<blockquote>Now that Ivy 1.0 is out, I'd strongly encourage every Java developer to pull it down and consider using it to manage dependencies in their Ant builds. As far as I'm concerned, it's a complete no-brainer. <a href="http://blog.exis.com/colin/archives/2005/04/29/decision-to-use-ivy-is-a-no-brainer/">Read more</a></blockquote> <div style="text-align:right;">Colin Sampaleanu, core developer of <a href="http://www.springframework.org/">Spring</a></div> <br/> <blockquote>Ivy's a great library... I've just gone through and implemented a multi-module build using Ivy for full transitive dependency management... <a href="http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=33574">Read more</a></blockquote> <div style="text-align:right;">Jason Careira, <a href="http://www.opensymphony.com/webwork/">webwork</a> and <a href="http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/">xwork</a> project leader</div><br/> <br/> <blockquote>Currently, our application uses more than 40 3rdparty jars. [...] With Ivy, I now have a full accounting of what libraries our project relies on directly. [...] We now have clear understanding of our dependency tree. <a href="http://houseofhaug.net/blog/archives/2005/04/13/maven-uninstall/">Read more</a></blockquote> <div style="text-align:right;">Scott Haug, core developer of <a href="http://www.jobster.com/">jobster.com</a><br/></div> <br/> <blockquote>After spending 10 minutes seeing the demonstrations, Ivy passed the test. [...] In addition, the folks on the Ivy forums were absolutely amazing with support, even when I had problems with my basic configuration file that was completely my fault. <a href="http://jroller.com/page/webwork2live?anchor=maven_out_ant_ivy_in">Read more</a></blockquote> <div style="text-align:right;">Matthew Porter, co-founder of Metissian and Contegix, author of <a href="http://sourcebeat.com/TitleAction.do;jsessionid=4B2266B92DCB32C9EE9B5FE1415568D6?id=6">WebWork Live</a><br/>