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  2. <document>
  3. <properties>
  4. <author email="bodewig@apache.org">Stefan Bodewig</author>
  5. <title>External Tools and Tasks</title>
  6. </properties>
  7. <body>
  8. <section name="External Tools and Tasks">
  9. <p>This page lists external resources for Apache Ant: <a
  10. href="#Tasks">tasks</a>, <a
  11. href="#Compiler%20Implementations">Compiler Implementations</a>,
  12. <a href="#IDE%20and%20Editor%20Integration">IDE integration
  13. tools</a>, loggers, you name it. If you've written
  14. something that should be included, please post all relevant
  15. information to one of the mailing lists. For details, see the
  16. <a href="faq.html#adding-external-tasks">FAQ</a>.</p>
  17. <p>Nothing listed here is directly supported by the Ant
  18. developers, if you encounter any problems with them, please use
  19. the contact information.</p>
  20. </section>
  21. <section name="Tasks">
  22. <subsection name="AJC">
  23. <p><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/">AspectJ</a> is an
  24. aspect-oriented extension to Java. This task compiles a
  25. source tree using the AspectJ compiler -- AJC.</p>
  26. <table>
  27. <tr>
  28. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  29. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  30. </tr>
  31. <tr>
  32. <th>URL:</th>
  33. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/">http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/</a></td>
  34. </tr>
  35. <tr>
  36. <th>Contact:</th>
  37. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/">project mailing lists</a></td>
  38. </tr>
  39. <tr>
  40. <th>License:</th>
  41. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  42. </tr>
  43. </table>
  44. </subsection>
  45. <subsection name="Anakia">
  46. <p>Actually, Anakia is more than just an Ant task, it is a an
  47. XML transformation tool based on JDOM, Velocity and Ant.</p>
  48. <table>
  49. <tr>
  50. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  51. <td>Ant 1.2 and later</td>
  52. </tr>
  53. <tr>
  54. <th>URL:</th>
  55. <td><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html">http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html</a></td>
  56. </tr>
  57. <tr>
  58. <th>Contact:</th>
  59. <td><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html">Velocity mailing lists</a></td>
  60. </tr>
  61. <tr>
  62. <th>License:</th>
  63. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  64. </tr>
  65. </table>
  66. </subsection>
  67. <subsection name="Anteater">
  68. <p>Anteater is a set of Ant tasks for the functional testing of websites
  69. and web services (functional testing being; hit a URL and ensure the
  70. response meets certain criteria). Can test HTTP params, response
  71. codes, XPath, regexp and Relax NG expressions. Includes HTML reporting
  72. (based on junitreport) and a hierarchical grouping system for quickly
  73. configuring large test scripts.
  74. </p>
  75. <table>
  76. <tr>
  77. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  78. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  79. </tr>
  80. <tr>
  81. <th>URL:</th>
  82. <td><a href="http://aft.sourceforge.net/">http://aft.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  83. </tr>
  84. <tr>
  85. <th>Contact:</th>
  86. <td><a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aft-devel">developer
  87. mailing list</a></td>
  88. </tr>
  89. <tr>
  90. <th>License:</th>
  91. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  92. </tr>
  93. </table>
  94. </subsection>
  95. <subsection name="Checkstyle">
  96. <p>Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write
  97. Java code that adheres to a coding standard. Its purpose is to
  98. automate the process of checking Java code, and to spare
  99. humans of this boring (but important) task.</p>
  100. <p>Checkstyle can be run via an Ant task or a command line
  101. utility.</p>
  102. <table>
  103. <tr>
  104. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  105. <td>Ant 1.4.1 and later</td>
  106. </tr>
  107. <tr>
  108. <th>URL:</th>
  109. <td><a href="http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/">http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  110. </tr>
  111. <tr>
  112. <th>Contact:</th>
  113. <td><a href="mailto:checkstyle@puppycrawl.com">Oliver Burn</a></td>
  114. </tr>
  115. <tr>
  116. <th>License:</th>
  117. <td>Starting with release 2.0 the license is the GNU
  118. Lesser General Public License. Prior releases were under
  119. the GNU General Public License.</td>
  120. </tr>
  121. </table>
  122. </subsection>
  123. <subsection name="ChownTask">
  124. <p>ChownTask is an Ant task to change ownership of files on
  125. Unix.</p>
  126. <table>
  127. <tr>
  128. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  129. <td>Ant 1.3 and up</td>
  130. </tr>
  131. <tr>
  132. <th>URL:</th>
  133. <td>
  134. <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/chowntask/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/chowntask/</a>
  135. </td>
  136. </tr>
  137. <tr>
  138. <th>Contact:</th>
  139. <td><a href="mailto:chowntask-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Wilfred Springer</a>
  140. </td>
  141. </tr>
  142. <tr>
  143. <th>License:</th>
  144. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  145. </tr>
  146. </table>
  147. </subsection>
  148. <subsection name="CleanImports">
  149. <p>Removes unneeded imports. Formats your import
  150. sections. Flags ambiguous imports.</p>
  151. <table>
  152. <tr>
  153. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  154. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  155. </tr>
  156. <tr>
  157. <th>URL:</th>
  158. <td><a href="http://www.euronet.nl/users/tomb/cleanImports/index.html">http://www.euronet.nl/users/tomb/cleanImports/index.html</a></td>
  159. </tr>
  160. <tr>
  161. <th>Contact:</th>
  162. <td><a href="mailto:tomb@euronet.nl">Tom Brus</a></td>
  163. </tr>
  164. <tr>
  165. <th>License:</th>
  166. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  167. </tr>
  168. </table>
  169. </subsection>
  170. <subsection name="Clover">
  171. <p>Clover is an Ant-based Code Coverage tool. It can be used
  172. seamlessly with Ant-based projects. It provides method,
  173. statement, and branch coverage analysis, and has rich
  174. reporting in XML, HTML or via a Swing GUI.</p>
  175. <table>
  176. <tr>
  177. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  178. <td>Ant 1.4.1 or greater</td>
  179. </tr>
  180. <tr>
  181. <th>URL:</th>
  182. <td><a href="http://www.thecortex.net/clover/">http://www.thecortex.net/clover/</a></td>
  183. </tr>
  184. <tr>
  185. <th>Contact:</th>
  186. <td><a href="mailto:clover-support@cortexebusiness.com.au">clover-support@cortexebusiness.com.au</a></td>
  187. </tr>
  188. <tr>
  189. <th>License:</th>
  190. <td>Commercial, free licenses available for open source
  191. projects.</td>
  192. </tr>
  193. </table>
  194. </subsection>
  195. <subsection name="Configure">
  196. <p>Recursive build support (call ant on every package level,
  197. and only build files in that package or in that package and
  198. everything below) with seperation of source and output.</p>
  199. <p>The task generates build files in any subdirectory (except
  200. for CVS-directories) for you. Only place one build.xml file in
  201. the top and call target &apos;setup&apos; or
  202. &apos;rescan&apos;.</p>
  203. <table>
  204. <tr>
  205. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  206. <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
  207. </tr>
  208. <tr>
  209. <th>URL:</th>
  210. <td><a href="http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/">http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/</a></td>
  211. </tr>
  212. <tr>
  213. <th>Contact:</th>
  214. <td><a href="mailto:lemval@dsdelft.nl">M.J.P. van Leeuwen</a></td>
  215. </tr>
  216. <tr>
  217. <th>License:</th>
  218. <td>License derived from Apache Software License</td>
  219. </tr>
  220. </table>
  221. </subsection>
  222. <subsection name="CVSGrab">
  223. <p>A little CVS client that can be useful when people are
  224. behind corporate firewall that blocks any cvs
  225. communications. It uses the ViewCVS web interface to access
  226. the CVS repository via standard http, and downloads all the
  227. files present in it.</p>
  228. <p>It works from the command line or as an Ant task.</p>
  229. <table>
  230. <tr>
  231. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  232. <td>Ant 1.3 or higher</td>
  233. </tr>
  234. <tr>
  235. <th>URL:</th>
  236. <td><a href="http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net/">http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  237. </tr>
  238. <tr>
  239. <th>Contact:</th>
  240. <td><a href="mailto:cvsgrab-users@lists.sourceforge.net">CVSGrab
  241. user mailing list</a></td>
  242. </tr>
  243. <tr>
  244. <th>License:</th>
  245. <td>LGPL</td>
  246. </tr>
  247. </table>
  248. </subsection>
  249. <subsection name="Doxygen task">
  250. <p>There are two Ant tasks for running the Doxygen
  251. documentation system.</p>
  252. <table>
  253. <tr>
  254. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  255. <td>Ant 1.1 and later</td>
  256. </tr>
  257. <tr>
  258. <th>URL:</th>
  259. <td><a href="http://www.bgw.org/projects/java/ant/">http://www.bgw.org/projects/java/ant/</a></td>
  260. </tr>
  261. <tr>
  262. <th>Contact:</th>
  263. <td><a href="mailto:mortis@voicenet.com">Kyle R. Burton</a></td>
  264. </tr>
  265. <tr>
  266. <th>License:</th>
  267. <td>Apache Software Foundation License</td>
  268. </tr>
  269. </table>
  270. <p>and</p>
  271. <table>
  272. <tr>
  273. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  274. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  275. </tr>
  276. <tr>
  277. <th>URL:</th>
  278. <td><a href="http://ant-doxygen.sourceforge.net/">http://ant-doxygen.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  279. </tr>
  280. <tr>
  281. <th>Contact:</th>
  282. <td><a href="mailto:akkumar@users.sourceforge.net">Karthik A Kumar</a></td>
  283. </tr>
  284. <tr>
  285. <th>License:</th>
  286. <td>Apache Software Foundation License</td>
  287. </tr>
  288. </table>
  289. </subsection>
  290. <subsection name="GenJar">
  291. <p>Builds a JAR file based on class dependencies rather than simply the contents of a directory</p>
  292. <table>
  293. <tr>
  294. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  295. <td>Ant 1.4 alpha (built after 2001/08/04) and later</td>
  296. </tr>
  297. <tr>
  298. <th>URL:</th>
  299. <td><a href="http://genjar.sourceforge.net/">http://genjar.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  300. </tr>
  301. <tr>
  302. <th>Contact:</th>
  303. <td><a href="mailto:jesse_dev@yahoo.com">Jesse Stockall</a></td>
  304. </tr>
  305. <tr>
  306. <th>License:</th>
  307. <td>Apache Software Foundation License</td>
  308. </tr>
  309. </table>
  310. </subsection>
  311. <subsection name="Greebo">
  312. <p>Greebo is an Ant-task for downloading dependency files
  313. (currently only jars) from a network to a specified directory,
  314. much like Maven. It supports multiple local and remote
  315. repositories with either flat or maven-like structures. It can
  316. read the dependency list from a Maven project file, a
  317. maven-like dependency file, or directly from the build.xml
  318. file.</p>
  319. <table>
  320. <tr>
  321. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  322. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  323. </tr>
  324. <tr>
  325. <th>URL:</th>
  326. <td><a href="http://greebo.sourceforge.net/">http://greebo.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  327. </tr>
  328. <tr>
  329. <th>Contact:</th>
  330. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=73733">project mailing lists</a></td>
  331. </tr>
  332. <tr>
  333. <th>License:</th>
  334. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  335. </tr>
  336. </table>
  337. </subsection>
  338. <subsection name="Importscrubber">
  339. <p>Removes unnecessary import statements from a Java source code file.</p>
  340. <table>
  341. <tr>
  342. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  343. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  344. </tr>
  345. <tr>
  346. <th>URL:</th>
  347. <td><a href="http://importscrubber.sourceforge.net/">http://importscrubber.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  348. </tr>
  349. <tr>
  350. <th>Contact:</th>
  351. <td><a href="mailto:tomcopeland@users.sourceforge.net">Tom Copeland</a></td>
  352. </tr>
  353. <tr>
  354. <th>License:</th>
  355. <td>LGPL</td>
  356. </tr>
  357. </table>
  358. </subsection>
  359. <subsection name="Interactive">
  360. <p>Task allowing to run a dialog within a build used to setup
  361. some properties. This way you can fill a property with the
  362. input of a user.</p>
  363. <table>
  364. <tr>
  365. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  366. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  367. </tr>
  368. <tr>
  369. <th>URL:</th>
  370. <td><a href="http://www.kasisoft.de/build/ant/interactive/">http://www.kasisoft.de/build/ant/interactive/</a></td>
  371. </tr>
  372. <tr>
  373. <th>Contact:</th>
  374. <td><a href="mailto:support@kasisoft.de">Daniel Kasmeroglu</a></td>
  375. </tr>
  376. <tr>
  377. <th>License:</th>
  378. <td>LGPL</td>
  379. </tr>
  380. </table>
  381. </subsection>
  382. <subsection name="IsDirValidator">
  383. <p>Checks whether a given directory structure conforms to
  384. certain rules that are defined via nested elements of the
  385. task.</p>
  386. <table>
  387. <tr>
  388. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  389. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  390. </tr>
  391. <tr>
  392. <th>URL:</th>
  393. <td><a href="http://isvalidator.sourceforge.net/en/isDirValidator.htm">http://isvalidator.sourceforge.net/en/isDirValidator.htm</a></td>
  394. </tr>
  395. <tr>
  396. <th>Contact:</th>
  397. <td><a href="mailto:news@inigoserrano.com">I&#xF1;igo Serrano</a></td>
  398. </tr>
  399. <tr>
  400. <th>License:</th>
  401. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  402. </tr>
  403. </table>
  404. </subsection>
  405. <subsection name="J2ME Ant Tasks">
  406. <p>There are four different sets of tasks to help build <a
  407. href="http://java.sun.com/j2me/">Java 2 Platform, Micro
  408. Edition</a> (J2ME) applications.</p>
  409. <p>This set supports CLDC and the K Virtual Machine (KVM):</p>
  410. <table>
  411. <tr>
  412. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  413. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  414. </tr>
  415. <tr>
  416. <th>URL:</th>
  417. <td><a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/">http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/</a></td>
  418. </tr>
  419. <tr>
  420. <th>Contact:</th>
  421. <td><a href="mailto:drib@enteract.com">Dave Dribin</a></td>
  422. </tr>
  423. <tr>
  424. <th>License:</th>
  425. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  426. </tr>
  427. </table>
  428. <p>And this set works with the J2ME Wireless Toolkit and MIDP
  429. for PalmOS:</p>
  430. <table>
  431. <tr>
  432. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  433. <td>Ant 1.3</td>
  434. </tr>
  435. <tr>
  436. <th>URL:</th>
  437. <td><a href="http://www.stampysoft.com/ant/">http://www.stampysoft.com/ant/</a></td>
  438. </tr>
  439. <tr>
  440. <th>Contact:</th>
  441. <td><a href="mailto:jeckels@stampysoft.com">Josh Eckels</a></td>
  442. </tr>
  443. <tr>
  444. <th>License:</th>
  445. <td>MIT License</td>
  446. </tr>
  447. </table>
  448. <p>With Antenna, you can compile, preverify, package, and
  449. obfuscate your MIDP applications, as well as convert them to
  450. PRC files designed to run on MIDP for PalmOS. The tasks are
  451. mostly built around the Wireless Toolkit and the free
  452. RetroGuard obfuscator, with some additional gimmicks like
  453. automatic version numbering.</p>
  454. <table>
  455. <tr>
  456. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  457. <td>Ant 1.4.1 or later</td>
  458. </tr>
  459. <tr>
  460. <th>URL:</th>
  461. <td><a href="http://antenna.sourceforge.net/">http://antenna.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  462. </tr>
  463. <tr>
  464. <th>Contact:</th>
  465. <td><a href="mailto:joerg@pleumann.de">J&#xF6;rg Pleumann</a></td>
  466. </tr>
  467. <tr>
  468. <th>License:</th>
  469. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td>
  470. </tr>
  471. </table>
  472. <p>Antic is a freely available task for packaging J2ME
  473. applications. It produces both the Jar and Jad files in a
  474. single step. This allows *all* entries to be correclty set in
  475. the jad file, including the size of the jar file that is
  476. produced. This task has been used and tested extensively with
  477. Sun's Wireless Toolkit and also the Nokia SDK and
  478. emulators.</p>
  479. <table>
  480. <tr>
  481. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  482. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  483. </tr>
  484. <tr>
  485. <th>URL:</th>
  486. <td><a href="http://www.smartkey.co.uk/antic.html">http://www.smartkey.co.uk/antic.html</a>
  487. </td>
  488. </tr>
  489. <tr>
  490. <th>Contact:</th>
  491. <td><a href="mailto:support@smartkey.co.uk">smartkey.co.uk</a></td>
  492. </tr>
  493. <tr>
  494. <th>License:</th>
  495. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  496. </tr>
  497. </table>
  498. </subsection>
  499. <subsection name="Jacson">
  500. <p>Jacson is a configurable and plugable tool (much like Ant
  501. itself) to create filters for text (line based) files without
  502. programming.</p>
  503. <table>
  504. <tr>
  505. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  506. <td>Jacson has been used and tested with 1.5.1, should
  507. work with 1.4+</td>
  508. </tr>
  509. <tr>
  510. <th>URL:</th>
  511. <td><a href="http://jacson.sourceforge.net/">http://jacson.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  512. </tr>
  513. <tr>
  514. <th>Contact:</th>
  515. <td><a href="mailto:jacson-user@lists.sourceforge.de">jacson-user@lists.sourceforge.de</a></td>
  516. </tr>
  517. <tr>
  518. <th>License:</th>
  519. <td>GNU Library or Lesser General Public License</td>
  520. </tr>
  521. </table>
  522. </subsection>
  523. <subsection name="Jalopy">
  524. <p>An Ant Plug-in for the Java Source Code Formatter
  525. Jalopy.</p>
  526. <table>
  527. <tr>
  528. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  529. <td>Ant 1.4 (or higher)</td>
  530. </tr>
  531. <tr>
  532. <th>URL:</th>
  533. <td><a href="http://jalopy.sourceforge.net/">http://jalopy.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  534. </tr>
  535. <tr>
  536. <th>Contact:</th>
  537. <td><a href="http://jalopy.sf.net/contact.html">http://jalopy.sf.net/contact.html</a></td>
  538. </tr>
  539. <tr>
  540. <th>License:</th>
  541. <td>Starting with release 1.0 Beta 6 the license is the
  542. BSD License. Prior releases were under the GNU General
  543. Public License.</td>
  544. </tr>
  545. </table>
  546. </subsection>
  547. <subsection name="Java+ Precompile Task">
  548. <p>Java+ is an open source Java preprocessorthat adds these
  549. features to any Java compiler:</p>
  550. <ul>
  551. <li>Multi-line strings with executable inclusions like Perl
  552. and Ruby. It eliminates the need for JSP or ASP and their
  553. need for Java compilers on deployment servers (a security
  554. concern) while adding no overhead in either space or
  555. time. </li>
  556. <li>Optionally supports localization by segregating Java+
  557. strings into ResourceBundle files with invarient keys based
  558. on the hash code of the strings's value. This is handled
  559. automatically and transparently; no intervention is
  560. required.</li>
  561. <li>Fast. Negligible impact on build times. By default,
  562. skips inputs whose outputs are up to date to avoid
  563. triggering recompilations.</li>
  564. <li>Pure Java code, portable to any platform, with
  565. graphical, shell and ant interfaces.</li>
  566. <li>Simple, general, recursive, digraph-driven string
  567. syntax. Digraph characters are user-selectable.</li>
  568. </ul>
  569. <table>
  570. <tr>
  571. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  572. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  573. </tr>
  574. <tr>
  575. <th>URL:</th>
  576. <td><a href="http://virtualschool.edu/java+/">http://virtualschool.edu/java+/</a></td>
  577. </tr>
  578. <tr>
  579. <th>Contact:</th>
  580. <td><a href="mailto:bcox@virtualschool.edu">Brad Cox</a></td>
  581. </tr>
  582. <tr>
  583. <th>License:</th>
  584. <td>BSD-like License</td>
  585. </tr>
  586. </table>
  587. </subsection>
  588. <subsection name="Java2Html">
  589. <p>Uses the Java2Html library for converting java source files
  590. or snipplets to syntax highlighted html, rtf, tex and
  591. others.</p>
  592. <table>
  593. <tr>
  594. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  595. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  596. </tr>
  597. <tr>
  598. <th>URL:</th>
  599. <td><a href="http://www.java2html.de/">http://www.java2html.de/</a></td>
  600. </tr>
  601. <tr>
  602. <th>Contact:</th>
  603. <td><a href="mailto:java2html@jave.de">java2html@jave.de</a></td>
  604. </tr>
  605. <tr>
  606. <th>License:</th>
  607. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  608. </tr>
  609. </table>
  610. </subsection>
  611. <subsection name="Javamake">
  612. <p>A task to compile Java sources and manage class file
  613. dependencies. Functionality is equivalent to that of standard
  614. Javac and Depend tasks combined, with improved dependency
  615. checking.</p>
  616. <table>
  617. <tr>
  618. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  619. <td>Ant 1.4.1</td>
  620. </tr>
  621. <tr>
  622. <th>URL:</th>
  623. <td><a href="http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html">http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html</a></td>
  624. </tr>
  625. <tr>
  626. <th>Contact:</th>
  627. <td><a href="mailto:Mikhail.Dmitriev@eng.sun.com">Mikhail Dmitriev</a></td>
  628. </tr>
  629. <tr>
  630. <th>License:</th>
  631. <td>BSD-like License</td>
  632. </tr>
  633. </table>
  634. </subsection>
  635. <subsection name="javarec">
  636. <p>Ant tasks that generate record classes for VisualAge for
  637. Java from Cobol copy books.</p>
  638. <table>
  639. <tr>
  640. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  641. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  642. </tr>
  643. <tr>
  644. <th>URL:</th>
  645. <td><a href="http://glezen.org/javarec/">http://glezen.org/javarec/</a></td>
  646. </tr>
  647. <tr>
  648. <th>Contact:</th>
  649. <td><a href="mailto:pglezen@us.ibm.com">Paul Glezen</a></td>
  650. </tr>
  651. <tr>
  652. <th>License:</th>
  653. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  654. </tr>
  655. </table>
  656. </subsection>
  657. <subsection name="JCSC">
  658. <p>JCSC is a Java Coding Standard Checker which also features
  659. the generation of some code metrics. It is a command line tool
  660. with an Ant task to scan whole package trees. The result can
  661. viewed in an JavaDoc style web page.</p>
  662. <table>
  663. <tr>
  664. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  665. <td>Ant &gt;= 1.5</td>
  666. </tr>
  667. <tr>
  668. <th>URL:</th>
  669. <td><a href="http://jcsc.sourceforge.net/">http://jcsc.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  670. </tr>
  671. <tr>
  672. <th>Contact:</th>
  673. <td><a href="mailto:rjocham72@netscape.net">Ralph Jocham</a></td>
  674. </tr>
  675. <tr>
  676. <th>License:</th>
  677. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  678. </tr>
  679. </table>
  680. </subsection>
  681. <subsection name="JFlex">
  682. <p>JFlex is a lexical analyzer generator (also known as
  683. scanner generator) for Java, written in Java.</p>
  684. <table>
  685. <tr>
  686. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  687. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  688. </tr>
  689. <tr>
  690. <th>URL:</th>
  691. <td><a href="http://jflex.de/">http://jflex.de/</a></td>
  692. </tr>
  693. <tr>
  694. <th>Contact:</th>
  695. <td><a href="http://www.jflex.de/mailing.html">jflex-users mailing list</a></td>
  696. </tr>
  697. <tr>
  698. <th>License:</th>
  699. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL)</td>
  700. </tr>
  701. </table>
  702. </subsection>
  703. <subsection name="Jing Task">
  704. <p> Validates XML files against the RELAX NG alternative to XML Schema.
  705. The Jing task for Ant allows you to efficiently validate
  706. multiple files against multiple RELAX NG patterns and integrate
  707. RELAX NG validation with other XML processing.</p>
  708. <table>
  709. <tr>
  710. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  711. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  712. </tr>
  713. <tr>
  714. <th>URL:</th>
  715. <td><a href="http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing-ant.html">
  716. http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing-ant.html</a></td>
  717. </tr>
  718. <tr>
  719. <th>License:</th>
  720. <td>BSD-like</td>
  721. </tr>
  722. </table>
  723. </subsection>
  724. <subsection name="jMetra">
  725. <p>jMetra is a tool for collecting code metrics across a
  726. project lifecycle and compiling the results into
  727. JavaDoc-styled documentation to analyze project metrics over
  728. time. jMetra is best utilized by integrating it with your
  729. project's scheduled build process.</p>
  730. <p>It works from the command line or using several provided
  731. Ant tasks.</p>
  732. <table>
  733. <tr>
  734. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  735. <td>Ant 1.4 and higher</td>
  736. </tr>
  737. <tr>
  738. <th>URL:</th>
  739. <td>
  740. <a href="http://www.jmetra.com/">http://www.jmetra.com/</a
  741. >
  742. </td>
  743. </tr>
  744. <tr>
  745. <th>Contact:</th>
  746. <td>
  747. <a href="mailto:tnewton@hypercisioninc.com">R Todd Newton
  748. </a>
  749. </td>
  750. </tr>
  751. <tr>
  752. <th>License:</th>
  753. <td>Commercial, free licenses for open source projects and
  754. evaluations.</td>
  755. </tr>
  756. </table>
  757. </subsection>
  758. <subsection name="JNI">
  759. <p>
  760. JNI is a free toolkit that makes easy work of
  761. integrating Java and C through the Java Native
  762. Interface (JNI). It includes a code generator that
  763. generates both Java "proxy" classes to access C
  764. "peer" classes, and C "proxy" classes to access
  765. Java "peer" classes or interfaces. It also
  766. includes a core library with a simplified JVM
  767. interface as well as "helper" classes to ease
  768. working with the JNI data types. The code
  769. generation is driven by an XML project file that
  770. can be created with the assistance of the GUI
  771. Project Manager. The code generation can be
  772. invoked either from Ant or from the
  773. GUI. Includes a comprehensive printable PDF User
  774. Guide and plenty of examples.</p>
  775. <table>
  776. <tr>
  777. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  778. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  779. </tr>
  780. <tr>
  781. <th>URL:</th>
  782. <td><a href="http://jnipp.sf.net/">http://jnipp.sf.net/</a></td>
  783. </tr>
  784. <tr>
  785. <th>Contact:</th>
  786. <td><a href="mailto:ptrewhella@users.sf.net">Phillip E. Trewhella</a></td>
  787. </tr>
  788. <tr>
  789. <th>License:</th>
  790. <td>GNU LGPL</td>
  791. </tr>
  792. </table>
  793. </subsection>
  794. <subsection name="JRun Ant Tasks">
  795. <p>JRun 4 SP1 ships with lib/jrun-ant-tasks.jar, which defines
  796. three Ant tasks: jrun, jrunapp, and jrunjmx. Documentation
  797. for the tasks can be found in JRun under
  798. docs/ant/jrun.html.</p>
  799. <p>Note that the service pack must be installed on top of an
  800. existing JRun 4 installation.</p>
  801. <table>
  802. <tr>
  803. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  804. <td>Ant 1.4 or higher</td>
  805. </tr>
  806. <tr>
  807. <th>URL:</th>
  808. <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>
  809. </tr>
  810. <tr>
  811. <th>Contact:</th>
  812. <td><a href="mailto:bdeitte@macromedia.com">Brian Deitte</a></td>
  813. </tr>
  814. <tr>
  815. <th>License:</th>
  816. <td>Commercial</td>
  817. </tr>
  818. </table>
  819. </subsection>
  820. <subsection name="Macker">
  821. <p>A build-time architectural testing tool, designed
  822. to maintain clean layering / tiering / modularity.
  823. Macker works against compiled class files, checking
  824. dependencies between classes against a set of
  825. pattern-based access rules you specify for your
  826. project in an XML rules file. Macker doesn't presume
  827. anything about your architecture -- you write the
  828. rules, and Macker keeps you honest about them.</p>
  829. <table>
  830. <tr>
  831. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  832. <td>Ant 1.5 and higher (1.4 untested but may work)</td>
  833. </tr>
  834. <tr>
  835. <th>URL:</th>
  836. <td><a href="http://innig.net/macker/">http://innig.net/macker/</a></td>
  837. </tr>
  838. <tr>
  839. <th>Contact:</th>
  840. <td><a href="http://innig.net/macker/contact.html">Paul Cantrell</a></td>
  841. </tr>
  842. <tr>
  843. <th>License:</th>
  844. <td>GNU GPL 2.0</td>
  845. </tr>
  846. </table>
  847. </subsection>
  848. <subsection name="pack">
  849. <p>pack is a task to build the smallest possible JAR to link
  850. and run one or more classes.</p>
  851. <table>
  852. <tr>
  853. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  854. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  855. </tr>
  856. <tr>
  857. <th>URL:</th>
  858. <td><a href="http://sadun-util.sourceforge.net/pack.html">http://sadun-util.sourceforge.net/pack.html</a></td>
  859. </tr>
  860. <tr>
  861. <th>Contact:</th>
  862. <td><a href="mailto:cristiano@xtractor.com">Cristiano Sadun</a></td>
  863. </tr>
  864. <tr>
  865. <th>License:</th>
  866. <td>GNU Lesser General Public License</td>
  867. </tr>
  868. </table>
  869. </subsection>
  870. <subsection name="PMD">
  871. <p>PMD checks Java source code for unused variables,
  872. unnecessary object creation, etc</p>
  873. <table>
  874. <tr>
  875. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  876. <td>Ant 1.4 and higher</td>
  877. </tr>
  878. <tr>
  879. <th>URL:</th>
  880. <td><a href="http://pmd.sf.net/">http://pmd.sf.net/</a></td>
  881. </tr>
  882. <tr>
  883. <th>Contact:</th>
  884. <td><a href="mailto:tcopeland@apache.org">Tom Copeland</a></td>
  885. </tr>
  886. <tr>
  887. <th>License:</th>
  888. <td>Apache Software Foundation License</td>
  889. </tr>
  890. </table>
  891. </subsection>
  892. <subsection name="Purge">
  893. <p>Purge deletes all but the most recent few files from a fileset.
  894. For example: if you have generated files (logs, .ear, .war, .jar
  895. etc) accumulating in a directory, the purge task will allow you
  896. to delete the older files, keeping just the most recent ones.</p>
  897. <table>
  898. <tr>
  899. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  900. <td>Ant 1.4 or above</td>
  901. </tr>
  902. <tr>
  903. <th>URL:</th>
  904. <td><a href="http://www.dallaway.com/ant/">http://www.dallaway.com/ant/</a></td>
  905. </tr>
  906. <tr>
  907. <th>Contact:</th>
  908. <td><a href="mailto:purge@dallaway.com">Richard Dallaway</a></td>
  909. </tr>
  910. <tr>
  911. <th>License:</th>
  912. <td>LGPL</td>
  913. </tr>
  914. </table>
  915. </subsection>
  916. <subsection name="SerialVer">
  917. <p>SerialVer adds the Java serialver functionality to Apache
  918. Ant. This project adds Tasks and FilterReaders to get, to
  919. insert and to modify the serialVersionUID in the source code
  920. of a serializable class.</p>
  921. <table>
  922. <tr>
  923. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  924. <td>Ant 1.5.1 and later</td>
  925. </tr>
  926. <tr>
  927. <th>URL:</th>
  928. <td><a href="http://serialver.sourceforge.net/">http://serialver.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  929. </tr>
  930. <tr>
  931. <th>Contact:</th>
  932. <td><a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/serialver-development">developer mailing list</a></td>
  933. </tr>
  934. <tr>
  935. <th>License:</th>
  936. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  937. </tr>
  938. </table>
  939. </subsection>
  940. <subsection name="SmartAnalyzer">
  941. <p>Powerful analysis of dependencies between Java classes.
  942. Only affected classes will be recompiled and it can be used
  943. with any bytecode compiler.</p>
  944. <table>
  945. <tr>
  946. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  947. <td>Apache Ant version 1.5.1</td>
  948. </tr>
  949. <tr>
  950. <th>URL:</th>
  951. <td><a href="http://smartanalyzer.sourceforge.net/">http://smartanalyzer.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  952. </tr>
  953. <tr>
  954. <th>Contact:</th>
  955. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartanalyzer">support at sourceforge project page</a></td>
  956. </tr>
  957. <tr>
  958. <th>License:</th>
  959. <td>GNU General Public Licence (GPL)</td>
  960. </tr>
  961. </table>
  962. </subsection>
  963. <subsection name="Styler">
  964. <p>The styler task makes useful combinations of XSLT transformations
  965. easy to specify in an Ant build file. Like the built-in Ant task
  966. style, styler can apply a single transformation to a set of XML files.
  967. But it can also:</p>
  968. <ul>
  969. <li>handle multiple transformations, in parallel or pipelined.</li>
  970. <li>enable transformations that split or merge files</li>
  971. <li>process non-XML files, especially HTML (based on JTidy)</li>
  972. <li>apply non-XSLT transformation, especially "regular
  973. fragmentations"</li>
  974. <li>use any custom XMLReader or XMLFilter class to handle new file
  975. formats and transformation techniques.</li>
  976. </ul>
  977. <table>
  978. <tr>
  979. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  980. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  981. </tr>
  982. <tr>
  983. <th>URL:</th>
  984. <td><a href="http://www.langdale.com.au/styler/">http://www.langdale.com.au/styler/</a></td>
  985. </tr>
  986. <tr>
  987. <th>Contact:</th>
  988. <td><a href="mailto:adv@langdale.com.au">Arnold deVos</a></td>
  989. </tr>
  990. <tr>
  991. <th>License:</th>
  992. <td>LGPL</td>
  993. </tr>
  994. </table>
  995. </subsection>
  996. <subsection name="Syntax">
  997. <p>Transforms source files into HTML documents with syntax
  998. highlighting. It can handle a variety of source files
  999. including Java, HTML, C/C++, SQL, and Java properties. Colors
  1000. for elements are specified using cascading style sheets. The
  1001. output can be templated for easy integration with a site's
  1002. look and feel.</p>
  1003. <table>
  1004. <tr>
  1005. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1006. <td>Ant 1.5</td>
  1007. </tr>
  1008. <tr>
  1009. <th>URL:</th>
  1010. <td><a href="http://ostermiller.org/syntax/ant.html">http://ostermiller.org/syntax/ant.html</a></td>
  1011. </tr>
  1012. <tr>
  1013. <th>Contact:</th>
  1014. <td><a href="http://ostermiller.org/contact.pl?regarding=Syntax+Highlighting">Stephen Ostermiller</a></td>
  1015. </tr>
  1016. <tr>
  1017. <th>License:</th>
  1018. <td>GNU General Public License (GPL)</td>
  1019. </tr>
  1020. </table>
  1021. </subsection>
  1022. <subsection name="Tidy Imports (Tim)">
  1023. <p>Tim is a handy utility that can be executed on the command
  1024. line or via Ant that automatically formats your import
  1025. declarations. Tim is capable of removing unused imports,
  1026. expanding or collapsing imports and even organising them into
  1027. pre-determined groups.</p>
  1028. <table>
  1029. <tr>
  1030. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1031. <td>Ant 1.3 and later</td>
  1032. </tr>
  1033. <tr>
  1034. <th>URL:</th>
  1035. <td><a href="http://www.chive.com/tim.htm">http://www.chive.com/tim.htm</a></td>
  1036. </tr>
  1037. <tr>
  1038. <th>Contact:</th>
  1039. <td><a href="mailto:support@chive.com">support@chive.com</a></td>
  1040. </tr>
  1041. <tr>
  1042. <th>License:</th>
  1043. <td>Commercial</td>
  1044. </tr>
  1045. </table>
  1046. </subsection>
  1047. <subsection name="TiniAnt">
  1048. <p>TiniAnt is an Ant task to support building applications for
  1049. the <a href="http://www.ibutton.com/TINI/">TINI</a>.</p>
  1050. <table>
  1051. <tr>
  1052. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1053. <td>Ant 1.2 to 1.4.1</td>
  1054. </tr>
  1055. <tr>
  1056. <th>URL:</th>
  1057. <td><a href="http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/">http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1058. </tr>
  1059. <tr>
  1060. <th>Contact:</th>
  1061. <td><a href="mailto:kelly@ad1440.net">Sean Kelly</a></td>
  1062. </tr>
  1063. <tr>
  1064. <th>License:</th>
  1065. <td>BSD-like license</td>
  1066. </tr>
  1067. </table>
  1068. </subsection>
  1069. <subsection name="Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite">
  1070. <p>Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite allows
  1071. you to sign and package your applications into relocatable Web
  1072. Archives that you can drop into your web server for
  1073. single-click launching using Java Web Start or into single
  1074. Java Archive installers that serve up their content through a
  1075. built-in, multi-threaded, ultra light-weight web server.</p>
  1076. <table>
  1077. <tr>
  1078. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1079. <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
  1080. </tr>
  1081. <tr>
  1082. <th>URL:</th>
  1083. <td><a href="http://www.geocities.com/vamp201/ant.html">http://www.geocities.com/vamp201/ant.html</a></td>
  1084. </tr>
  1085. <tr>
  1086. <th>Contact:</th>
  1087. <td><a href="mailto:vamp201@yahoo.com">Gerald Bauer</a></td>
  1088. </tr>
  1089. <tr>
  1090. <th>License:</th>
  1091. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1092. </tr>
  1093. </table>
  1094. </subsection>
  1095. <subsection name="Version_Tool">
  1096. <p>A versioning tool for Ant.</p>
  1097. <table>
  1098. <tr>
  1099. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1100. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  1101. </tr>
  1102. <tr>
  1103. <th>URL:</th>
  1104. <td><a href="http://ant.ryangrier.com/">http://ant.ryangrier.com/</a></td>
  1105. </tr>
  1106. <tr>
  1107. <th>Contact:</th>
  1108. <td><a href="mailto:version_tool@ryangrier.com">version_tool@ryangrier.com</a></td>
  1109. </tr>
  1110. <tr>
  1111. <th>License:</th>
  1112. <td>BSD license</td>
  1113. </tr>
  1114. </table>
  1115. </subsection>
  1116. <subsection name="VPP">
  1117. <p>VPP provides general file preprocessing support based on
  1118. the Velocity Template Engine. The core funtionality is
  1119. provided as a filter for use with tasks that supports filter
  1120. chains. Also included are replacement tasks for &lt;copy&gt; and
  1121. &lt;javac&gt; that integrate support for preprocessing.</p>
  1122. <table>
  1123. <tr>
  1124. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1125. <td>1.5.1 and above</td>
  1126. </tr>
  1127. <tr>
  1128. <th>URL:</th>
  1129. <td><a href="http://vpp.sourceforge.net/">http://vpp.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1130. </tr>
  1131. <tr>
  1132. <th>Contact:</th>
  1133. <td><a href="mailto:vpp-user@lists.sourceforge.net">vpp-user@lists.sourceforge.net</a></td>
  1134. </tr>
  1135. <tr>
  1136. <th>License:</th>
  1137. <td>BSD license</td>
  1138. </tr>
  1139. </table>
  1140. </subsection>
  1141. <subsection name="WOProject">
  1142. <p>WOProject provides a set of tools to work with
  1143. <a href="http://webobjects.com/">WebObjects 5.1</a>
  1144. independent from platform and IDE. It significantly
  1145. improves developer productivity
  1146. and makes complex project structures more flexible compared to
  1147. traditional Makefile-based approach.
  1148. </p>
  1149. <table>
  1150. <tr>
  1151. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1152. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  1153. </tr>
  1154. <tr>
  1155. <th>URL:</th>
  1156. <td><a href="http://objectstyle.org/woproject/">http://objectstyle.org/woproject/</a></td>
  1157. </tr>
  1158. <tr>
  1159. <th>Contact:</th>
  1160. <td><a href="mailto:andrus@objectstyle.org">Andrus Adamchik</a></td>
  1161. </tr>
  1162. <tr>
  1163. <th>License:</th>
  1164. <td>Apache license</td>
  1165. </tr>
  1166. </table>
  1167. </subsection>
  1168. <subsection name="XDoclet">
  1169. <p>XDoclet is an extended Javadoc Doclet engine for use in Ant.
  1170. It lets you create custom Javadoc @tags and based on those tags
  1171. generates source code or other files (such as xml-ish deployment
  1172. descriptors). Templates and matching tasks are provided to generate
  1173. EJB and web application deployment descriptors.
  1174. </p>
  1175. <table>
  1176. <tr>
  1177. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1178. <td>Ant 1.4</td>
  1179. </tr>
  1180. <tr>
  1181. <th>URL:</th>
  1182. <td><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet/</a></td>
  1183. </tr>
  1184. <tr>
  1185. <th>License:</th>
  1186. <td>BSD license</td>
  1187. </tr>
  1188. </table>
  1189. </subsection>
  1190. <subsection name="XInclude">
  1191. <p><a href="http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/xia/index.html">XInclude</a> is
  1192. a W3C standardized vocabulary for including arbitrary text or XML
  1193. documents in other XML documents. This task perfomes the inclusion
  1194. using an existing XInclude implementation</p>
  1195. <table>
  1196. <tr>
  1197. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1198. <td>Ant 1.5.2</td>
  1199. </tr>
  1200. <tr>
  1201. <th>URL:</th>
  1202. <td>
  1203. <a href="http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/xia/index.html">http://www.jeckle.de/freeStuff/xia/index.html</a>
  1204. </td>
  1205. </tr>
  1206. <tr>
  1207. <th>Contact:</th>
  1208. <td><a href="mailto:mario@jeckle.de">mario@jeckle.de</a></td>
  1209. </tr>
  1210. <tr>
  1211. <th>License:</th>
  1212. <td>Lesser GNU Public License</td>
  1213. </tr>
  1214. </table>
  1215. </subsection>
  1216. <subsection name="XmlTask">
  1217. <p>XmlTask provides a simple means to modify XML documents
  1218. without having to learn XSLT. A simple path reference to an
  1219. XML node specifies the node you want to change, and how you
  1220. want to allow XML insertion and removal, or attribute
  1221. changes. The emphasis is on providing the simplest means to
  1222. perform common XML replacements</p>
  1223. <table>
  1224. <tr>
  1225. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1226. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  1227. </tr>
  1228. <tr>
  1229. <th>URL:</th>
  1230. <td><a href="http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask.html">http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask.html</a></td>
  1231. </tr>
  1232. <tr>
  1233. <th>Contact:</th>
  1234. <td><a href="mailto:xmltask@oopsconsultancy.com">xmltask@oopsconsultancy.com</a></td>
  1235. </tr>
  1236. <tr>
  1237. <th>License:</th>
  1238. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1239. </tr>
  1240. </table>
  1241. </subsection>
  1242. <subsection name="yGuard">
  1243. <p>yGuard is a free Java(TM) Bytecode Obfuscator Task that
  1244. needs no external script or project files. It can completely
  1245. be configured and run through the Ant build script. The task
  1246. supports multiple Jar files at once and makes use of
  1247. patternsets and regular expressions to specify elements, which
  1248. should be left unobfuscated. Additionally it can be used to
  1249. produce patches for obfuscated applications that have already
  1250. been deployed.</p>
  1251. <table>
  1252. <tr>
  1253. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1254. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  1255. </tr>
  1256. <tr>
  1257. <th>URL:</th>
  1258. <td><a href="http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yguard_about.htm">http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yguard_about.htm</a></td>
  1259. </tr>
  1260. <tr>
  1261. <th>Contact:</th>
  1262. <td><a href="mailto:yguard@yworks.com">yGuard@yWorks.com</a></td>
  1263. </tr>
  1264. <tr>
  1265. <th>License:</th>
  1266. <td>Library: LGPL, Task: Commercial</td>
  1267. </tr>
  1268. </table>
  1269. </subsection>
  1270. </section>
  1271. <section name="Compiler Implementations">
  1272. <subsection name="Generics (JSR14) Early-Access Compiler Adapter">
  1273. <p>This is an Ant compiler-adapter that allows you to use the
  1274. normal <code>&lt;javac&gt;</code> task plus Sun's early-access
  1275. compiler to compile Generics-enabled Java code. (This is only
  1276. necessary until JDK1.5 is released.)</p>
  1277. <table>
  1278. <tr>
  1279. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1280. <td>Ant 1.5 and later</td>
  1281. </tr>
  1282. <tr>
  1283. <th>URL:</th>
  1284. <td><a href="http://www.madbean.com/blog/3/">http://www.madbean.com/blog/3/</a></td>
  1285. </tr>
  1286. <tr>
  1287. <th>Contact:</th>
  1288. <td>Matt Quail &lt;spud[at]madbean[dot]com&gt;</td>
  1289. </tr>
  1290. <tr>
  1291. <th>License:</th>
  1292. <td>Public Domain</td>
  1293. </tr>
  1294. </table>
  1295. </subsection>
  1296. <subsection name="miniRMI &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;rmic&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; implementation">
  1297. <p>miniRMI is a freeware opensource library that serves as a
  1298. lightweight replacement for the original java.rmi packages and
  1299. is suitable especially for applets. Ant 1.4+
  1300. <code>&lt;rmic&gt;</code> adapter included.</p>
  1301. <table>
  1302. <tr>
  1303. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1304. <td>Ant 1.4 and later</td>
  1305. </tr>
  1306. <tr>
  1307. <th>URL:</th>
  1308. <td><a href="http://dione.zcu.cz/~toman40/miniRMI/">http://dione.zcu.cz/~toman40/miniRMI/</a></td>
  1309. </tr>
  1310. <tr>
  1311. <th>Contact:</th>
  1312. <td><a href="mailto:Petr.Toman@pinknet.cz">Petr Toman</a></td>
  1313. </tr>
  1314. <tr>
  1315. <th>License:</th>
  1316. <td>Gnu Lesser Public License</td>
  1317. </tr>
  1318. </table>
  1319. </subsection>
  1320. </section>
  1321. <section name="IDE and Editor Integration">
  1322. <subsection name="AntFarm">
  1323. <p>A plugin that integrates Ant into the jEdit editor.</p>
  1324. <table>
  1325. <tr>
  1326. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1327. <td>bundles Ant 1.5</td>
  1328. </tr>
  1329. <tr>
  1330. <th>URL:</th>
  1331. <td><a href="http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?AntFarm">http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?AntFarm</a></td>
  1332. </tr>
  1333. <tr>
  1334. <th>Contact:</th>
  1335. <td><a href="mailto:jedit-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">jEdit developers mailinglist</a></td>
  1336. </tr>
  1337. <tr>
  1338. <th>License:</th>
  1339. <td>Apache Software License</td>
  1340. </tr>
  1341. </table>
  1342. </subsection>
  1343. <subsection name="AntMan">
  1344. <p>An AddIn that integrates Ant with the JDeveloper IDE</p>
  1345. <table>
  1346. <tr>
  1347. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1348. <td>Ant 1.4.1</td>
  1349. </tr>
  1350. <tr>
  1351. <th>URL:</th>
  1352. <td><a href="http://www.erudra.com/antman/index.html">http://www.erudra.com/antman/index.html</a></td>
  1353. </tr>
  1354. <tr>
  1355. <th>Contact:</th>
  1356. <td><a href="mailto:ashok@erudra.com">Ashok Sridhar</a></td>
  1357. </tr>
  1358. <tr>
  1359. <th>License:</th>
  1360. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1361. </tr>
  1362. </table>
  1363. </subsection>
  1364. <subsection name="AntRunner">
  1365. <p>An OpenTool that integrates Ant into the JBuilder IDE.</p>
  1366. <table>
  1367. <tr>
  1368. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1369. <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
  1370. </tr>
  1371. <tr>
  1372. <th>URL:</th>
  1373. <td><a href="http://antrunner.sourceforge.net/">http://antrunner.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
  1374. </tr>
  1375. <tr>
  1376. <th>Contact:</th>
  1377. <td><a href="mailto:bogdoll@users.sourceforge.net">Dieter Bogdoll</a></td>
  1378. </tr>
  1379. <tr>
  1380. <th>License:</th>
  1381. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1382. </tr>
  1383. </table>
  1384. </subsection>
  1385. <subsection name="AntWork">
  1386. <p>A plugin that integrates Ant into the Jext editor.</p>
  1387. <table>
  1388. <tr>
  1389. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1390. <td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
  1391. </tr>
  1392. <tr>
  1393. <th>URL:</th>
  1394. <td><a href="ftp://jext.sourceforge.net/pub/jext/plugins/AntWork.zip">ftp://jext.sourceforge.net/pub/jext/plugins/AntWork.zip</a></td>
  1395. </tr>
  1396. <tr>
  1397. <th>Contact:</th>
  1398. <td><a href="mailto:KHartlage@t-online.de">Klaus Hartlage</a></td>
  1399. </tr>
  1400. <tr>
  1401. <th>License:</th>
  1402. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1403. </tr>
  1404. </table>
  1405. </subsection>
  1406. <subsection name="Eclipse">
  1407. <p>Eclipse is a universal tool platform with Ant integration.</p>
  1408. <table>
  1409. <tr>
  1410. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1411. <td>Ant 1.3 - 1.4.1</td>
  1412. </tr>
  1413. <tr>
  1414. <th>URL:</th>
  1415. <td><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">http://www.eclipse.org/</a></td>
  1416. </tr>
  1417. <tr>
  1418. <th>Contact:</th>
  1419. <td><a href="news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.tools">news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.tools</a></td>
  1420. </tr>
  1421. <tr>
  1422. <th>License:</th>
  1423. <td>Common Public License Version 1.0</td>
  1424. </tr>
  1425. </table>
  1426. </subsection>
  1427. <subsection name="Gel">
  1428. <p>Java IDE with support for Ant. Gel is a native Microsoft
  1429. Windows software.</p>
  1430. <table>
  1431. <tr>
  1432. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1433. <td>Ant 1.4 and above</td>
  1434. </tr>
  1435. <tr>
  1436. <th>URL:</th>
  1437. <td><a href="http://www.gexperts.com/gel.html">http://www.gexperts.com/gel.html</a></td>
  1438. </tr>
  1439. <tr>
  1440. <th>Contact:</th>
  1441. <td><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gelide/">Project Mailing List</a></td>
  1442. </tr>
  1443. <tr>
  1444. <th>License:</th>
  1445. <td>Freeware</td>
  1446. </tr>
  1447. </table>
  1448. </subsection>
  1449. <subsection name="HP RadPak">
  1450. <p>
  1451. RadPak comes with the (free) HP Bluestone HPAS J2EE server, and is primarily
  1452. a GUI tool for packaging and deploying java web and EJB applications
  1453. as WAR and EAR files. The tool is ant based, and can be used with
  1454. as a GUI for general ant development, providing form based entry
  1455. of task attributes, and an animated display of task
  1456. execution.
  1457. </p>
  1458. <table>
  1459. <tr>
  1460. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1461. <td>bundles Ant 1.3 and docs; adds a jar of extra tasks
  1462. to any existing ant installation under ANT_HOME</td>
  1463. </tr>
  1464. <tr>
  1465. <th>URL:</th>
  1466. <td><a href="http://www.bluestone.com/products/hp-as/">http://www.bluestone.com/products/hp-as/</a></td>
  1467. </tr>
  1468. <tr>
  1469. <th>License:</th>
  1470. <td>Proprietary but free to download</td>
  1471. </tr>
  1472. </table>
  1473. </subsection>
  1474. <subsection name="IntelliJ IDEA 2.0">
  1475. <p>Java IDE with refactoring support and Ant integration.</p>
  1476. <table>
  1477. <tr>
  1478. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1479. <td>bundles Ant 1.3</td>
  1480. </tr>
  1481. <tr>
  1482. <th>URL:</th>
  1483. <td><a href="http://www.intellij.com/idea/">http://www.intellij.com/idea/</a></td>
  1484. </tr>
  1485. <tr>
  1486. <th>Contact:</th>
  1487. <td><a href="mailto:support@intellij.com">support@intellij.com</a></td>
  1488. </tr>
  1489. <tr>
  1490. <th>License:</th>
  1491. <td>Commercial</td>
  1492. </tr>
  1493. </table>
  1494. </subsection>
  1495. <subsection name="JBuilder 8 Enterprise">
  1496. <p>JBuilder 8 Enterprise and &quot;Performance Bundle&quot;
  1497. come with built-in Ant support. JBuilder 8 Personal and SE
  1498. don't support Ant directly, but <a href="#AntRunner">an
  1499. OpenTool</a> is available for them.</p>
  1500. <table>
  1501. <tr>
  1502. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1503. <td>Bundles Ant 1.5.1</td>
  1504. </tr>
  1505. <tr>
  1506. <th>URL:</th>
  1507. <td><a href="http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/index.html">http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/index.html</a></td>
  1508. </tr>
  1509. <tr>
  1510. <th>Contact:</th>
  1511. <td><a href="mailto:customer_service@borland.com">customer_service@borland.com</a></td>
  1512. </tr>
  1513. <tr>
  1514. <th>License:</th>
  1515. <td>Commercial</td>
  1516. </tr>
  1517. </table>
  1518. </subsection>
  1519. <subsection name="JDE(E) 2.2.8">
  1520. <p>The Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDEE) supports
  1521. Apache Ant as one of three built-in ways to build your
  1522. applications.</p>
  1523. <table>
  1524. <tr>
  1525. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1526. <td>Ant 1.2 and later</td>
  1527. </tr>
  1528. <tr>
  1529. <th>URL:</th>
  1530. <td><a href="http://jde.sunsite.dk/">http://jde.sunsite.dk/</a></td>
  1531. </tr>
  1532. <tr>
  1533. <th>Contact:</th>
  1534. <td><a href="mailto:jde-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk">JDEE Mailing list.</a></td>
  1535. </tr>
  1536. <tr>
  1537. <th>License:</th>
  1538. <td>GNU General Public License</td>
  1539. </tr>
  1540. </table>
  1541. </subsection>
  1542. <subsection name="NetBeans / Sun ONE Studio">
  1543. <p>A module that integrates Ant into the NetBeans or Sun ONE Studio (formerly Forte for Java) IDEs.</p>
  1544. <table>
  1545. <tr>
  1546. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1547. <td>bundles Ant 1.5.1</td>
  1548. </tr>
  1549. <tr>
  1550. <th>URL:</th>
  1551. <td><a href="http://ant.netbeans.org/">http://ant.netbeans.org/</a></td>
  1552. </tr>
  1553. <tr>
  1554. <th>Contact:</th>
  1555. <td><a href="mailto:nbdev@netbeans.org">nbdev@netbeans.org</a></td>
  1556. </tr>
  1557. <tr>
  1558. <th>License:</th>
  1559. <td>Sun Public License</td>
  1560. </tr>
  1561. </table>
  1562. </subsection>
  1563. <subsection name="Oracle9i JDeveloper">
  1564. <p>Java IDE with support for Ant.</p>
  1565. <table>
  1566. <tr>
  1567. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1568. <td>Ant 1.5.1</td>
  1569. </tr>
  1570. <tr>
  1571. <th>URL:</th>
  1572. <td><a href="http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/">http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/</a></td>
  1573. </tr>
  1574. <tr>
  1575. <th>Contact:</th>
  1576. <td><a href="mailto:jdeveloperbeta_us@oracle.com">jdeveloperbeta_us@oracle.com</a></td>
  1577. </tr>
  1578. <tr>
  1579. <th>License:</th>
  1580. <td>Commercial</td>
  1581. </tr>
  1582. </table>
  1583. </subsection>
  1584. <subsection name="WebSphere Studio Application Developer">
  1585. <p>WSAD features Ant integrate by virtue of being built on the Eclipse tools platform.</p>
  1586. <table>
  1587. <tr>
  1588. <th>Compatibility:</th>
  1589. <td>bundles Ant 1.4.1</td>
  1590. </tr>
  1591. <tr>
  1592. <th>Article:</th>
  1593. <td><a href="http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/library/techarticles/0203_searle/searle1.html">Ant Integration Part1</a></td>
  1594. </tr>
  1595. <tr>
  1596. <th>License:</th>
  1597. <td>Commercial</td>
  1598. </tr>
  1599. </table>
  1600. </subsection>
  1601. </section>
  1602. </body>
  1603. </document>