The Avalon project represents over 100 versioned artifacts with many build, test and runtime interdependencies. Across this codebase with have a single container application, a Eclipse plugin, a number of plugable platform facilities, plugins that load plugins, etc. resulting in a generally complex build cycle. Following experiments with Ant and Maven, the Avalon team extended the concept of a POM (Project Object Model) with centralized version and dependency management - and combined this model with the Ant platform to provide a powerful, fast and robust build system code-named Magic.
In addition to the Magic build solution, Avalon has developed plugins supporting the Ant and Maven environments.
