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

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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 later 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 to 1.4.1 URL: http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/ Contact: Oliver Burn License: Starting with release 2.0 the license is the GNU Lesser General Public License. Prior releases were under the GNU General Public License.

CleanImports

Removes unneeded imports. Formats your import sections. Flags ambiguous imports. Compatibility: Ant 1.3 URL: http://www.euronet.nl/users/tomb/cleanImports/index.html Contact: Tom Brus License: Apache Software License

Clover

Clover is an Ant-based Code Coverage tool. It can be used seamlessly with Ant-based projects. It provides method, statement, and branch coverage analysis, and has rich reporting in XML, HTML or via a Swing GUI. Compatibility: Ant 1.4.1 or greater URL: http://www.thecortex.net/clover Contact: clover-support@cortexebusiness.com.au License: Commercial, free licenses available for open source projects.

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

CVSGrab

A little CVS client that can be useful when people are behind corporate firewall that blocks any cvs communications. It uses the ViewCVS web interface to access the CVS repository via standard http, and downloads all the files present in it. It works from the command line or as an Ant task. Compatibility: Ant 1.3 or higher URL: http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net/ Contact: CVSGrab user mailing list License: LGPL

Doxygen task

Ant task for running the Doxygen documentation system. Compatibility: Ant 1.1 and later URL: http://www.bgw.org/projects/java/ant/ Contact: Kyle R. Burton License: Apache Software Foundation License

GenJar

Builds a JAR file based on class dependencies rather than simply the contents of a directory Compatibility: Ant 1.4 alpha (built after 2001/08/04) and later URL: http://www.riggshill.com/projects/genjar/ Contact: John Kohler License: Apache Software Foundation License

Importscrubber

Removes unnecessary import statements from a Java source code file. Compatibility: Ant 1.3 URL: http://importscrubber.sourceforge.net/ Contact: Tom Copeland License: LGPL

IsDirValidator

Checks whether a given directory structure conforms to certain rules that are defined via nested elements of the task. Compatibility: Ant 1.4 URL: http://isvalidator.sourceforge.net/en/isDirValidator.htm Contact: Iñigo Serrano License: GNU General Public License

Jalopy

An Ant Plug-in for the Java Source Code Formatter Jalopy. Compatibility: Ant 1.4 (or higher) URL: http://jalopy.sourceforge.net Contact: http://jalopy.sf.net/contact.html License: Starting with release 1.0 Beta 6 the license is the BSD License. Prior releases were under the GNU General Public License.

Javamake

A task to compile Java sources and manage class file dependencies. Functionality is equivalent to that of standard Javac and Depend tasks combined, with improved dependency checking. Compatibility: Ant 1.4.1 URL: http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html Contact: Mikhail Dmitriev License: BSD-like 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

javarec

Ant tasks that generate record classes for VisualAge for Java from Cobol copy books. Compatibility: Ant 1.4 URL: http://glezen.org/javarec/ Contact: Paul Glezen License: Apache Software License

Styler

The styler task makes useful combinations of XSLT transformations easy to specify in an Ant build file. Like the built-in Ant task style, styler can apply a single transformation to a set of XML files. But it can also: handle multiple transformations, in parallel or pipelined. enable transformations that split or merge files process non-XML files, especially HTML (based on JTidy) apply non-XSLT transformation, especially "regular fragmentations" use any custom XMLReader or XMLFilter class to handle new file formats and transformation techniques. Compatibility: Ant 1.4 URL: http://www.langdale.com.au/styler/ Contact: Arnold deVos License: LGPL

Tidy Imports (Tim)

Tim is a handy utility that can be executed on the command line or via Ant that automatically formats your import declarations. Tim is capable of removing unused imports, expanding or collapsing imports and even organising them into pre-determined groups. Compatibility: Ant 1.3 and later URL: http://www.chive.com/tim.htm Contact: support@chive.com License: Commercial

TiniAnt

TiniAnt is an Ant task to support building applications for the TINI. Compatibility: Ant 1.2 to 1.4.1 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

WOProject

WOProject provides a set of tools to work with WebObjects 5.1 independent from platform and IDE. It significantly improves developer productivity and makes complex project structures more flexible compared to traditional Makefile-based approach. Compatibility: Ant 1.4 URL: http://objectstyle.org/woproject/ Contact: Andrus Adamchik License: Apache license

XDoclet

XDoclet is an extended Javadoc Doclet engine for use in Ant. It lets you create custom Javadoc @tags and based on those tags generates source code or other files (such as xml-ish deployment descriptors). Templates and matching tasks are provided to generate EJB and web application deployment descriptors. Compatibility: Ant 1.4 URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet/ License: BSD license

XmlTask

XmlTask provides a simple means to modify XML documents without having to learn XSLT. A simple path reference to an XML node specifies the node you want to change, and how you want to allow XML insertion and removal, or attribute changes. The emphasis is on providing the simplest means to perform common XML replacements Compatibility: Ant 1.4 and later URL: http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask.html Contact: xmltask@oopsconsultancy.com License: GNU General Public License

Jing Task

Validates XML files against the RELAX NG alternative to XML Schema. The Jing task for Ant allows you to efficiently validate multiple files against multiple RELAX NG patterns and integrate RELAX NG validation with other XML processing. Compatibility: Ant 1.4 and later URL: http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing-ant.html License: BSD-like

miniRMI <rmic> implementation

miniRMI is a freeware opensource library that serves as a lightweight replacement for the original java.rmi packages and is suitable especially for applets. Ant 1.4+ <rmic> adapter included. Compatibility: Ant 1.4 and later URL: http://dione.zcu.cz/~toman40/miniRMI/ Contact: Petr Toman License: Gnu Lesser 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

AntMan

An AddIn that integrates Ant with the JDeveloper IDE Compatibility: Ant 1.4.1 URL: http://www.erudra.com/antman/index.html Contact: Ashok Sridhar License: GNU General Public 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

Eclipse

Eclipse is a universal tool platform with Ant integration. Compatibility: Ant 1.3 - 1.4.1 URL: http://www.eclipse.org Contact: news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.tools License: Common Public License Version 1.0

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

JDE(E) 2.2.8

The Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDEE) supports Apache Ant as one of three built-in ways to build your applications. Compatibility: Ant 1.2 and later URL: http://jde.sunsite.dk/ Contact: JDEE Mailing list. License: GNU General Public License

NetBeans / Forte for Java

A module that integrates Ant into the NetBeans or Forte for Java IDEs. Compatibility: bundles Ant 1.4.1 URL: http://ant.netbeans.org/ Contact: nbdev@netbeans.org License: Sun Public License

HP RadPak

RadPak comes with the (free) HP Bluestone HPAS J2EE server, and is primarily a GUI tool for packaging and deploying java web and EJB applications as WAR and EAR files. The tool is ant based, and can be used with as a GUI for general ant development, providing form based entry of task attributes, and an animated display of task execution. Compatibility: bundles Ant 1.3 and docs; adds a jar of extra tasks to any existing ant installation under ANT_HOME URL: http://www.bluestone.com/products/hp-as/ License: Proprietary but free to download

WebSphere Studio Application Developer

WSAD features Ant integrate by virtue of being built on the Eclipse tools platform. Compatibility: bundles Ant 1.4.1 Article: Ant Integration Part1 License: Commercial