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AntContrib

The Ant-Contrib project is a collection of user supplied task (like an <if> task) and a development playground for experimental tasks like a C/C++ compilation task for different compilers. Compatibility: 1.4.1 and above URL: http://sourcefoge.net/projects/ant-contrib/ Contact: project mailing list License: Apache Software Foundation license

AntDoc

AntDoc is a tool that generates HTML documentation from Ant buildfiles; the generated HTML is inspired from what javadoc yields. It also offers a simple Ant target launcher named AntDoc GUI. Ant targets may be launched from the generated AntDoc HTML pages. AntDoc can be run via an Ant task, AntDoc GUI can be run via an Ant task, or via a JVM launch. Compatibility: Ant 1.4.1 and higher URL: http://mapage.noos.fr/antdoc Contact: Edouard Mercier License: At the moment, no license is being attached to the tool.

AntHill

Anthill is a build tool that promotes a controlled build process by ensuring that every build reflects the source repository contents and tagging the repository with a unique build number after every build. Anthill also encourages the sharing of knowledge within an organization by automatically updating a project intranet site with artifacts from the latest build. Compatibility: bundles Ant 1.3, is compatible with Ant 1.3 to 1.4.1 URL: http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/ Contact: Maciej Zawadzki License: Mozilla-like 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 higher 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.

Krysalis Centipede

Krysalis Centipede is a template for a software module; gives you build with Ant and Site+Documentation with Apache Cocoon. Centipede is a starter project, empty in many respects, but has a decent and standardized Ant build file, and some xdocs that render to HTML using Cocoon. A developer would take Centipede and use it to start development. After starting, the build file would evolve as the developer see fit and move away from the Centipede starting point. Subsequent releases of Centipede will address the issues found using it, and evolve on user requests-issues. Compatibility: 1.4.1 URL: http://krysalis.org/centipede/ Contact: mailing lists License: The Krysalis Patchy Software License, based on and fully compatible with the Apache Software Foundation license

NAnt

NAnt is a .NET based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make's wrinkles. In practice it's a lot like Ant. Compatibility: compatible in spirit. URL: http://nant.sourceforge.net/ Contact: project mailing list License: GNU General Public License

Rant

Rant stands for Remote Ant. It is a distributed build system that allows an Ant build file to launch builds on other systems and receive exceptions should they occur. Compatibility: Ant 1.4 URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/remoteant/ Contact: Chris Nelson License: MIT License

XML Publication

XML Publication is a set of tools to generate Web pages from desktop documents or other structured documents using XSLT and Ant. Compatibility: Ant 1.4 URL: http://XMLpublication.org/ Contact: Jean-Marc Vanel License: GNU General Public License.