRC files designed to
  1220. run on MIDP for Palm OS. Deployment is supported via a
  1221. deployment task and a corresponding HTTP servlet for
  1222. Over-the-Air (OTA) provisioning. A small preprocessor allows
  1223. to generate different variants of a MIDlet from a single
  1224. source.</p>
  1225. <table class="externals">
  1226. <tr>
  1227. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1228. <td>Ant 1.4.1 or later</td>
  1229. </tr>
  1230. <tr>
  1231. <th>URL:</th>
  1232. <td><a href="http://antenna.sourceforge.net/">http://antenna.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1233. </tr>
  1234. <tr>
  1235. <th>Contact:</th>
  1236. <td><a href="mailto:joerg@pleumann.de">J&#xF6;rg Pleumann</a></td>
  1237. </tr>
  1238. <tr>
  1239. <th>License:</th>
  1240. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td>
  1241. </tr>
  1242. </table>
  1243. </subsubsection>
  1244. <subsubsection name="Antic">
  1245. <p>Antic is a freely available task for packaging J2ME
  1246. applications. It produces both the Jar and Jad files in a
  1247. single step. This allows *all* entries to be correclty set in
  1248. the jad file, including the size of the jar file that is
  1249. produced. This task has been used and tested extensively with
  1250. Sun's Wireless Toolkit and also the Nokia SDK and
  1251. emulators.</p>
  1252. <table class="externals">
  1253. <tr>
  1254. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1255. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  1256. </tr>
  1257. <tr>
  1258. <th>URL:</th>
  1259. <td><a href="http://www.smartkey.co.uk/tools/antic/antic.html">http://www.smartkey.co.uk/tools/antic/antic.html</a>
  1260. </td>
  1261. </tr>
  1262. <tr>
  1263. <th>Contact:</th>
  1264. <td><a href="mailto:support@smartkey.co.uk">smartkey.co.uk</a></td>
  1265. </tr>
  1266. <tr>
  1267. <th>License:</th>
  1268. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1269. </tr>
  1270. </table>
  1271. </subsubsection>
  1272. <subsubsection name="Dave's J2ME Tasks">
  1273. <p>This set supports CLDC and the K Virtual Machine (KVM):</p>
  1274. <table class="externals">
  1275. <tr>
  1276. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1277. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  1278. </tr>
  1279. <tr>
  1280. <th>URL:</th>
  1281. <td><a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/">http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/</a></td>
  1282. </tr>
  1283. <tr>
  1284. <th>Contact:</th>
  1285. <td><a href="mailto:drib@enteract.com">Dave Dribin</a></td>
  1286. </tr>
  1287. <tr>
  1288. <th>License:</th>
  1289. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  1290. </tr>
  1291. </table>
  1292. </subsubsection>
  1293. <subsubsection name="J2ME Polish">
  1294. <p>J2ME Polish is an Ant-based tool for the creation of
  1295. MIDP applications. It covers the whole circle of preprocessing, compiling,
  1296. obfuscation, preverifying, packaging and JAD-creation. J2ME Polish is
  1297. ideal for creating device optimized applications with its powerful
  1298. preprocessing capabilities and the integrated device database.
  1299. With J2ME Polish no hardcoded values are needed and the portability of an
  1300. application is not sacrificed, even though highly optimized applications are
  1301. created from a single source.
  1302. <br/>
  1303. It contains a logging framework and an optional MIDP-compatible GUI
  1304. which can be designed using the web-standard CSS. With the J2ME Polish GUI
  1305. you can even use MIDP/2.0 features on MIDP/1.0 phones.
  1306. </p>
  1307. <table class="externals">
  1308. <tr>
  1309. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1310. <td>Ant 1.4.1 or later</td>
  1311. </tr>
  1312. <tr>
  1313. <th>URL:</th>
  1314. <td><a
  1315. href="http://www.j2mepolish.org/">http://www.j2mepolish.org/</a></td>
  1316. </tr>
  1317. <tr>
  1318. <th>Contact:</th>
  1319. <td><a href="mailto:j2mepolish@enough.de">Enough Software</a></td>
  1320. </tr>
  1321. <tr>
  1322. <th>License:</th>
  1323. <td>GNU General Public License; commercial licenses available</td>
  1324. </tr>
  1325. </table>
  1326. </subsubsection>
  1327. <subsubsection name="Stampysoft's J2ME Tasks">
  1328. <p>And this set works with the J2ME Wireless Toolkit and MIDP
  1329. for PalmOS:</p>
  1330. <table class="externals">
  1331. <tr>
  1332. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1333. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  1334. </tr>
  1335. <tr>
  1336. <th>URL:</th>
  1337. <td><a href="http://www.stampysoft.com/ant/">http://www.stampysoft.com/ant/</a></td>
  1338. </tr>
  1339. <tr>
  1340. <th>Contact:</th>
  1341. <td><a href="mailto:jeckels@stampysoft.com">Josh Eckels</a></td>
  1342. </tr>
  1343. <tr>
  1344. <th>License:</th>
  1345. <td>MIT License</td>
  1346. </tr>
  1347. </table>
  1348. </subsubsection>
  1349. </subsection>
  1350. <subsection name="Jacson">
  1351. <p>Jacson is a configurable and plugable tool (much like Ant
  1352. itself) to create filters for text (line based) files without
  1353. programming.</p>
  1354. <table class="externals">
  1355. <tr>
  1356. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1357. <td>Jacson has been used and tested with 1.5.1, should
  1358. work with 1.4+</td>
  1359. </tr>
  1360. <tr>
  1361. <th>URL:</th>
  1362. <td><a href="http://jacson.sourceforge.net/">http://jacson.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1363. </tr>
  1364. <tr>
  1365. <th>Contact:</th>
  1366. <td><a href="mailto:jacson-user@lists.sourceforge.de">jacson-user@lists.sourceforge.de</a></td>
  1367. </tr>
  1368. <tr>
  1369. <th>License:</th>
  1370. <td>GNU Library or Lesser General Public License</td>
  1371. </tr>
  1372. </table>
  1373. </subsection>
  1374. <subsection name="Jalopy">
  1375. <p>An Ant Plug-in for the Java Source Code Formatter
  1376. Jalopy.</p>
  1377. <table class="externals">
  1378. <tr>
  1379. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1380. <td>Ant 1.4 (or higher)</td>
  1381. </tr>
  1382. <tr>
  1383. <th>URL:</th>
  1384. <td><a href="http://jalopy.sourceforge.net/">http://jalopy.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1385. </tr>
  1386. <tr>
  1387. <th>Contact:</th>
  1388. <td><a href="http://jalopy.sf.net/contact.html">http://jalopy.sf.net/contact.html</a></td>
  1389. </tr>
  1390. <tr>
  1391. <th>License:</th>
  1392. <td>Starting with release 1.0 Beta 6 the license is the
  1393. BSD License. Prior releases were under the GNU General
  1394. Public License.</td>
  1395. </tr>
  1396. </table>
  1397. </subsection>
  1398. <subsection name="JarBundler">
  1399. <p>JarBundler is a task that generates Mac OS X native Java
  1400. Application Bundles. It is fully configurable and can be used
  1401. to generate Mac OS X application bundles from any supported
  1402. Java platform, making it ideal for targeting multiple
  1403. platforms with one build.</p>
  1404. <table class="externals">
  1405. <tr>
  1406. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1407. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  1408. </tr>
  1409. <tr>
  1410. <th>URL:</th>
  1411. <td><a href="http://www.loomcom.com/jarbundler/">http://www.loomcom.com/jarbundler/</a></td>
  1412. </tr>
  1413. <tr>
  1414. <th>Contact:</th>
  1415. <td><a href="mailto:sethm@loomcom.com">Seth Morabito</a></td>
  1416. </tr>
  1417. <tr>
  1418. <th>License:</th>
  1419. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1420. </tr>
  1421. </table>
  1422. </subsection>
  1423. <subsection name="JarPatch">
  1424. <p>JarPatch is a task that generates a zip file resulting of
  1425. the diff between the content of 2 jar files.</p>
  1426. <p>The resulting diff file can be use as a patch for a
  1427. previous installation (just ensure that the generated
  1428. patch.zip file is located on the CLASSPATH before the patched
  1429. oldJar jar file)</p>
  1430. <table class="externals">
  1431. <tr>
  1432. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1433. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  1434. </tr>
  1435. <tr>
  1436. <th>URL:</th>
  1437. <td><a
  1438. href="http://perso.club-internet.fr/sjobic/ant/">http://perso.club-internet.fr/sjobic/ant/</a></td>
  1439. </tr>
  1440. <tr>
  1441. <th>Contact:</th>
  1442. <td><a href="mailto:norbert.barbosa@laposte.net">Norbert Barbosa</a></td>
  1443. </tr>
  1444. <tr>
  1445. <th>License:</th>
  1446. <td>LGPL License</td>
  1447. </tr>
  1448. </table>
  1449. </subsection>
  1450. <subsection name="Java+ Precompile Task">
  1451. <p>Java+ is an open source Java preprocessor that adds these
  1452. features to any Java compiler:</p>
  1453. <ul>
  1454. <li>Multi-line strings with executable inclusions like Perl
  1455. and Ruby. It eliminates the need for JSP or ASP and their
  1456. need for Java compilers on deployment servers (a security
  1457. concern) while adding no overhead in either space or
  1458. time. </li>
  1459. <li>Optionally supports localization by segregating Java+
  1460. strings into ResourceBundle files with invarient keys based
  1461. on the hash code of the strings's value. This is handled
  1462. automatically and transparently; no intervention is
  1463. required.</li>
  1464. <li>Fast. Negligible impact on build times. By default,
  1465. skips inputs whose outputs are up to date to avoid
  1466. triggering recompilations.</li>
  1467. <li>Pure Java code, portable to any platform, with
  1468. graphical, shell and ant interfaces.</li>
  1469. <li>Simple, general, recursive, digraph-driven string
  1470. syntax. Digraph characters are user-selectable.</li>
  1471. </ul>
  1472. <table class="externals">
  1473. <tr>
  1474. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1475. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  1476. </tr>
  1477. <tr>
  1478. <th>URL:</th>
  1479. <td><a href="http://virtualschool.edu/java+/">http://virtualschool.edu/java+/</a></td>
  1480. </tr>
  1481. <tr>
  1482. <th>Contact:</th>
  1483. <td><a href="mailto:bcox@virtualschool.edu">Brad Cox</a></td>
  1484. </tr>
  1485. <tr>
  1486. <th>License:</th>
  1487. <td>BSD-like License</td>
  1488. </tr>
  1489. </table>
  1490. </subsection>
  1491. <subsection name="Java2Html">
  1492. <p>There are two different tools both named Java2HTML that
  1493. process Java source code and generate syntax highlighted
  1494. documentation from it. Both include Ant tasks to run
  1495. them.</p>
  1496. <p>Java2Html library for converting java source files
  1497. or snipplets to syntax highlighted html, rtf, tex and
  1498. others.</p>
  1499. <table class="externals">
  1500. <tr>
  1501. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1502. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  1503. </tr>
  1504. <tr>
  1505. <th>URL:</th>
  1506. <td><a href="http://www.java2html.de/">http://www.java2html.de/</a></td>
  1507. </tr>
  1508. <tr>
  1509. <th>Contact:</th>
  1510. <td><a href="mailto:java2html@jave.de">java2html@jave.de</a></td>
  1511. </tr>
  1512. <tr>
  1513. <th>License:</th>
  1514. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1515. </tr>
  1516. </table>
  1517. <p>Java2HTML is a simple-to-use tool which converts a bunch of
  1518. Java Source Code into a colourized and browsable HTML
  1519. representation.</p>
  1520. <table class="externals">
  1521. <tr>
  1522. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1523. <td>1.5.1 onwards</td>
  1524. </tr>
  1525. <tr>
  1526. <th>URL:</th>
  1527. <td><a href="http://www.java2html.com/java2html_ant_task.html">http://www.java2html.com/java2html_ant_task.html</a></td>
  1528. </tr>
  1529. <tr>
  1530. <th>Contact:</th>
  1531. <td><a href="mailto:support@java2html.com">support@java2html.com</a></td>
  1532. </tr>
  1533. <tr>
  1534. <th>License:</th>
  1535. <td>FreeWare</td>
  1536. </tr>
  1537. </table>
  1538. </subsection>
  1539. <subsection name="Javamake">
  1540. <p>A task to compile Java sources and manage class file
  1541. dependencies. Functionality is equivalent to that of standard
  1542. Javac and Depend tasks combined, with improved dependency
  1543. checking.</p>
  1544. <table class="externals">
  1545. <tr>
  1546. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1547. <td>Ant 1.4.1</td>
  1548. </tr>
  1549. <tr>
  1550. <th>URL:</th>
  1551. <td><a href="http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html">http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html</a></td>
  1552. </tr>
  1553. <tr>
  1554. <th>Contact:</th>
  1555. <td><a href="mailto:Mikhail.Dmitriev@eng.sun.com">Mikhail Dmitriev</a></td>
  1556. </tr>
  1557. <tr>
  1558. <th>License:</th>
  1559. <td>BSD-like License</td>
  1560. </tr>
  1561. </table>
  1562. </subsection>
  1563. <subsection name="javarec">
  1564. <p>Ant tasks that generate record classes for VisualAge for
  1565. Java from Cobol copy books.</p>
  1566. <table class="externals">
  1567. <tr>
  1568. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1569. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  1570. </tr>
  1571. <tr>
  1572. <th>URL:</th>
  1573. <td><a href="http://glezen.org/javarec/">http://glezen.org/javarec/</a></td>
  1574. </tr>
  1575. <tr>
  1576. <th>Contact:</th>
  1577. <td><a href="mailto:pglezen@us.ibm.com">Paul Glezen</a></td>
  1578. </tr>
  1579. <tr>
  1580. <th>License:</th>
  1581. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  1582. </tr>
  1583. </table>
  1584. </subsection>
  1585. <subsection name="JCSC">
  1586. <p>JCSC is a Java Coding Standard Checker which also features
  1587. the generation of some code metrics. It is a command line tool
  1588. with an Ant task to scan whole package trees. The result can
  1589. viewed in an JavaDoc style web page.</p>
  1590. <table class="externals">
  1591. <tr>
  1592. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1593. <td>Ant &gt;= 1.5</td>
  1594. </tr>
  1595. <tr>
  1596. <th>URL:</th>
  1597. <td><a href="http://jcsc.sourceforge.net/">http://jcsc.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1598. </tr>
  1599. <tr>
  1600. <th>Contact:</th>
  1601. <td><a href="mailto:rjocham72@netscape.net">Ralph Jocham</a></td>
  1602. </tr>
  1603. <tr>
  1604. <th>License:</th>
  1605. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1606. </tr>
  1607. </table>
  1608. </subsection>
  1609. <subsection name="JDeb">
  1610. <p>JDeb provides an Ant task and a Maven plugin to create
  1611. Debian packages from Java builds in a truly cross platform
  1612. manner. Build your Debian packages on any platform that has
  1613. Java support. Windows, Linux - it does not require
  1614. additional native tools installed.</p>
  1615. <table class="externals">
  1616. <tr>
  1617. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1618. <td>Ant 1.7 (not tested on earlier versions)</td>
  1619. </tr>
  1620. <tr>
  1621. <th>URL:</th>
  1622. <td><a href="http://vafer.org/projects/jdeb/">http://vafer.org/projects/jdeb/</a></td>
  1623. </tr>
  1624. <tr>
  1625. <th>Contact:</th>
  1626. <td><a href="mailto:tcurdt@apache.org">Torsten Curdt</a></td>
  1627. </tr>
  1628. <tr>
  1629. <th>License:</th>
  1630. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  1631. </tr>
  1632. </table>
  1633. </subsection>
  1634. <subsection name="Jdiff">
  1635. <p>A task that generates an HTML report of all the packages, classes,
  1636. constructors, methods, and fields which have been removed, added or
  1637. changed in any way, including their documentation, when two APIs are
  1638. compared. </p>
  1639. <table class="externals">
  1640. <tr>
  1641. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1642. <td>Ant 1.6</td>
  1643. </tr>
  1644. <tr>
  1645. <th>URL:</th>
  1646. <td>
  1647. <a href="http://javadiff.sourceforge.net/" >
  1648. http://javadiff.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1649. </tr>
  1650. <tr>
  1651. <th>Task Documentation:</th>
  1652. <td>
  1653. <a
  1654. href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/javadiff/jdiff/jdiff.html?rev=HEAD&amp;content-type=text/html#JDiffAntTask"
  1655. >
  1656. (in CVS)</a></td>
  1657. </tr>
  1658. <tr>
  1659. <th>License:</th>
  1660. <td>LGPL</td>
  1661. </tr>
  1662. </table>
  1663. </subsection>
  1664. <subsection name="JFlex">
  1665. <p>JFlex is a lexical analyzer generator (also known as
  1666. scanner generator) for Java, written in Java.</p>
  1667. <table class="externals">
  1668. <tr>
  1669. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1670. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  1671. </tr>
  1672. <tr>
  1673. <th>URL:</th>
  1674. <td><a href="http://jflex.de/">http://jflex.de/</a></td>
  1675. </tr>
  1676. <tr>
  1677. <th>Contact:</th>
  1678. <td><a href="http://www.jflex.de/mailing.html">jflex-users mailing list</a></td>
  1679. </tr>
  1680. <tr>
  1681. <th>License:</th>
  1682. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL)</td>
  1683. </tr>
  1684. </table>
  1685. </subsection>
  1686. <subsection name="JindentTask">
  1687. <p>JindentTask is a very straightforward wrapping of the
  1688. Jindent tool, a vendor code beautifier. It enables to use
  1689. Jindent natively from Ant.</p>
  1690. <table class="externals">
  1691. <tr>
  1692. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1693. <td>Ant 1.4.1 and higher</td>
  1694. </tr>
  1695. <tr>
  1696. <th>URL:</th>
  1697. <td><a href="http://the.edouard.mercier.free.fr/Jindent_content.php">http://the.edouard.mercier.free.fr/Jindent_content.php</a></td>
  1698. </tr>
  1699. <tr>
  1700. <th>Contact:</th>
  1701. <td>Edouard Mercier</td>
  1702. </tr>
  1703. </table>
  1704. </subsection>
  1705. <subsection name="Jing Task">
  1706. <p> Validates XML files against the RELAX NG alternative to XML Schema.
  1707. The Jing task for Ant allows you to efficiently validate
  1708. multiple files against multiple RELAX NG patterns and integrate
  1709. RELAX NG validation with other XML processing.</p>
  1710. <table class="externals">
  1711. <tr>
  1712. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1713. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  1714. </tr>
  1715. <tr>
  1716. <th>URL:</th>
  1717. <td><a href="http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing-ant.html">
  1718. http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing-ant.html</a></td>
  1719. </tr>
  1720. <tr>
  1721. <th>License:</th>
  1722. <td>BSD-like</td>
  1723. </tr>
  1724. </table>
  1725. </subsection>
  1726. <subsection name="jMetra">
  1727. <p>jMetra is a tool for collecting code metrics across a
  1728. project lifecycle and compiling the results into
  1729. JavaDoc-styled documentation to analyze project metrics over
  1730. time. jMetra is best utilized by integrating it with your
  1731. project's scheduled build process.</p>
  1732. <p>It works from the command line or using several provided
  1733. Ant tasks.</p>
  1734. <table class="externals">
  1735. <tr>
  1736. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1737. <td>Ant 1.4 and higher</td>
  1738. </tr>
  1739. <tr>
  1740. <th>URL:</th>
  1741. <td>
  1742. <a href="http://www.jmetra.com/">http://www.jmetra.com/</a
  1743. >
  1744. </td>
  1745. </tr>
  1746. <tr>
  1747. <th>Contact:</th>
  1748. <td>
  1749. <a href="mailto:tnewton@hypercisioninc.com">R Todd Newton
  1750. </a>
  1751. </td>
  1752. </tr>
  1753. <tr>
  1754. <th>License:</th>
  1755. <td>Commercial, free licenses for open source projects and
  1756. evaluations.</td>
  1757. </tr>
  1758. </table>
  1759. </subsection>
  1760. <subsection name="JMX4Ant">
  1761. <p>JMX4Ant provides tasks for integration with JMX (Java Management
  1762. Extensions). It provides tasks for getting and setting attributes
  1763. of MBeans, invoking their methods and much more.</p>
  1764. <table class="externals">
  1765. <tr>
  1766. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1767. <td>Ant 1.4 and higher</td>
  1768. </tr>
  1769. <tr>
  1770. <th>URL:</th>
  1771. <td>
  1772. <a href="http://jmx4ant.sourceforge.net/">http://jmx4ant.sourceforge.net/</a>
  1773. </td>
  1774. </tr>
  1775. <tr>
  1776. <th>Contact:</th>
  1777. <td>
  1778. <a href="mailto:bdueck@yahoo.com">Brian Dueck</a>
  1779. </td>
  1780. </tr>
  1781. <tr>
  1782. <th>License:</th>
  1783. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  1784. </tr>
  1785. </table>
  1786. </subsection>
  1787. <subsection name="JNI">
  1788. <p>
  1789. JNI is a free toolkit that makes easy work of
  1790. integrating Java and C through the Java Native
  1791. Interface (JNI). It includes a code generator that
  1792. generates both Java "proxy" classes to access C
  1793. "peer" classes, and C "proxy" classes to access
  1794. Java "peer" classes or interfaces. It also
  1795. includes a core library with a simplified JVM
  1796. interface as well as "helper" classes to ease
  1797. working with the JNI data types. The code
  1798. generation is driven by an XML project file that
  1799. can be created with the assistance of the GUI
  1800. Project Manager. The code generation can be
  1801. invoked either from Ant or from the
  1802. GUI. Includes a comprehensive printable PDF User
  1803. Guide and plenty of examples.</p>
  1804. <table class="externals">
  1805. <tr>
  1806. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1807. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  1808. </tr>
  1809. <tr>
  1810. <th>URL:</th>
  1811. <td><a href="http://jnipp.sf.net/">http://jnipp.sf.net/</a></td>
  1812. </tr>
  1813. <tr>
  1814. <th>Contact:</th>
  1815. <td><a href="mailto:ptrewhella@users.sf.net">Phillip E. Trewhella</a></td>
  1816. </tr>
  1817. <tr>
  1818. <th>License:</th>
  1819. <td>GNU LGPL</td>
  1820. </tr>
  1821. </table>
  1822. </subsection>
  1823. <subsection name="JPP">
  1824. <p>
  1825. <a href="http://www.javapreprocessor.com">JPP</a> is a preprocessor for Ant supporting
  1826. many different file types that allows you to include / exclude contents based on
  1827. build-time parameters. It is completely invisible to other tools and takes the hassle
  1828. out of maintaining customised code or content. It is free, is provided as an Ant task,
  1829. and very simple to use.
  1830. </p>
  1831. <table class="externals">
  1832. <tr>
  1833. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1834. <td>Ant 1.6.5</td>
  1835. </tr>
  1836. <tr>
  1837. <th>URL:</th>
  1838. <td><a href="http://www.javapreprocessor.com">http://www.javapreprocessor.com</a></td>
  1839. </tr>
  1840. <tr>
  1841. <th>Contact:</th>
  1842. <td><a href="mailto://info@javapreprocessor.com">info@javapreprocessor.com</a></td>
  1843. </tr>
  1844. <tr>
  1845. <th>License:</th>
  1846. <td>Freeware</td>
  1847. </tr>
  1848. </table>
  1849. </subsection>
  1850. <subsection name="JReleaseInfo">
  1851. <p>Sometimes you are interested at runtime to have information
  1852. from build time. This may be the build date, a build number or
  1853. the version. The JReleaseInfo Ant Task generates a java
  1854. source file with getter methods for any desired and provided
  1855. properties. Furthermore, it can automatically generate a
  1856. viewer (which can e.g. be used as main-class in a library jar
  1857. file) that shows the included release information.</p>
  1858. <table class="externals">
  1859. <tr>
  1860. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1861. <td>Ant 1.6 and later</td>
  1862. </tr>
  1863. <tr>
  1864. <th>URL:</th>
  1865. <td><a href="http://jreleaseinfo.sourceforge.net/">HomePage on SourceForge</a></td>
  1866. </tr>
  1867. <tr>
  1868. <th>Contact:</th>
  1869. <td><a
  1870. href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jreleaseinfo/">Forums/Tracker on SourceForge</a></td>
  1871. </tr>
  1872. <tr>
  1873. <th>License:</th>
  1874. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  1875. </tr>
  1876. </table>
  1877. </subsection>
  1878. <subsection name="JRun Ant Tasks">
  1879. <p>JRun 4 SP1 ships with lib/jrun-ant-tasks.jar, which defines
  1880. three Ant tasks: jrun, jrunapp, and jrunjmx. Documentation
  1881. for the tasks can be found in JRun under
  1882. docs/ant/jrun.html.</p>
  1883. <p>Note that the service pack must be installed on top of an
  1884. existing JRun 4 installation.</p>
  1885. <table class="externals">
  1886. <tr>
  1887. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1888. <td>Ant 1.4 or higher</td>
  1889. </tr>
  1890. <tr>
  1891. <th>URL:</th>
  1892. <td><a href="http://dynamic.macromedia.com/bin/MM/software/trial/hwswrec.jsp?product=jrun_sp">http://dynamic.macromedia.com/bin/MM/software/trial/hwswrec.jsp?product=jrun_sp</a></td>
  1893. </tr>
  1894. <tr>
  1895. <th>Contact:</th>
  1896. <td><a href="mailto:bdeitte@macromedia.com">Brian Deitte</a></td>
  1897. </tr>
  1898. <tr>
  1899. <th>License:</th>
  1900. <td>Commercial</td>
  1901. </tr>
  1902. </table>
  1903. </subsection>
  1904. <subsection name="JsDoc Toolkit Ant Task">
  1905. <p>JsDoc Toolkit is an application, written in JavaScript, for
  1906. automatically generating template-formatted, multi-page HTML
  1907. (or XML, JSON, or any other text-based) documentation from
  1908. commented JavaScript source code.</p>
  1909. <p>This project is a simple wrapper around the JsDoc Toolkit
  1910. documentation program. It gives the user all the command
  1911. line options, with the flexibility of using in within an Ant
  1912. build file.</p>
  1913. <table class="externals">
  1914. <tr>
  1915. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1916. <td>Ant 1.7.0 or higher</td>
  1917. </tr>
  1918. <tr>
  1919. <th>URL:</th>
  1920. <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-toolkit-ant-task/">http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-toolkit-ant-task/</a></td>
  1921. </tr>
  1922. <tr>
  1923. <th>Contact:</th>
  1924. <td><a href="mailto:ironsidevsquincy@googlemail.com">Darren Hurley</a></td>
  1925. </tr>
  1926. <tr>
  1927. <th>License:</th>
  1928. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  1929. </tr>
  1930. </table>
  1931. </subsection>
  1932. <subsection name="JSMin Ant Task">
  1933. <p>The JSMin Ant task can be used for the automated minification of javascript files
  1934. in your build and deploy processes.</p>
  1935. <p>JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from javascript
  1936. files. It typically reduces filesize by half, resulting in faster downloads.</p>
  1937. <table class="externals">
  1938. <tr>
  1939. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1940. <td>Ant 1.6.5 or higher</td>
  1941. </tr>
  1942. <tr>
  1943. <th>URL:</th>
  1944. <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/jsmin-ant-task/">http://code.google.com/p/jsmin-ant-task/</a></td>
  1945. </tr>
  1946. <tr>
  1947. <th>Contact:</th>
  1948. <td><a href="mailto:matt_at_matthaynes_dot_net">M. Haynes</a></td>
  1949. </tr>
  1950. <tr>
  1951. <th>License:</th>
  1952. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  1953. </tr>
  1954. </table>
  1955. </subsection>
  1956. <subsection name="JudoScript Ant Task">
  1957. <p>The &lt;judoscript&gt; task is an easy way to embed JudoScript
  1958. code in the Ant build script. The tag format is quite simple. You can
  1959. either embed code directly, or can specify an external JudoScript program
  1960. file as the <code>src</code> attribute value. Parameters can be specified
  1961. as the <code>params</code> attribute; this is applicable to both embedded
  1962. code and external files.
  1963. </p>
  1964. <table class="externals">
  1965. <tr>
  1966. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1967. <td>Ant 1.5 or higher</td>
  1968. </tr>
  1969. <tr>
  1970. <th>URL:</th>
  1971. <td><a
  1972. href="http://www.judoscript.com/articles/ant.html">http://www.judoscript.com/articles/ant.html</a></td>
  1973. </tr>
  1974. <tr>
  1975. <th>Contact:</th>
  1976. <td><a href="mailto:judoscript@hotmail.com">James Jianbo Huang</a></td>
  1977. </tr>
  1978. <tr>
  1979. <th>License:</th>
  1980. <td>Lesser GNU Public License</td>
  1981. </tr>
  1982. </table>
  1983. </subsection>
  1984. <subsection name="Just4log Ant Task">
  1985. <p>Just4log is a ant task to optimize JVM bytecode with regards
  1986. for Logs ( be it, Log4j, Apache Commons or JDK 1.4 )
  1987. It depends on apache BCEL for Bytecode engineering.</p>
  1988. <table class="externals">
  1989. <tr>
  1990. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1991. <td>Ant 1.5.2 or higher</td>
  1992. </tr>
  1993. <tr>
  1994. <th>URL:</th>
  1995. <td><a href="http://just4log.sourceforge.net">http://just4log.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  1996. </tr>
  1997. <tr>
  1998. <th>Contact:</th>
  1999. <td><a href="mailto:lbruand@wanadoo.fr">Lucas Bruand</a></td>
  2000. </tr>
  2001. <tr>
  2002. <th>License:</th>
  2003. <td>Apache License 1.1.</td>
  2004. </tr>
  2005. </table>
  2006. </subsection>
  2007. <subsection name="Kanaputs">
  2008. <p>Kanaputs is a parser for java based scripting. It is an
  2009. interpreter for Java. With Kanaputs you can use Java as an
  2010. interpreted language: no more compilation, each instruction is
  2011. executed when you write it. It is a small programmation
  2012. language to make script files above Java.</p>
  2013. <p>Kanaputs Ant Task provides a way to add any kind of
  2014. programmatic features in your Ant script. The code you insert
  2015. stays OS independent (because Kanaputs uses Java) and is
  2016. completely integrated with Ant as you can give Ant properties
  2017. to the Kanaputs code and get back the results in other
  2018. properties.</p>
  2019. <p>Moreover, as you can invoke any kind of Java code with
  2020. Kanaputs, you can popup windows from your Ant file to ask the
  2021. user to do a choice.</p>
  2022. <table class="externals">
  2023. <tr>
  2024. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2025. <td>Ant 1.2 and above</td>
  2026. </tr>
  2027. <tr>
  2028. <th>URL:</th>
  2029. <td>
  2030. <a href="http://www.kanaputs.org/">http://www.kanaputs.org/</a> <br/>
  2031. <a href="http://www.kanaputs.org/ant.html">http://www.kanaputs.org/ant.html</a>
  2032. </td>
  2033. </tr>
  2034. <tr>
  2035. <th>Contact:</th>
  2036. <td>
  2037. <a href="mailto:kfra@kanaputs.org">kfra@kanaputs.org</a>
  2038. </td>
  2039. </tr>
  2040. <tr>
  2041. <th>License:</th>
  2042. <td>Freeware</td>
  2043. </tr>
  2044. </table>
  2045. </subsection>
  2046. <subsection name="LaTeX Task">
  2047. <p>Simple Task to use (PDF)LaTeX, BibTeX, Makeindex and GlossTeX to
  2048. create your documentation.</p>
  2049. <table class="externals">
  2050. <tr>
  2051. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2052. <td>Ant 1.6.2 and above</td>
  2053. </tr>
  2054. <tr>
  2055. <th>URL:</th>
  2056. <td>
  2057. <a href="http://www.dokutransdata.de/">http://www.dokutransdata.de/</a><br/>
  2058. <a href="http://www.dokutransdata.de/ant_latex/">http://www.dokutransdata.de/ant_latex/</a>
  2059. </td>
  2060. </tr>
  2061. <tr>
  2062. <th>Contact:</th>
  2063. <td>
  2064. <a href="mailto:jaloma@dokutransdata.de">jaloma@dokutransdata.de</a>
  2065. </td>
  2066. </tr>
  2067. <tr>
  2068. <th>License:</th>
  2069. <td>Freeware</td>
  2070. </tr>
  2071. </table>
  2072. </subsection>
  2073. <subsection name="Macker">
  2074. <p>A build-time architectural testing tool, designed
  2075. to maintain clean layering / tiering / modularity.
  2076. Macker works against compiled class files, checking
  2077. dependencies between classes against a set of
  2078. pattern-based access rules you specify for your
  2079. project in an XML rules file. Macker doesn't presume
  2080. anything about your architecture -- you write the
  2081. rules, and Macker keeps you honest about them.</p>
  2082. <table class="externals">
  2083. <tr>
  2084. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2085. <td>Ant 1.5 and higher (1.4 untested but may work)</td>
  2086. </tr>
  2087. <tr>
  2088. <th>URL:</th>
  2089. <td><a href="http://innig.net/macker/">http://innig.net/macker/</a></td>
  2090. </tr>
  2091. <tr>
  2092. <th>Contact:</th>
  2093. <td><a href="http://innig.net/macker/contact.html">Paul Cantrell</a></td>
  2094. </tr>
  2095. <tr>
  2096. <th>License:</th>
  2097. <td>GNU GPL 2.0</td>
  2098. </tr>
  2099. </table>
  2100. </subsection>
  2101. <subsection name="MakeRunScript">
  2102. <p>MakeRunScript creates a run script for your application. Even if you are developing on windows,
  2103. you can make a run script for *nix and vice versa. If you've used the built-in java task before, you
  2104. already know how to use 90% of MakeRunScript.</p>
  2105. <table class="externals">
  2106. <tr>
  2107. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2108. <td>Ant 1.7 and higher</td>
  2109. </tr>
  2110. <tr>
  2111. <th>URL:</th>
  2112. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/makerunscript/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/makerunscript/</a></td>
  2113. </tr>
  2114. <tr>
  2115. <th>Contact:</th>
  2116. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=210204">MakeRunScript forums</a></td>
  2117. </tr>
  2118. <tr>
  2119. <th>License:</th>
  2120. <td>Apache 2.0</td>
  2121. </tr>
  2122. </table>
  2123. </subsection>
  2124. <subsection name="mtxslt">
  2125. <p>The mtxslt (Multi-XSLT) extends the standard Ant "xslt/style" task
  2126. to make it easy to use multiple XSLT engines during the same build.
  2127. This is useful for regression testing of XSLT scripts against several
  2128. engines.</p>
  2129. <table class="externals">
  2130. <tr>
  2131. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2132. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  2133. </tr>
  2134. <tr>
  2135. <th>URL:</th>
  2136. <td><a href="http://mtxslt.sourceforge.net/">http://mtxslt.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  2137. </tr>
  2138. <tr>
  2139. <th>Contact:</th>
  2140. <td><a href="mailto:abcoates@theOffice.net">Anthony B. Coates</a></td>
  2141. </tr>
  2142. <tr>
  2143. <th>License:</th>
  2144. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  2145. </tr>
  2146. </table>
  2147. </subsection>
  2148. <subsection name="nsd2LaTeX Task">
  2149. <p>Simple Task to use nsd2ltx to build your Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams.</p>
  2150. <table class="externals">
  2151. <tr>
  2152. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2153. <td>Ant 1.6.2 and above</td>
  2154. </tr>
  2155. <tr>
  2156. <th>URL:</th>
  2157. <td>
  2158. <a href="http://www.dokutransdata.de/">http://www.dokutransdata.de/</a><br/>
  2159. <a href="http://www.dokutransdata.de/ant_nsd2ltx/">http://www.dokutransdata.de/ant_nsd2ltx/</a>
  2160. </td>
  2161. </tr>
  2162. <tr>
  2163. <th>Contact:</th>
  2164. <td>
  2165. <a href="mailto:jaloma@dokutransdata.de">jaloma@dokutransdata.de</a>
  2166. </td>
  2167. </tr>
  2168. <tr>
  2169. <th>License:</th>
  2170. <td>Freeware</td>
  2171. </tr>
  2172. </table>
  2173. </subsection>
  2174. <subsection name="Nurflugel AntScript Visualizer">
  2175. <p>The Nurflugel AntScript Visualizer takes your build file,
  2176. finds any imported build files, and shows all relationships
  2177. between targets, taskdefs, macrodefs, Ant and Antcalls; output
  2178. options include PDF, SVG, and PNG. Many options including
  2179. grouping by build file, inclusion/exclusion of targets,
  2180. taskdefs, imports, etc. Installation is via Java WebStart, so
  2181. you'll always have the freshest version available.</p>
  2182. <table class="externals">
  2183. <tr>
  2184. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2185. <td>Ant 1.1 and later</td>
  2186. </tr>
  2187. <tr>
  2188. <th>URL:</th>
  2189. <td><a href="http://www.nurflugel.com/webstart/AntScriptVisualizer/">http://www.nurflugel.com/webstart/AntScriptVisualizer/</a></td>
  2190. </tr>
  2191. <tr>
  2192. <th>Contact:</th>
  2193. <td>dbullard &lt;at&gt; nurflugel &lt;dot&gt; com (email
  2194. will receive a challenge to weed out spam)</td>
  2195. </tr>
  2196. <tr>
  2197. <th>License:</th>
  2198. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  2199. </tr>
  2200. </table>
  2201. </subsection>
  2202. <subsection name="Orangevolt Ant Tasks">
  2203. <p>Orangevolt ANT Tasks is a collection of Tasks for Apache
  2204. Ant.</p>
  2205. <p>The Orangevolt Ant Tasks collections provides a bunch of
  2206. Appplication Deployment related Tasks from windows specific
  2207. tasks (registry access, executable generation), *nix specific
  2208. tasks (kde/gnome shortcut generation) to many useful utility
  2209. tasks like jnlp generation.</p>
  2210. <table class="externals">
  2211. <tr>
  2212. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2213. <td>Ant 1.5 or above</td>
  2214. </tr>
  2215. <tr>
  2216. <th>URL:</th>
  2217. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ovanttasks">http://sourceforge.net/projects/ovanttasks</a></td>
  2218. </tr>
  2219. <tr>
  2220. <th>Contact:</th>
  2221. <td><a href="mailto:info@roxes.com">info@roxes.com</a></td>
  2222. </tr>
  2223. <tr>
  2224. <th>License:</th>
  2225. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL)</td>
  2226. </tr>
  2227. </table>
  2228. </subsection>
  2229. <subsection name="pack">
  2230. <p>pack is a task to build the smallest possible JAR to link
  2231. and run one or more classes.</p>
  2232. <table class="externals">
  2233. <tr>
  2234. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2235. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  2236. </tr>
  2237. <tr>
  2238. <th>URL:</th>
  2239. <td><a href="http://sadun-util.sourceforge.net/pack.html">http://sadun-util.sourceforge.net/pack.html</a></td>
  2240. </tr>
  2241. <tr>
  2242. <th>Contact:</th>
  2243. <td><a href="mailto:cristiano@xtractor.com">Cristiano Sadun</a></td>
  2244. </tr>
  2245. <tr>
  2246. <th>License:</th>
  2247. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td>
  2248. </tr>
  2249. </table>
  2250. </subsection>
  2251. <subsection name="PCT">
  2252. <p>PCT is a task to compile Progress code, and in a more general
  2253. way, to deal with Progress procedures and databases.</p>
  2254. <table class="externals">
  2255. <tr>
  2256. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2257. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  2258. </tr>
  2259. <tr>
  2260. <th>URL:</th>
  2261. <td><a href="http://pct.sourceforge.net">http://pct.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  2262. </tr>
  2263. <tr>
  2264. <th>Contact:</th>
  2265. <td><a href="mailto:justus_phenix@users.sourceforge.net">Gilles QUERRET</a></td>
  2266. </tr>
  2267. <tr>
  2268. <th>Licence:</th>
  2269. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  2270. </tr>
  2271. </table>
  2272. </subsection>
  2273. <subsection name="PesterCat Ant Toolkit">
  2274. <p>PesterCat is a web testing tool that was designed to
  2275. perform functional testing for web applications. The PesterCat
  2276. Ant Toolkit contains tasks to playback test scripts and create
  2277. HTML reports.
  2278. </p>
  2279. <table class="externals">
  2280. <tr>
  2281. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2282. <td>Ant 1.6 and later</td>
  2283. </tr>
  2284. <tr>
  2285. <th>URL:</th>
  2286. <td><a href="http://www.pestercat.com/">http://www.pestercat.com/</a></td>
  2287. </tr>
  2288. <tr>
  2289. <th>License:</th>
  2290. <td>Commercial</td>
  2291. </tr>
  2292. </table>
  2293. </subsection>
  2294. <subsection name="PMD">
  2295. <p>PMD checks Java source code for unused variables,
  2296. unnecessary object creation, etc</p>
  2297. <table class="externals">
  2298. <tr>
  2299. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2300. <td>Ant 1.4 and higher</td>
  2301. </tr>
  2302. <tr>
  2303. <th>URL:</th>
  2304. <td><a href="http://pmd.sf.net/">http://pmd.sf.net/</a></td>
  2305. </tr>
  2306. <tr>
  2307. <th>Contact:</th>
  2308. <td><a href="mailto:tcopeland@apache.org">Tom Copeland</a></td>
  2309. </tr>
  2310. <tr>
  2311. <th>License:</th>
  2312. <td>BSD style license</td>
  2313. </tr>
  2314. </table>
  2315. </subsection>
  2316. <subsection name="PRes">
  2317. <p>PRes is short for Property Resources and will generate a Java source
  2318. file from name=value pair .property files which can be compiled like any
  2319. other class.</p>
  2320. <table class="externals">
  2321. <tr>
  2322. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2323. <td>Ant 1.5 and later (may work with earlier)</td>
  2324. </tr>
  2325. <tr>
  2326. <th>URL:</th>
  2327. <td><a href="http://mseries.sourceforge.net">http://mseries.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  2328. </tr>
  2329. <tr>
  2330. <th>Contact:</th>
  2331. <td><a href="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/mseries/contact.html">MSeries</a></td>
  2332. </tr>
  2333. <tr>
  2334. <th>License:</th>
  2335. <td>LGPL</td>
  2336. </tr>
  2337. </table>
  2338. </subsection>
  2339. <subsection name="ProGuard">
  2340. <p><a href="http://proguard.sourceforge.net/">ProGuard</a> is
  2341. a free Java class file shrinker and obfuscator. It can detect
  2342. and remove unused classes, fields, methods, and attributes. It
  2343. can then rename the remaining classes, fields, and methods
  2344. using short meaningless names.</p>
  2345. <table class="externals">
  2346. <tr>
  2347. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2348. <td>Tested with 1.5. Should work with all versions.</td>
  2349. </tr>
  2350. <tr>
  2351. <th>URL:</th>
  2352. <td>
  2353. <a href="http://proguard.sourceforge.net/">http://proguard.sourceforge.net/</a>
  2354. </td>
  2355. </tr>
  2356. <tr>
  2357. <th>Contact:</th>
  2358. <td>
  2359. <a href="http://proguard.sourceforge.net/feedback.html">Feedback Page</a>
  2360. </td>
  2361. </tr>
  2362. <tr>
  2363. <th>License:</th>
  2364. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  2365. </tr>
  2366. </table>
  2367. </subsection>
  2368. <subsection name="properties2java">
  2369. <p>Properties2Java is an Ant task for automatic conversion of
  2370. java ".properties" files to ".java" files extending the
  2371. java.util.ListResourceBundle.</p>
  2372. <table class="externals">
  2373. <tr>
  2374. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2375. <td>Ant 1.6 or above</td>
  2376. </tr>
  2377. <tr>
  2378. <th>URL:</th>
  2379. <td><a href="http://properties2java.jayefem.de/">http://properties2java.jayefem.de/</a></td>
  2380. </tr>
  2381. <tr>
  2382. <th>Contact:</th>
  2383. <td><a href="mailto:properties2java@jayefem.de">Jan-Friedrich Mutter</a></td>
  2384. </tr>
  2385. <tr>
  2386. <th>License:</th>
  2387. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  2388. </tr>
  2389. </table>
  2390. </subsection>
  2391. <subsection name="Purge">
  2392. <p>Purge deletes all but the most recent few files from a fileset.
  2393. For example: if you have generated files (logs, .ear, .war, .jar
  2394. etc) accumulating in a directory, the purge task will allow you
  2395. to delete the older files, keeping just the most recent ones.</p>
  2396. <table class="externals">
  2397. <tr>
  2398. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2399. <td>Ant 1.4 or above</td>
  2400. </tr>
  2401. <tr>
  2402. <th>URL:</th>
  2403. <td><a href="http://www.dallaway.com/ant/">http://www.dallaway.com/ant/</a></td>
  2404. </tr>
  2405. <tr>
  2406. <th>Contact:</th>
  2407. <td><a href="mailto:purge@dallaway.com">Richard Dallaway</a></td>
  2408. </tr>
  2409. <tr>
  2410. <th>License:</th>
  2411. <td>LGPL</td>
  2412. </tr>
  2413. </table>
  2414. </subsection>
  2415. <subsection name="RefactorIT">
  2416. <p>RefactorIT includes an Ant task for metrics and audits.
  2417. RefactorIT is a Java refactoring, audit and metrics tool.
  2418. It plugs into major Java IDEs, also runs stand-alone with
  2419. a GUI and a command line interface.</p>
  2420. <table class="externals">
  2421. <tr>
  2422. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2423. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  2424. </tr>
  2425. <tr>
  2426. <th>URL:</th>
  2427. <td><a href="http://www.refactorit.com/">http://www.refactorit.com/</a></td>
  2428. </tr>
  2429. <tr>
  2430. <th>Contact:</th>
  2431. <td><a href="mailto:support@refactorit.com">support@refactorit.com</a></td>
  2432. </tr>
  2433. <tr>
  2434. <th>License:</th>
  2435. <td>Commercial. (Free for accredited open source products, see
  2436. <a href="http://www.refactorit.com/osc">http://www.refactorit.com/osc</a>.)</td>
  2437. </tr>
  2438. </table>
  2439. </subsection>
  2440. <subsection name="Reflectant Task">
  2441. <p>This is a task for reflection invocation from within ant build file.</p>
  2442. <table class="externals">
  2443. <tr>
  2444. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2445. <td>Ant 1.5 or above</td>
  2446. </tr>
  2447. <tr>
  2448. <th>URL:</th>
  2449. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/reflectant/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/reflectant/</a></td>
  2450. </tr>
  2451. <tr>
  2452. <th>Contact:</th>
  2453. <td><a href="mailto:sv_ant@mail.bg">sv_ant@mail.bg</a></td>
  2454. </tr>
  2455. <tr>
  2456. <th>License:</th>
  2457. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  2458. </tr>
  2459. </table>
  2460. </subsection>
  2461. <subsection name="rundoc">
  2462. <p>A task designed to help with the single-sourcing of program
  2463. documentation. Rundoc replaces special commands
  2464. (in the format <i>@@rundoc:command param1 param2...@@</i>) embedded
  2465. within text files with their output in a
  2466. specified format. Currently, only Docbook format is supported.</p>
  2467. <p>Rundoc was written to keep sample code output in program
  2468. documentation synchronized with the actual output
  2469. of the current code, by running the referenced code when the
  2470. documentation is built.</p>
  2471. <table class="externals">
  2472. <tr>
  2473. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2474. <td>Tested with 1.6 Should work with all versions.</td>
  2475. </tr>
  2476. <tr>
  2477. <th>URL:</th>
  2478. <td><a href="http://www.martiansoftware.com/lab/index.html#rundoc">http://www.martiansoftware.com/lab/index.html#rundoc</a></td>
  2479. </tr>
  2480. <tr>
  2481. <th>Contact:</th>
  2482. <td><a href="http://www.martiansoftware.com/contact.html">Marty Lamb</a></td>
  2483. </tr>
  2484. <tr>
  2485. <th>License:</th>
  2486. <td>Revised BSD</td>
  2487. </tr>
  2488. </table>
  2489. </subsection>
  2490. <subsection name="SerialVer">
  2491. <p>SerialVer adds the Java serialver functionality to Apache
  2492. Ant. This project adds Tasks and FilterReaders to get, to
  2493. insert and to modify the serialVersionUID in the source code
  2494. of a serializable class.</p>
  2495. <table class="externals">
  2496. <tr>
  2497. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2498. <td>Ant 1.5.1 and later</td>
  2499. </tr>
  2500. <tr>
  2501. <th>URL:</th>
  2502. <td><a href="http://serialver.sourceforge.net/">http://serialver.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  2503. </tr>
  2504. <tr>
  2505. <th>Contact:</th>
  2506. <td><a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/serialver-development">developer mailing list</a></td>
  2507. </tr>
  2508. <tr>
  2509. <th>License:</th>
  2510. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  2511. </tr>
  2512. </table>
  2513. </subsection>
  2514. <subsection name="Simian">
  2515. <p>Simian (Similarity Analyser) identifies duplication in Java,
  2516. C#, C, CPP, COBOL, JSP, HTML source code and even plain text files.</p>
  2517. <table class="externals">
  2518. <tr>
  2519. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2520. <td>Ant 1.5.1 and later</td>
  2521. </tr>
  2522. <tr>
  2523. <th>URL:</th>
  2524. <td><a href="http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/products/simian/">
  2525. http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/products/simian/</a></td>
  2526. </tr>
  2527. <tr>
  2528. <th>Contact:</th>
  2529. <td><a href="mailto:simian-user-subscribe@redhillconsulting.com.au">
  2530. simian-user-subscribe@redhillconsulting.com.au (User Mailinglist)
  2531. </a></td>
  2532. </tr>
  2533. <tr>
  2534. <th>License:</th>
  2535. <td>Commercial, Free Licenses available for Non-Commercial Projects</td>
  2536. </tr>
  2537. </table>
  2538. </subsection>
  2539. <subsection name="SmartAnalyzer">
  2540. <p>Powerful analysis of dependencies between Java classes.
  2541. Only affected classes will be recompiled and it can be used
  2542. with any bytecode compiler.</p>
  2543. <table class="externals">
  2544. <tr>
  2545. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2546. <td>Apache Ant version 1.5.1</td>
  2547. </tr>
  2548. <tr>
  2549. <th>URL:</th>
  2550. <td><a href="http://smartanalyzer.sourceforge.net/">http://smartanalyzer.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  2551. </tr>
  2552. <tr>
  2553. <th>Contact:</th>
  2554. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartanalyzer">support at sourceforge project page</a></td>
  2555. </tr>
  2556. <tr>
  2557. <th>License:</th>
  2558. <td>GNU General Public Licence (GPL)</td>
  2559. </tr>
  2560. </table>
  2561. </subsection>
  2562. <subsection name="snip">
  2563. <p>A task designed to help with the single-sourcing of program documentation.
  2564. Snip extracts snippets of text from files, placing them into properties in the Ant project.
  2565. These properties can then be used by any other Ant task, and are particularly useful when
  2566. referenced by &lt;filter&gt;s within the &lt;copy&gt; task.</p>
  2567. <p>Snip was originally written to keep snippets of sample code in API documentation synchronized
  2568. with the actual sample classes.</p>
  2569. <table class="externals">
  2570. <tr>
  2571. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2572. <td>Tested with 1.5.1. Should work with all versions.</td>
  2573. </tr>
  2574. <tr>
  2575. <th>URL:</th>
  2576. <td><a href="http://www.martiansoftware.com/lab/index.html#snip">http://www.martiansoftware.com/lab/index.html#snip</a></td>
  2577. </tr>
  2578. <tr>
  2579. <th>Contact:</th>
  2580. <td><a href="http://www.martiansoftware.com/contact.html">Marty Lamb</a></td>
  2581. </tr>
  2582. <tr>
  2583. <th>License:</th>
  2584. <td>Revised BSD</td>
  2585. </tr>
  2586. </table>
  2587. </subsection>
  2588. <subsection name="spell">
  2589. <p>Spell Check checks the spelling of all files in a directory. Code is broken into
  2590. single words and compared to a dictionary. If the words are not in the dictionary
  2591. they are written to a file.</p>
  2592. <table class="externals">
  2593. <tr>
  2594. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2595. <td> <!-- JHM: asked Rob for that; he'll ping me if he is back at home --> </td>
  2596. </tr>
  2597. <tr>
  2598. <th>URL:</th>
  2599. <td><a href="http://robmayhew.com/antspell/antspelltask.html">http://robmayhew.com/antspell/antspelltask.html</a></td>
  2600. </tr>
  2601. <tr>
  2602. <th>Contact:</th>
  2603. <td><a href="http://www.robmayhew.com/">Rob Mayhew</a></td>
  2604. </tr>
  2605. <tr>
  2606. <th>License:</th>
  2607. <td> <!-- same as above --> </td>
  2608. </tr>
  2609. </table>
  2610. </subsection>
  2611. <subsection name="SQL Compiler (SQLC)">
  2612. <p>SQL Compiler (SQLC) compiles database metadata and SQL statements into data access and data transfer classes.</p>
  2613. <table class="externals">
  2614. <tr>
  2615. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2616. <td>Tested with Ant 1.5.4 and 1.6.5</td>
  2617. </tr>
  2618. <tr>
  2619. <th>URL:</th>
  2620. <td><a href="http://www.hammurapi.biz/products/sqlc">http://www.hammurapi.biz/products/sqlc</a></td>
  2621. </tr>
  2622. <tr>
  2623. <th>Contact:</th>
  2624. <td><a href="http://www.hammurapi.biz/hammurapi-biz/ef/xmenu/contact.html">Project Contact Page</a></td>
  2625. </tr>
  2626. <tr>
  2627. <th>License:</th>
  2628. <td>LGPL</td>
  2629. </tr>
  2630. </table>
  2631. </subsection>
  2632. <subsection name="SQLUnit">
  2633. <p>SQLUnit is a regression and unit testing harness for testing
  2634. database stored procedures. The test suite is written as an XML file.
  2635. The SQLUnit harness itself is written in Java and uses the JUnit unit
  2636. testing framework to convert the XML test specifications to JDBC calls
  2637. and compare the results generated from the calls with the specified
  2638. results. It also provides the &lt;sqlunit&gt; task to run the tests
  2639. from a build script.</p>
  2640. <table class="externals">
  2641. <tr>
  2642. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2643. <td>Tested with Ant 1.6</td>
  2644. </tr>
  2645. <tr>
  2646. <th>URL:</th>
  2647. <td><a href="http://sqlunit.sourceforge.net">http://sqlunit.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  2648. </tr>
  2649. <tr>
  2650. <th>Contact:</th>
  2651. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=77832">Project forums</a></td>
  2652. </tr>
  2653. <tr>
  2654. <th>License:</th>
  2655. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL)</td>
  2656. </tr>
  2657. </table>
  2658. </subsection>
  2659. <subsection name="Styler">
  2660. <p>The styler task makes useful combinations of XSLT transformations
  2661. easy to specify in an Ant build file. Like the built-in Ant task
  2662. style, styler can apply a single transformation to a set of XML files.
  2663. But it can also:</p>
  2664. <ul>
  2665. <li>handle multiple transformations, in parallel or pipelined.</li>
  2666. <li>enable transformations that split or merge files</li>
  2667. <li>process non-XML files, especially HTML (based on JTidy)</li>
  2668. <li>apply non-XSLT transformation, especially "regular
  2669. fragmentations"</li>
  2670. <li>use any custom XMLReader or XMLFilter class to handle new file
  2671. formats and transformation techniques.</li>
  2672. </ul>
  2673. <table class="externals">
  2674. <tr>
  2675. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2676. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  2677. </tr>
  2678. <tr>
  2679. <th>URL:</th>
  2680. <td><a href="http://www.langdale.com.au/styler/">http://www.langdale.com.au/styler/</a></td>
  2681. </tr>
  2682. <tr>
  2683. <th>Contact:</th>
  2684. <td><a href="mailto:adv@langdale.com.au">Arnold deVos</a></td>
  2685. </tr>
  2686. <tr>
  2687. <th>License:</th>
  2688. <td>LGPL</td>
  2689. </tr>
  2690. </table>
  2691. </subsection>
  2692. <subsection name="Syntax">
  2693. <p>Transforms source files into HTML documents with syntax
  2694. highlighting. It can handle a variety of source files
  2695. including Java, HTML, C/C++, SQL, and Java properties. Colors
  2696. for elements are specified using cascading style sheets. The
  2697. output can be templated for easy integration with a site's
  2698. look and feel.</p>
  2699. <table class="externals">
  2700. <tr>
  2701. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2702. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  2703. </tr>
  2704. <tr>
  2705. <th>URL:</th>
  2706. <td><a href="http://ostermiller.org/syntax/ant.html">http://ostermiller.org/syntax/ant.html</a></td>
  2707. </tr>
  2708. <tr>
  2709. <th>Contact:</th>
  2710. <td><a href="http://ostermiller.org/contact.pl?regarding=Syntax+Highlighting">Stephen Ostermiller</a></td>
  2711. </tr>
  2712. <tr>
  2713. <th>License:</th>
  2714. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL)</td>
  2715. </tr>
  2716. </table>
  2717. </subsection>
  2718. <subsection name="TestSetGenerator">
  2719. <p>The TestSetGenerator is an ant task for generating property files with
  2720. testsets based on the results of SQL queries and validation plug-ins. Very
  2721. usefull when building unit tests that make use of changing datasets. This
  2722. task is an extension of the Ant SQL task. Hsqldb is used for both the
  2723. examples and the unittests.</p>
  2724. <table class="externals">
  2725. <tr>
  2726. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2727. <td>ANT 1.4 (or later)</td>
  2728. </tr>
  2729. <tr>
  2730. <th>URL:</th>
  2731. <td><a href="http://anttestsetgen.sourceforge.net/">http://anttestsetgen.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  2732. </tr>
  2733. <tr>
  2734. <th>Contact:</th>
  2735. <td><a href="mailto:m.c.jansen@planet.nl">m.c.jansen@planet.nl</a></td>
  2736. </tr>
  2737. <tr>
  2738. <th>License:</th>
  2739. <td>GPL</td>
  2740. </tr>
  2741. </table>
  2742. </subsection>
  2743. <subsection name="Tidy Imports (Tim)">
  2744. <p>Tim is a handy utility that can be executed on the command
  2745. line or via Ant that automatically formats your import
  2746. declarations. Tim is capable of removing unused imports,
  2747. expanding or collapsing imports and even organising them into
  2748. pre-determined groups.</p>
  2749. <table class="externals">
  2750. <tr>
  2751. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2752. <td>Ant 1.3 and later</td>
  2753. </tr>
  2754. <tr>
  2755. <th>URL:</th>
  2756. <td><a href="http://www.chive.com/tim.htm">http://www.chive.com/tim.htm</a></td>
  2757. </tr>
  2758. <tr>
  2759. <th>Contact:</th>
  2760. <td><a href="mailto:support@chive.com">support@chive.com</a></td>
  2761. </tr>
  2762. <tr>
  2763. <th>License:</th>
  2764. <td>Commercial</td>
  2765. </tr>
  2766. </table>
  2767. </subsection>
  2768. <subsection name="TiniAnt">
  2769. <p>TiniAnt is an Ant task to support building applications for
  2770. the <a href="http://www.ibutton.com/TINI/">TINI</a>.</p>
  2771. <table class="externals">
  2772. <tr>
  2773. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2774. <td>Ant 1.2 to 1.4.1</td>
  2775. </tr>
  2776. <tr>
  2777. <th>URL:</th>
  2778. <td><a href="http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/">http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  2779. </tr>
  2780. <tr>
  2781. <th>Contact:</th>
  2782. <td><a href="mailto:kelly@ad1440.net">Sean Kelly</a></td>
  2783. </tr>
  2784. <tr>
  2785. <th>License:</th>
  2786. <td>BSD-like license</td>
  2787. </tr>
  2788. </table>
  2789. </subsection>
  2790. <subsection name="Transformica">
  2791. <p>Transformica is a versatile and extensible code generator.
  2792. Supports multiple source models including database metadata, Java source files, grammar
  2793. files and custom models.
  2794. </p>
  2795. <table class="externals">
  2796. <tr>
  2797. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2798. <td>Tested with Ant 1.5.x and 1.6.5</td>
  2799. </tr>
  2800. <tr>
  2801. <th>URL:</th>
  2802. <td><a href="http://www.hammurapi.biz/products/transformica">http://www.hammurapi.biz/products/transformica</a></td>
  2803. </tr>
  2804. <tr>
  2805. <th>Contact:</th>
  2806. <td><a href="http://www.hammurapi.biz/hammurapi-biz/ef/xmenu/contact.html">Project Contact Page</a></td>
  2807. </tr>
  2808. <tr>
  2809. <th>License:</th>
  2810. <td>LGPL</td>
  2811. </tr>
  2812. </table>
  2813. </subsection>
  2814. <subsection name="Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite">
  2815. <p>Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite allows
  2816. you to sign and package your applications into relocatable Web
  2817. Archives that you can drop into your web server for
  2818. single-click launching using Java Web Start or into single
  2819. Java Archive installers that serve up their content through a
  2820. built-in, multi-threaded, ultra light-weight web server.</p>
  2821. <table class="externals">
  2822. <tr>
  2823. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2824. <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
  2825. </tr>
  2826. <tr>
  2827. <th>URL:</th>
  2828. <td><a href="http://www.geocities.com/vamp201/ant.html">http://www.geocities.com/vamp201/ant.html</a></td>
  2829. </tr>
  2830. <tr>
  2831. <th>Contact:</th>
  2832. <td><a href="mailto:vamp201@yahoo.com">Gerald Bauer</a></td>
  2833. </tr>
  2834. <tr>
  2835. <th>License:</th>
  2836. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  2837. </tr>
  2838. </table>
  2839. </subsection>
  2840. <subsection name="Version_Tool">
  2841. <p>A versioning tool for Ant.</p>
  2842. <table class="externals">
  2843. <tr>
  2844. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2845. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  2846. </tr>
  2847. <tr>
  2848. <th>URL:</th>
  2849. <td><a href="http://ant.ryangrier.com/">http://ant.ryangrier.com/</a></td>
  2850. </tr>
  2851. <tr>
  2852. <th>Contact:</th>
  2853. <td><a href="mailto:version_tool@ryangrier.com">version_tool@ryangrier.com</a></td>
  2854. </tr>
  2855. <tr>
  2856. <th>License:</th>
  2857. <td>BSD license</td>
  2858. </tr>
  2859. </table>
  2860. </subsection>
  2861. <subsection name="VPP">
  2862. <p>VPP provides general file preprocessing support based on
  2863. the Velocity Template Engine. The core functionality is
  2864. provided as a filter for use with tasks that supports filter
  2865. chains. Also included are replacement tasks for &lt;copy&gt; and
  2866. &lt;javac&gt; that integrate support for preprocessing.</p>
  2867. <table class="externals">
  2868. <tr>
  2869. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2870. <td>1.5.1 and above</td>
  2871. </tr>
  2872. <tr>
  2873. <th>URL:</th>
  2874. <td><a href="http://vpp.sourceforge.net/">http://vpp.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  2875. </tr>
  2876. <tr>
  2877. <th>Contact:</th>
  2878. <td><a href="mailto:vpp-user@lists.sourceforge.net">vpp-user@lists.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  2879. </tr>
  2880. <tr>
  2881. <th>License:</th>
  2882. <td>BSD license</td>
  2883. </tr>
  2884. </table>
  2885. </subsection>
  2886. <subsection name="WOProject">
  2887. <p>WOProject provides a set of tools to work with
  2888. <a href="http://webobjects.com/">WebObjects 5.1</a>
  2889. independent from platform and IDE. It significantly
  2890. improves developer productivity
  2891. and makes complex project structures more flexible compared to
  2892. traditional Makefile-based approach.
  2893. </p>
  2894. <table class="externals">
  2895. <tr>
  2896. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2897. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  2898. </tr>
  2899. <tr>
  2900. <th>URL:</th>
  2901. <td><a href="http://objectstyle.org/woproject/">http://objectstyle.org/woproject/</a></td>
  2902. </tr>
  2903. <tr>
  2904. <th>Contact:</th>
  2905. <td><a href="mailto:andrus@objectstyle.org">Andrus Adamchik</a></td>
  2906. </tr>
  2907. <tr>
  2908. <th>License:</th>
  2909. <td>Apache license</td>
  2910. </tr>
  2911. </table>
  2912. </subsection>
  2913. <subsection name="WSDLValidate">
  2914. <p>WSDLValidate is, as it sounds, a tool to validate WSDL files.
  2915. <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/~checkout~/wsvt-home/docs/articles/wsdl20Validator/wsdlvalidateant.html">WSDLValidate</a>
  2916. is similar in configuration to the optional Ant task <a href="http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/xmlvalidate.html">XMLValidate</a>.
  2917. WSDLValidate can optionally validate a WSDL document against the <a href="http://www.ws-i.org">WS-I Basic Profile</a>.
  2918. </p>
  2919. <p>WSDLValidate is available as an Ant task, an Eclipse plug-in and a
  2920. command line utility.</p>
  2921. <table class="externals">
  2922. <tr>
  2923. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2924. <td>Ant 1.5 or later</td>
  2925. </tr>
  2926. <tr>
  2927. <th>URL:</th>
  2928. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/wsvt">http://www.eclipse.org/wsvt</a></td>
  2929. </tr>
  2930. <tr>
  2931. <th>Contact:</th>
  2932. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/wsvt">Project newsgroup and
  2933. mailing list</a></td>
  2934. </tr>
  2935. <tr>
  2936. <th>License:</th>
  2937. <td><a href="http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/CPLv1.0.htm">Common Public
  2938. License (CPL)</a></td>
  2939. </tr>
  2940. </table>
  2941. </subsection>
  2942. <subsection name="Xcluder">
  2943. <p>xcluder is an XML Inclusions (XInclude) task for Apache Ant.
  2944. Offers the choice of using Xerces or Elliotte Rusty Harold's XOM API.
  2945. </p>
  2946. <table class="externals">
  2947. <tr>
  2948. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2949. <td>Ant 1.4 or later. XInclude compliance depends on the
  2950. underlying Xerces or XOM used. Xerces 2.5.0 and above works fine,
  2951. but please note that 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 processed the
  2952. http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude, now obsolete by
  2953. http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude used by the latest
  2954. Candidate Recommendation (13 April 2004).
  2955. </td>
  2956. </tr>
  2957. <tr>
  2958. <th>URL:</th>
  2959. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcluder">http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcluder</a></td>
  2960. </tr>
  2961. <tr>
  2962. <th>Contact:</th>
  2963. <td><a href="mailto:mbatsis@users.sf.net">mbatsis@users.sf.net</a></td>
  2964. </tr>
  2965. <tr>
  2966. <th>License:</th>
  2967. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Library or Lesser
  2968. General Public License (LGPL)
  2969. </td>
  2970. </tr>
  2971. </table>
  2972. </subsection>
  2973. <subsection name="XDoclet">
  2974. <p>XDoclet is an extended Javadoc Doclet engine for use in Ant.
  2975. It lets you create custom Javadoc @tags and based on those tags
  2976. generates source code or other files (such as xml-ish deployment
  2977. descriptors). Templates and matching tasks are provided to generate
  2978. EJB and web application deployment descriptors.
  2979. </p>
  2980. <table class="externals">
  2981. <tr>
  2982. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  2983. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  2984. </tr>
  2985. <tr>
  2986. <th>URL:</th>
  2987. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet/</a></td>
  2988. </tr>
  2989. <tr>
  2990. <th>License:</th>
  2991. <td>BSD license</td>
  2992. </tr>
  2993. </table>
  2994. </subsection>
  2995. <subsection name="XInclude">
  2996. <p><a href="http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/xia/index.html">XInclude</a> is
  2997. a W3C standardized vocabulary for including arbitrary text or XML
  2998. documents in other XML documents. This task performes the inclusion
  2999. using an existing XInclude implementation</p>
  3000. <table class="externals">
  3001. <tr>
  3002. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3003. <td>Ant 1.5.2</td>
  3004. </tr>
  3005. <tr>
  3006. <th>URL:</th>
  3007. <td>
  3008. <a href="http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/xia/index.html">http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/xia/index.html</a>
  3009. </td>
  3010. </tr>
  3011. <tr>
  3012. <th>Contact:</th>
  3013. <td><a href="mailto:mario@jeckle.de">mario@jeckle.de</a></td>
  3014. </tr>
  3015. <tr>
  3016. <th>License:</th>
  3017. <td>Lesser GNU Public License</td>
  3018. </tr>
  3019. </table>
  3020. </subsection>
  3021. <subsection name="XML Directory Listing Ant Task">
  3022. <p>The XML Directory Listing task can recurse through a directory structure and produce an
  3023. XML representation. The resulting file can then be transformed further with Ant. </p>
  3024. <p>The XML output is configurable through various options. The SAX parsing is fast and has a
  3025. low memory footprint.</p>
  3026. <table class="externals">
  3027. <tr>
  3028. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3029. <td>Ant 1.6.5 or higher</td>
  3030. </tr>
  3031. <tr>
  3032. <th>URL:</th>
  3033. <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/xml-dir-listing/">http://code.google.com/p/xml-dir-listing/</a></td>
  3034. </tr>
  3035. <tr>
  3036. <th>Contact:</th>
  3037. <td><a href="mailto:matt_at_matthaynes_dot_net">M. Haynes</a></td>
  3038. </tr>
  3039. <tr>
  3040. <th>License:</th>
  3041. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  3042. </tr>
  3043. </table>
  3044. </subsection>
  3045. <subsection name="XMLReleaseNotes (XRN)">
  3046. <p>This framework is a release notes framework that enables to
  3047. generate textual release notes from an XML file. This is an
  3048. open framework that enables to integrate the information
  3049. coming from VSC and bug tracking solutions, for instance.</p>
  3050. <table class="externals">
  3051. <tr>
  3052. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3053. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  3054. </tr>
  3055. <tr>
  3056. <th>URL:</th>
  3057. <td><a href="http://xmlreleasenotes.free.fr/">http://xmlreleasenotes.free.fr/</a></td>
  3058. </tr>
  3059. <tr>
  3060. <th>Contact:</th>
  3061. <td>Edouard Mercier</td>
  3062. </tr>
  3063. <tr>
  3064. <th>License:</th>
  3065. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  3066. </tr>
  3067. </table>
  3068. </subsection>
  3069. <subsection name="XmlTask">
  3070. <p>XmlTask provides a simple means to modify XML documents
  3071. without having to learn XSLT. A simple path reference to an
  3072. XML node specifies the node you want to change, and how you
  3073. want to allow XML insertion and removal, or attribute
  3074. changes. The emphasis is on providing the simplest means to
  3075. perform common XML replacements</p>
  3076. <table class="externals">
  3077. <tr>
  3078. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3079. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  3080. </tr>
  3081. <tr>
  3082. <th>URL:</th>
  3083. <td><a href="http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask/">http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask/</a></td>
  3084. </tr>
  3085. <tr>
  3086. <th>Contact:</th>
  3087. <td><a href="mailto:xmltask-users@lists.sourceforge.net">xmltask-users at lists.sourceforge.net</a> </td>
  3088. </tr>
  3089. <tr>
  3090. <th>License:</th>
  3091. <td>Apache Software License 1.1</td>
  3092. </tr>
  3093. </table>
  3094. </subsection>
  3095. <subsection name="yGuard">
  3096. <p>yGuard is a free Java(TM) Bytecode Obfuscator Task that
  3097. needs no external script or project files. It can completely
  3098. be configured and run through the Ant build script. The task
  3099. supports multiple Jar files at once and makes use of
  3100. patternsets and regular expressions to specify elements, which
  3101. should be left unobfuscated. Additionally it can be used to
  3102. produce patches for obfuscated applications that have already
  3103. been deployed.</p>
  3104. <table class="externals">
  3105. <tr>
  3106. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3107. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  3108. </tr>
  3109. <tr>
  3110. <th>URL:</th>
  3111. <td><a href="http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yguard_about.htm">http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yguard_about.htm</a></td>
  3112. </tr>
  3113. <tr>
  3114. <th>Contact:</th>
  3115. <td><a href="mailto:yguard@yworks.com">yGuard@yWorks.com</a></td>
  3116. </tr>
  3117. <tr>
  3118. <th>License:</th>
  3119. <td>Library: LGPL, Task: Commercial</td>
  3120. </tr>
  3121. </table>
  3122. </subsection>
  3123. <subsection name="Zelix KlassMaster">
  3124. <p>The task ZKMTask allows the Zelix KlassMaster Java obfuscator to be integrated into an Ant build.</p>
  3125. <table class="externals">
  3126. <tr>
  3127. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3128. <td>Ant 1.4.1 and later</td>
  3129. </tr>
  3130. <tr>
  3131. <th>URL:</th>
  3132. <td><a href="http://www.zelix.com/klassmaster/docs/buildToolApi.html">http://www.zelix.com/klassmaster/docs/buildToolApi.html</a></td>
  3133. </tr>
  3134. <tr>
  3135. <th>License:</th>
  3136. <td>Commercial</td>
  3137. </tr>
  3138. </table>
  3139. </subsection>
  3140. </section>
  3141. <section name="Build Listeners">
  3142. <subsection name="AntUtility">
  3143. <p>
  3144. Wondering why your Ant build is slow? Is your continuous integration server taking too
  3145. long to produce your project builds? This project may help. This project includes a small
  3146. number of classes for use with Ant that can help you to analyze your build in a
  3147. non-intrusive manner.
  3148. </p>
  3149. <table class="externals">
  3150. <tr>
  3151. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3152. <td>Ant 1.6</td>
  3153. </tr>
  3154. <tr>
  3155. <th>URL:</th>
  3156. <td><a href="https://antutility.dev.java.net/">https://antutility.dev.java.net/</a></td>
  3157. </tr>
  3158. <tr>
  3159. <th>Contact:</th>
  3160. <td><a href="mailto:dgreen@dev.java.net">David Green</a></td>
  3161. </tr>
  3162. <tr>
  3163. <th>License:</th>
  3164. <td><a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache
  3165. License 2.0</a></td>
  3166. </tr>
  3167. </table>
  3168. </subsection>
  3169. </section>
  3170. <section name="Compiler Implementations">
  3171. <subsection name="Generics (JSR14) Early-Access Compiler Adapter">
  3172. <p>This is an Ant compiler-adapter that allows you to use the
  3173. normal <code>&lt;javac&gt;</code> task plus Sun's early-access
  3174. compiler to compile Generics-enabled Java code. (This is only
  3175. necessary until JDK1.5 is released.)</p>
  3176. <table class="externals">
  3177. <tr>
  3178. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3179. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  3180. </tr>
  3181. <tr>
  3182. <th>URL:</th>
  3183. <td><a href="http://www.madbean.com/blog/3/">http://www.madbean.com/blog/3/</a></td>
  3184. </tr>
  3185. <tr>
  3186. <th>Contact:</th>
  3187. <td>Matt Quail &lt;spud[at]madbean[dot]com&gt;</td>
  3188. </tr>
  3189. <tr>
  3190. <th>License:</th>
  3191. <td>Public Domain</td>
  3192. </tr>
  3193. </table>
  3194. </subsection>
  3195. <subsection name="miniRMI &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;rmic&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; implementation">
  3196. <p>miniRMI is a freeware opensource library that serves as a
  3197. lightweight replacement for the original java.rmi packages and
  3198. is suitable especially for applets. Ant 1.4+
  3199. <code>&lt;rmic&gt;</code> adapter included.</p>
  3200. <table class="externals">
  3201. <tr>
  3202. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3203. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  3204. </tr>
  3205. <tr>
  3206. <th>URL:</th>
  3207. <td><a href="http://dione.zcu.cz/~toman40/miniRMI/">http://dione.zcu.cz/~toman40/miniRMI/</a></td>
  3208. </tr>
  3209. <tr>
  3210. <th>Contact:</th>
  3211. <td><a href="mailto:Petr.Toman@pinknet.cz">Petr Toman</a></td>
  3212. </tr>
  3213. <tr>
  3214. <th>License:</th>
  3215. <td>Gnu Lesser Public License</td>
  3216. </tr>
  3217. </table>
  3218. </subsection>
  3219. </section>
  3220. <section name="IDE and Editor Integration">
  3221. <subsection name="AntFarm">
  3222. <p>A plugin that integrates Ant into the jEdit editor.</p>
  3223. <table class="externals">
  3224. <tr>
  3225. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3226. <td>bundles Ant 1.5</td>
  3227. </tr>
  3228. <tr>
  3229. <th>URL:</th>
  3230. <td><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?AntFarm">http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?AntFarm</a></td>
  3231. </tr>
  3232. <tr>
  3233. <th>Contact:</th>
  3234. <td><a href="mailto:jedit-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">jEdit developers mailinglist</a></td>
  3235. </tr>
  3236. <tr>
  3237. <th>License:</th>
  3238. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  3239. </tr>
  3240. </table>
  3241. </subsection>
  3242. <subsection name="AntRunner">
  3243. <p>An OpenTool that integrates Ant into the JBuilder IDE
  3244. (version 5 and later).</p>
  3245. <table class="externals">
  3246. <tr>
  3247. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3248. <td>Ant 1.2 and later</td>
  3249. </tr>
  3250. <tr>
  3251. <th>URL:</th>
  3252. <td><a href="http://antrunner.sourceforge.net/">http://antrunner.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  3253. </tr>
  3254. <tr>
  3255. <th>Contact:</th>
  3256. <td><a href="mailto:dirk.schnelle@web.de">Dirk Schnelle</a></td>
  3257. </tr>
  3258. <tr>
  3259. <th>License:</th>
  3260. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  3261. </tr>
  3262. </table>
  3263. </subsection>
  3264. <subsection name="CAPlex">
  3265. <p>CA Plex is an architected RAD tool that combines the techniques of
  3266. model-driven development, code generation and patterns to create
  3267. business applications for multiple platforms, including Java, .NET and
  3268. IBM System i. In its 6.0 release, CA Plex includes integrated support
  3269. for building generated Java code with Ant.</p>
  3270. <table class="externals">
  3271. <tr>
  3272. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3273. <td>Ant 1.6.5</td>
  3274. </tr>
  3275. <tr>
  3276. <th>URL:</th>
  3277. <td><a href="http://wiki.plexinfo.net/index.php?title=Customizing_Plex_6.0_ANT_builds">http://wiki.plexinfo.net/index.php?title=Customizing_Plex_6.0_ANT_builds</a></td>
  3278. </tr>
  3279. <tr>
  3280. <th>Contact:</th>
  3281. <td><a href="http://www.ca.com/us/products/product.aspx?ID=258">http://www.ca.com/us/products/product.aspx?ID=258</a></td>
  3282. </tr>
  3283. <tr>
  3284. <th>License:</th>
  3285. <td>Commercial</td>
  3286. </tr>
  3287. </table>
  3288. </subsection>
  3289. <subsection name="Eclipse">
  3290. <p>Eclipse is a universal tool platform with Ant integration.</p>
  3291. <table class="externals">
  3292. <tr>
  3293. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3294. <td>
  3295. Ant 1.3 and higher <br/>
  3296. Bundles Ant 1.6.2 as of Eclipse 3.0.1 (tested with Ant 1.5.4 - 1.6.2) <br/>
  3297. Eclipse 3.2 bundles Ant 1.6.5 <br/>
  3298. Eclipse 3.3 bundles Ant 1.7.0
  3299. </td>
  3300. </tr>
  3301. <tr>
  3302. <th>URL:</th>
  3303. <td>
  3304. <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">http://www.eclipse.org/</a>
  3305. or
  3306. <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-ant-home/index.html">
  3307. http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-ant-home/index.html
  3308. </a>
  3309. </td>
  3310. </tr>
  3311. <tr>
  3312. <th>Contact:</th>
  3313. <td><a href="news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.platform">news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.platform</a></td>
  3314. </tr>
  3315. <tr>
  3316. <th>License:</th>
  3317. <td>Common Public License Version 1.0</td>
  3318. </tr>
  3319. </table>
  3320. </subsection>
  3321. <subsection name="Gel">
  3322. <p>Java IDE with support for Ant. Gel is a native Microsoft
  3323. Windows software.</p>
  3324. <table class="externals">
  3325. <tr>
  3326. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3327. <td>Ant 1.4 and above</td>
  3328. </tr>
  3329. <tr>
  3330. <th>URL:</th>
  3331. <td><a href="http://www.gexperts.com/gel.html">http://www.gexperts.com/gel.html</a></td>
  3332. </tr>
  3333. <tr>
  3334. <th>Contact:</th>
  3335. <td><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gelide/">Project Mailing List</a></td>
  3336. </tr>
  3337. <tr>
  3338. <th>License:</th>
  3339. <td>Freeware</td>
  3340. </tr>
  3341. </table>
  3342. </subsection>
  3343. <subsection name="IntelliJ IDEA 5.0">
  3344. <p>Java IDE with refactoring support and Ant integration.
  3345. The IDE has special editing and navigation support for Ant.
  3346. </p>
  3347. <table class="externals">
  3348. <tr>
  3349. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3350. <td>bundles Ant 1.6.5</td>
  3351. </tr>
  3352. <tr>
  3353. <th>URL:</th>
  3354. <td><a href="http://www.intellij.com/idea/">http://www.intellij.com/idea/</a></td>
  3355. </tr>
  3356. <tr>
  3357. <th>Contact:</th>
  3358. <td><a href="mailto:support@intellij.com">support@intellij.com</a></td>
  3359. </tr>
  3360. <tr>
  3361. <th>License:</th>
  3362. <td>Commercial; Academic and OpenSource licenses available.</td>
  3363. </tr>
  3364. </table>
  3365. </subsection>
  3366. <subsection name="JBuilder">
  3367. <p>Borland JBuilder
  3368. comes with built-in Ant support, including build file editing.
  3369. Some versions come with Ant debugging support.</p>
  3370. <table class="externals">
  3371. <tr>
  3372. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3373. <td>Bundles Ant 1.6</td>
  3374. </tr>
  3375. <tr>
  3376. <th>URL:</th>
  3377. <td><a href="http://www.codegear.com/en/products/jbuilder">http://www.codegear.com/en/products/jbuilder</a></td>
  3378. </tr>
  3379. <tr>
  3380. <th>Contact:</th>
  3381. <td><a href="http://support.codegear.com/en">http://support.codegear.com/en</a></td>
  3382. </tr>
  3383. <tr>
  3384. <th>License:</th>
  3385. <td>Commercial; Turbo JBuilder 2007 is free.</td>
  3386. </tr>
  3387. </table>
  3388. </subsection>
  3389. <subsection name="JDEE">
  3390. <p>The Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDEE) supports
  3391. Apache Ant as one of three built-in ways to build your
  3392. applications.</p>
  3393. <table class="externals">
  3394. <tr>
  3395. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3396. <td>Ant 1.2 and later</td>
  3397. </tr>
  3398. <tr>
  3399. <th>URL:</th>
  3400. <td><a href="http://jdee.sunsite.dk/">http://jdee.sunsite.dk/</a></td>
  3401. </tr>
  3402. <tr>
  3403. <th>Contact:</th>
  3404. <td><a href="mailto:jde-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk">JDEE Mailing list.</a></td>
  3405. </tr>
  3406. <tr>
  3407. <th>License:</th>
  3408. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  3409. </tr>
  3410. </table>
  3411. </subsection>
  3412. <subsection name="NetBeans">
  3413. <p>A module that integrates Ant into the NetBeans IDE, as well as derivative products such as Sun Java
  3414. Studio (formerly Forte for Java and Sun ONE Studio) and Sun Java Studio Creator.
  3415. This IDE uses Ant as its <i>sole</i> means of building applications,
  3416. with custom tasks and an Ant-aware editor.</p>
  3417. <table class="externals">
  3418. <tr>
  3419. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3420. <td>bundles 1.7.0 for NetBeans 6.0 and 6.1, 1.7.1 for 6.5</td>
  3421. </tr>
  3422. <tr>
  3423. <th>URL:</th>
  3424. <td><a href="http://www.netbeans.org/">http://www.netbeans.org/</a></td>
  3425. </tr>
  3426. <tr>
  3427. <th>Contact:</th>
  3428. <td><a href="mailto:nbdev@netbeans.org">nbdev@netbeans.org</a></td>
  3429. </tr>
  3430. <tr>
  3431. <th>License:</th>
  3432. <td>Common Development and Distribution License / GNU General Public License</td>
  3433. </tr>
  3434. </table>
  3435. </subsection>
  3436. <subsection name="Optistic IDX Java IDE">
  3437. <p>Java IDE with deep Ant integration. IDX is a native Microsoft Windows program.</p>
  3438. <table class="externals">
  3439. <tr>
  3440. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3441. <td>bundles Ant 1.6</td>
  3442. </tr>
  3443. <tr>
  3444. <th>URL:</th>
  3445. <td>
  3446. <a href="http://www.optistic.com/idx">http://optistic.com/idx</a>
  3447. </td>
  3448. </tr>
  3449. <tr>
  3450. <th>Contact:</th>
  3451. <td>
  3452. <a href="mailto:support@optistic.com">support@optistic.com</a>
  3453. </td>
  3454. </tr>
  3455. <tr>
  3456. <th>License:</th>
  3457. <td>Commercial; Academic and OpenSource licenses available.</td>
  3458. </tr>
  3459. </table>
  3460. </subsection>
  3461. <subsection name="Oracle JDeveloper 10i">
  3462. <p>Java IDE with support for Ant.</p>
  3463. <table class="externals">
  3464. <tr>
  3465. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3466. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  3467. </tr>
  3468. <tr>
  3469. <th>URL:</th>
  3470. <td><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/index.html">http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/index.html</a></td>
  3471. </tr>
  3472. <tr>
  3473. <th>Contact:</th>
  3474. <td><a href="http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=83">JDeveloper Forum</a></td>
  3475. </tr>
  3476. <tr>
  3477. <th>License:</th>
  3478. <td>Commercial</td>
  3479. </tr>
  3480. </table>
  3481. </subsection>
  3482. <subsection name="Virtual Ant">
  3483. <p>
  3484. Instead of manually creating build scripts in XML, Virtual Ant provides a fully virtual file system
  3485. where you can run your tasks in real time and see the results. Everything that you do is recorded and
  3486. turned into an Ant build script.
  3487. </p>
  3488. <table class="externals">
  3489. <tr>
  3490. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3491. <td>
  3492. Ant 1.6.5 onwards
  3493. </td>
  3494. </tr>
  3495. <tr>
  3496. <th>URL:</th>
  3497. <td>
  3498. <a href="http://www.placidsystems.com/virtualant/">http://www.placidsystems.com/virtualant/</a>
  3499. </td>
  3500. </tr>
  3501. <tr>
  3502. <th>Contact:</th>
  3503. <td>
  3504. <a href="mailto:support@placidsystems.com">support@placidsystems.com</a>
  3505. </td>
  3506. </tr>
  3507. <tr>
  3508. <th>License:</th>
  3509. <td>Commercial; OpenSource licenses available too.</td>
  3510. </tr>
  3511. </table>
  3512. </subsection>
  3513. <subsection name="WebSphere Studio Application Developer">
  3514. <p>WSAD features Ant integrate by virtue of being built on the Eclipse tools platform.</p>
  3515. <table class="externals">
  3516. <tr>
  3517. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3518. <td>bundles Ant 1.4.1</td>
  3519. </tr>
  3520. <tr>
  3521. <th>URL:</th>
  3522. <td><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/</a></td>
  3523. </tr>
  3524. <tr>
  3525. <th>Article:</th>
  3526. <td>Using Ant with WebSphere Studio Application Developer<ul>
  3527. <li><a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0203_searle/searle1.html">Part 1</a></li>
  3528. <li><a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0203_searle/searle2.html">Part 2</a></li>
  3529. <li><a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0203_searle/searle3.html">Part 3</a></li>
  3530. </ul></td>
  3531. </tr>
  3532. <tr>
  3533. <th>License:</th>
  3534. <td>Commercial</td>
  3535. </tr>
  3536. </table>
  3537. </subsection>
  3538. </section>
  3539. <section name="Source Control Systems">
  3540. <p>There are several integration with SCM systems. Some are
  3541. <a href="manual/tasksoverview.html#scm">built in</a>. But some are available as
  3542. external libraries. Here a list of task libraries we are aware of:</p>
  3543. <subsection name="clearAntLib">
  3544. <p>This library is a collection of "value-add" Ant tasks for integrating
  3545. IBM Rational ClearCase with Apache Ant. The integration makes full use
  3546. of the power and capabilities of Ant, with support for nested elements
  3547. (such as filesets) and also supports conditions. There are a number of
  3548. tasks for creating XML reports on both ClearCase baselines and labels as
  3549. well as a task for "staging" ClearCase objects.</p>
  3550. <table class="externals">
  3551. <tr>
  3552. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3553. <td>Ant 1.6.1 and later</td>
  3554. </tr>
  3555. <tr>
  3556. <th>URL:</th>
  3557. <td><a href="http://clearantlib.sourceforge.net/">
  3558. http://clearantlib.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  3559. </tr>
  3560. <tr>
  3561. <th>Contact:</th>
  3562. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=123764">Forum</a></td>
  3563. </tr>
  3564. <tr>
  3565. <th>License:</th>
  3566. <td>Apache License 2.0</td>
  3567. </tr>
  3568. </table>
  3569. </subsection>
  3570. <subsection name="Surround SCM">
  3571. <p>These are tasks that allow users to access Surround SCM
  3572. functionality from within Ant build scripts.</p>
  3573. <table class="externals">
  3574. <tr>
  3575. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  3576. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  3577. </tr>
  3578. <tr>
  3579. <th>URL:</th>
  3580. <td><a href="http://www.seapine.com/scmresources.php#integration">
  3581. Surround SCM Resource Center</a></td>
  3582. </tr>
  3583. <tr>
  3584. <th>Contact:</th>
  3585. <td><a href="mailto:support@seapine.com">Seapine Support</a></td>
  3586. </tr>
  3587. <tr>
  3588. <th>License:</th>
  3589. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td>
  3590. </tr>
  3591. </table>
  3592. </subsection>
  3593. </section>
  3594. </body>
  3595. </document>