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AndroMDA
AndroMDA is a code generator tool that follows the Model
Driven Architecture (MDA) paradigm. It takes a UML model from
a CASE-tool and generates classes and deployable components
(J2EE or other) specific for your application
architecture.
Ant Commander
Ant Commander is a free file manager written in Java/Swing and
based on Apache Ant and Apache Commons-vfs. All the file operations are
executed by Ant tasks.
Ant Commander can also run as Applet, so you don't need to install Ant
locally to run your Ant tasks.
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.
Antelope
A GUI for running Ant and editing build files, can run as
stand-alone or as a plugin to jEdit. In addition to running
targets, Antelope can generate performance statistics and can
trace/display a target's execution path without actually
executing the target.
Includes several additional tasks: Assert, If/Else,
Try/Catch/Finally, Switch, Variable, Stopwatch, Limit, Math,
Post, SSH, SCP, AntFetch, AntCallBack.
Antigen
Antigen (Ant Installer Generator) is a tool to take an Ant build script, combine it with a GUI
and wrap it up as an executable jar file. Its main use is for creating graphical, ant-based installers.
AntInstaller
Builds MSI style installers (with command line option)
using Ant as Back end. UI developed by writing an XML install
descriptor. Runtime launched from scripts or an all inclusive
Jar.
Antlion
The Antlion Project adds value to Ant build scripts by providing
tasks which centralizes the library dependencies, and enables
projects to define dependencies upon other projects.
External dependencies may be loaded from a custom local
repository or Maven-like remote repositories. Antlion handles
the generation of properties, filesets, and paths.
Inter-project dependencies allow for building the other
project's files if they aren't already built.
Antworks
The antworks project is a set of tools and standardized targets that
greatly simplifies using ant in your project.
The driver behind antworks is Importer. Importer is an extension to the
ant import task that will download and
cache an ant build.xml file and it's associated resources called
antlets. Antlets are available for Java compiling
and packaging, JUnit, Forrest, J2EE and
more.
See the Getting Started
guide for more information.
BuildMonkey
BuildMonkey is a Web-based automated build dashboard, with upload
capability and google web search. It schedules the running of Ant
build scripts - checking sources out of CM - and makes the results
available centrally.
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.
Flaka
The goal of Flaka is to simplify writing build scripts using
- Regular control structures (
when, for, switch, ..)
- Exception handling
- An Expression Language which in turn provdes:
- access to underlying data objects
- untyped variables in addition to Ant properties
- powerfull expressions like
cond ? then : else
Checkout the
manual's overview chapter about the feature Flaka provides. Have especially a look at the section describing the expression language.
Invicta
Invicta is a build management tool. Using simple project definition files,
it generates powerful build scripts (such as ANT) while hiding their
complexity. Invicta is a modular framework that allows developing additional
components and output types.
luntbuild
Luntbuild is an open source build automation and management
tool based on Apache Ant. Builds are setup through concepts of
projects, views, schedules, modules, etc. All configurations
and monitoring tasks is performed from a clean web
interface. It supports schedules builds, force builds,
rebuilds, clean build, increment build, etc.
Hint: The URL provided us by the luntbuild team is no longer
available as JavaForge has been shut down permanently on 31 March 2016.
We have found some "luntbuild"s available on
ModelAnt
ModelAnt tool is an extension of Apache Ant for practical managing models and meta-models
and generation of code/artifacts. ModelAnt uses industry standard technologies and Java APIs as
JMI 1.0, MOF 1.4, XMI 1.1 / 1.2, UML 1.3 though Ant scripting front-end, following the
paradigm of Model Driven Architecture (MDA).
ModelAnt also provides tasks to reverse engineer to UML 1.3 databases, Java sources, XML schemas,
Ant scrits. Additionally provided are:
- A demo project to generae POJO classes. It could be customized or extended to
generate any other text artifacts.
- A task to generate documentation of Ant scripts and antlib files.
- A task to convert UML 1.3 models to UML 1.4, suitable for import in ArgoUml.
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.
Parabuild
Parabuild is an automated multiplatform build management server.
Parabuild helps software teams and organizations of all sizes reduce
risks of project failures and increase productivity by providing provides
automatic continuous integration builds and stable scheduled builds.
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.
Note: As the Sourceforge project site
shows, the last update was on Feb 09 2002. (jhm)
WebTest
WebTest is a free open source tool for automated testing of web applications.
It is a set of powerful Ant tasks allowing to call web pages, mimic user actions
(clicking links, filling forms, ...) and verify the results.
The generated reports give comprehensive information on success and failure of the test steps.
XML Publication
XML Publication is a set of tools to generate Web pages
from desktop documents or other structured documents using
XSLT and Ant.
yEd
yEd is a freeware multi-purpose graph and diagram editor
that runs on the Java 2 platform. It provides an import filter
for Ant build scripts that makes it possible to conveniently
display and browse the dependencies between the different targets
of the build file. This is especially useful for debugging and
understanding large build files.