This page lists external resources for Ant: tasks, IDE integration tools, loggers, you name it. If you've written something that should be included, please post all relevant information to one of the mailing lists.

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AJC

AspectJ is an aspect-oriented extension to Java. This task compiles a source tree using the AspectJ compiler -- AJC. Compatibility: Ant 1.3 URL: http://aspectj.org/dl Contact: support@aspectj.org License: Apache Software License

Anakia

Actually, Anakia is more than just an Ant task, it is a an XML transformation tool based on JDOM, Velocity and Ant. Compatibility: Ant 1.2 and 1.3 URL: http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html Contact: Velocity mailing lists License: Apache Software License

Checkstyle

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. Its purpose is to automate the process of checking Java code, and to spare humans of this boring (but important) task. Checkstyle can be run via an ANT task or a command line utility. Compatibility: Ant 1.2 and 1.3 URL: http://www.puppycrawl.com/checkstyle Contact: Oliver Burn License: GNU General Public License

Configure

Recursive build support (call ant on every package level, and only build files in that package or in that package and everything below) with seperation of source and output. The task generates build files in any subdirectory (except for CVS-directories) for you. Only place one build.xml file in the top and call target 'setup' or 'rescan'. Compatibility: Ant 1.2 and 1.3 URL: http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/ Contact: M.J.P. van Leeuwen License: License derived from Apache Software License

J2ME Ant Tasks

There are two different sets of tasks to help build Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) applications. This set supports CLDC and the K Virtual Machine (KVM): Compatibility: Ant 1.3 URL: http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/ Contact: Dave Dribin License: Apache Software License And this set works with the J2ME Wireless Toolkit and MIDP for PalmOS: Compatibility: Ant 1.3 URL: http://www.stampysoft.com/ant/ Contact: Josh Eckels License: MIT License

TiniAnt

TiniAnt is an Ant task to support building applications for the TINI. Compatibility: Ant 1.2 and 1.3 URL: http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/ Contact: Sean Kelly License: BSD-like license

Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite

Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite allows you to sign and package your applications into relocatable Web Archives that you can drop into your web server for single-click launching using Java Web Start or into single Java Archive installers that serve up their content through a built-in, multi-threaded, ultra light-weight web server. Compatibility: Ant 1.2 and 1.3 URL: http://www.geocities.com/vamp201/ant.html Contact: Gerald Bauer License: GNU General Public License

AntFarm

A plugin that integrates Ant into the jEdit editor. Compatibility: bundles Ant 1.3 URL: http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/AntFarm Contact: jEdit developers mailinglist License: Apache Software License

AntRunner

An OpenTool that integrates Ant into the JBuilder IDE. Compatibility: Ant 1.2 and 1.3 URL: http://www.dieter-bogdoll.de/java/AntRunner/ Contact: Dieter Bogdoll License: GNU General Public License

AntWork

A plugin that integrates Ant into the Jext editor. Compatibility: Ant 1.2 and 1.3 URL: ftp://jext.sourceforge.net/pub/jext/plugins/AntWork.zip Contact: Klaus Hartlage License: GNU General Public License

IntelliJ IDEA 2.0

Java IDE with refactoring support and Ant integration. Compatibility: bundles Ant 1.3 URL: http://www.intellij.com/idea/ Contact: support@intellij.com License: Commercial

NetBeans / Forte for Java

A module that integrates Ant into the NetBeans or Forte for Java IDEs. Compatibility: bundles Ant 1.3 URL: http://ant.netbeans.org/ Contact: nbdev@netbeans.org License: Sun Public License

CruiseControl

CruiseControl is a tool for setting up a continuous build process. CruiseControl provides an Ant wrapper and a set of tasks to automate the checkout/build/test cycle. CruiseControl also comes bundled with a servlet for viewing the status of the current build, as well as previous build results. Compatibility: Ant 1.2 and 1.3 URL: http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/ Contact: Project Mailing Lists and Administrators License: Release 1.0 has been licensed under the GNU General Public License. Starting with release 1.1 the license has been changed to a BSD-like license.