Build Systems

Ant
Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes. It uses XML to describe the build process and its dependencies. Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes. It uses XML to describe the build process and its dependencies.

Maven
Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on the concept of a project object model (POM) in that all the artifacts produced by Maven are a result of consulting a well defined model for your project. Builds, documentation, source metrics, and source cross-references are all controlled by your POM. Look here to see the full list of Mavens features. Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on the concept of a project object model (POM) in that all the artifacts produced by Maven are a result of consulting a well defined model for your project. Builds, documentation, source metrics, and source cross-references are all controlled by your POM. Look here to see the full list of Mavens features.

Continuum
Continuum is an easy-to-use, Continous Integration server for building Java-based projects, with built-in support for Maven 2, Maven 1, Ant and Shell Scripts. Continuum is an easy-to-use, Continous Integration server for building Java-based projects, with built-in support for Maven 2, Maven 1, Ant and Shell Scripts.

Ivy
Ivy is a free java based dependency manager, with powerful features such as transitive dependencies, ant integration, maven repository compatibility, continuous integration, html reports and many more. Ivy is a free java based dependency manager, with powerful features such as transitive dependencies, ant integration, maven repository compatibility, continuous integration, html reports and many more.

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. 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.

Cruise Control
CruiseControl is a framework for a continuous build process. It includes, but is not limited to, plugins for email notification, Ant, and various source control tools. A web interface is provided to view the details of the current and previous builds. CruiseControl is a framework for a continuous build process. It includes, but is not limited to, plugins for email notification, Ant, and various source control tools. A web interface is provided to view the details of the current and previous builds.

Hudson
Hudson monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Among those things, current Hudson focuses on the following two jobs: 1. Building/testing software projects continuously, just like CruiseControl or DamageControl. In a nutshell, Hudson provides an easy-to-use so-called continuous integration system, making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. The automated, continoues build increases the productivity. 2. Monitoring executions of externally-run jobs, such as cron jobs and procmail jobs, even those that are run on a remote machine. For example, with cron, all you receive is regular e-mails that capture the output, and it is up to you to look at them diligently and notice when it broke. Hudson keeps those outputs and makes it easy for you to notice when something is wrong. Hudson monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Among those things, current Hudson focuses on the following two jobs: 1. Building/testing software projects continuously, just like CruiseControl or DamageControl. In a nutshell, Hudson provides an easy-to-use so-called continuous integration system, making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. The automated, continoues build increases the productivity. 2. Monitoring executions of externally-run jobs, such as cron jobs and procmail jobs, even those that are run on a remote machine. For example, with cron, all you receive is regular e-mails that capture the output, and it is up to you to look at them diligently and notice when it broke. Hudson keeps those outputs and makes it easy for you to notice when something is wrong.

AntHill OS
Anthill OS is a Build Management Server. Anthill allows multiple users to work together and consistently access only the latest build, complete with changes from all programmers working on a project. Anthill performs a checkout from the source repository of the latest version of a project before every build and tags the repository with a unique build number. Anthill then updates a project intranet site with artifacts from the latest build. Anthill OS is a Build Management Server. Anthill allows multiple users to work together and consistently access only the latest build, complete with changes from all programmers working on a project. Anthill performs a checkout from the source repository of the latest version of a project before every build and tags the repository with a unique build number. Anthill then updates a project intranet site with artifacts from the latest build.

GenJar
GenJar is a specialized Ant task that builds jar files based on class dependencies rather than simply the contents of a directory. GenJar is a specialized Ant task that builds jar files based on class dependencies rather than simply the contents of a directory.

Pebble
Pebble is a lightweight, open source, blogger that is written as a web application to run inside J2EE web containers using standards-based technologies such as JSP, servlets, filters, JSP custom tags, JSTL and JAXP. Running as a web application in any JSP 1.2/Servlet 2.3 compatible web container, Pebble maintains blog entries as XML files and serves up blog content dynamically. All maintenance of blog entries, blog properties, themes and so on is performed through your web browser, negating the need to telnet/ssh to the host and making Pebble ideal for anybody who is constantly on the move, or accesses the Internet through a firewall/proxy server. Pebble is a lightweight, open source, blogger that is written as a web application to run inside J2EE web containers using standards-based technologies such as JSP, servlets, filters, JSP custom tags, JSTL and JAXP. Running as a web application in any JSP 1.2/Servlet 2.3 compatible web container, Pebble maintains blog entries as XML files and serves up blog content dynamically. All maintenance of blog entries, blog properties, themes and so on is performed through your web browser, negating the need to telnet/ssh to the host and making Pebble ideal for anybody who is constantly on the move, or accesses the Internet through a firewall/proxy server.

Invicta
Invicta is an open-source build management tool. Using simple project definition files, it generates powerful build scripts (Apache ANTs), while hiding their complexity. Invicta is an open-source build management tool. Using simple project definition files, it generates powerful build scripts (Apache ANTs), while hiding their complexity.

Savant
Savant is an extension to the popular ant build system from the Apache group. Savant is an extension to the popular ant build system from the Apache group.

Proximity
Proximity (px-core) is a generic fetch-and-cache engine with various extra capabilities like indexing. The Px-Core module is driven by Maven bindings (px-core-maven) to implement a Maven Proxy application behaviour. Proximity is in function somewhere between http-proxy and proactive-mirror. Proximity is not HTTP Proxy. One of its primary use is as Java web application to serve as maven proxy on our companys intranet. As for reducing outgoing traffic (caching central and other maven repos), aggregating more repositories (reducing project config) with acting as one logical repository and for publishing in-house and other external maven artifacts which are not uploadable to ibiblio (like commercial projects, J2EE Jars, etc...). Proximity (px-core) is a generic fetch-and-cache engine with various extra capabilities like indexing. The Px-Core module is driven by Maven bindings (px-core-maven) to implement a Maven Proxy application behaviour. Proximity is in function somewhere between http-proxy and proactive-mirror. Proximity is not HTTP Proxy. One of its primary use is as Java web application to serve as maven proxy on our companys intranet. As for reducing outgoing traffic (caching central and other maven repos), aggregating more repositories (reducing project config) with acting as one logical repository and for publishing in-house and other external maven artifacts which are not uploadable to ibiblio (like commercial projects, J2EE Jars, etc...).

Jar Jar Links
Jar Jar Links is a utility that makes it easy to repackage Java libraries and embed them into your own distribution. This is useful for two reasons: Jar Jar Links is a utility that makes it easy to repackage Java libraries and embed them into your own distribution. This is useful for two reasons: * You can easily ship a single jar file with no external dependencies. * You can avoid problems where your library depends on a specific version of a library, which may conflict with the dependencies of another library.

JMK
This application is based on the make utility which is part of most Unix systems, but is designed to support the task of writing platform independe This application is based on the make utility which is part of most Unix systems, but is designed to support the task of writing platform independe

LuntBuild
LuntBuild is a powerful build automation and management tool. Continuous integration or daily build can be easily setup through a clean web interface. Generated builds are well managed through functions such as search, categorization, promotion, patching, deletion, etc. It also acts as a central build artifacts download area for your whole team. LuntBuild is a powerful build automation and management tool. Continuous integration or daily build can be easily setup through a clean web interface. Generated builds are well managed through functions such as search, categorization, promotion, patching, deletion, etc. It also acts as a central build artifacts download area for your whole team.

Antmod
Antmod is a build management, release management, and repository management tool. Its implementation is an Ant-based extensible engine for retrieving, versioning, building, and deploying code to and from Subversion or CVS. It standardizes build files for Java projects and provides build plugins for various tasks. It also standardizes tagging and branching for both CVS and Subversion, and its module and repository management can also be used for non-Java projects. It greatly speeds up Java software development, promotes reuse of Java software, and standardizes the build-test- release cycle. Antmod is a build management, release management, and repository management tool. Its implementation is an Ant-based extensible engine for retrieving, versioning, building, and deploying code to and from Subversion or CVS. It standardizes build files for Java projects and provides build plugins for various tasks. It also standardizes tagging and branching for both CVS and Subversion, and its module and repository management can also be used for non-Java projects. It greatly speeds up Java software development, promotes reuse of Java software, and standardizes the build-test- release cycle.

Schmant
Schmant is a build tool for building software artifacts. It uses the scripting support in Java 6 for running build scripts, so build scripts can be written in any supported script language. Schmant provides a set of tasks for common build script tasks, such as compiling Java code, building JAR files, exporting code from Subversion repositories and performing text substitution in files. Schmant aims to be feature-compatible with and much easier to use than Apache Ant. Schmant is a build tool for building software artifacts. It uses the scripting support in Java 6 for running build scripts, so build scripts can be written in any supported script language. Schmant provides a set of tasks for common build script tasks, such as compiling Java code, building JAR files, exporting code from Subversion repositories and performing text substitution in files. Schmant aims to be feature-compatible with and much easier to use than Apache Ant.

JAM
JAM consists of a collection of Ant scripts designed to perform common Java/J2EE build tasks such as compilation, packaging, testing, deployment and J2EE application server control. JAM combines MavenÂ’s high-level project description and repository features (via a Maven-to-Ant bridge) with the low-level capabilities of Ant. By assembling JAM modules, one is able to quickly create sophisticated IDE-independent build scripts. JAM supports various J2EE application servers, XDoclet invocation, JUnit unit testing, Apache Cactus integration testing, UML-based code generation and other technologies. JAM consists of a collection of Ant scripts designed to perform common Java/J2EE build tasks such as compilation, packaging, testing, deployment and J2EE application server control. JAM combines MavenÂ’s high-level project description and repository features (via a Maven-to-Ant bridge) with the low-level capabilities of Ant. By assembling JAM modules, one is able to quickly create sophisticated IDE-independent build scripts. JAM supports various J2EE application servers, XDoclet invocation, JUnit unit testing, Apache Cactus integration testing, UML-based code generation and other technologies.

Bee
Bee is a Java-based build tool. Bee inherited some principles of Make. Bee provides more procedure languages constructions, so generally can be used for script programming. Its highly extendable and base DTD can be easily changed, so it allows to create own dialects of Bee. Bee is a Java-based build tool. Bee inherited some principles of Make. Bee provides more procedure languages constructions, so generally can be used for script programming. Its highly extendable and base DTD can be easily changed, so it allows to create own dialects of Bee.

CPMake
CPMake is a build tool similar to GNU make where as it lets file dependencies determine what tasks to perform. The build files can be written in either BeanShell or Jython script. CPMake has a built in dependency parser for both Java and C/C++ files. CPMake is a build tool similar to GNU make where as it lets file dependencies determine what tasks to perform. The build files can be written in either BeanShell or Jython script. CPMake has a built in dependency parser for both Java and C/C++ files.

Autojar
Autojar helps creating jar files of minimal size from different inputs like own classes, external archives etc. It starts from one or more given classes (e.g., an applet), recursively searches the bytecode for references to other classes, extracts these classes from the input archives, and copies them to the output. The resulting archive will only contain the classes that are really needed. Thus one can keep size and loading time of applets low or make applications independent of installed libraries. In a similar way, autojar can search directories and archives for other resources (like image files), extract them and copy them to the output. Although autojar cant know exactly which classes get loaded dynamically, it can search the bytecode for invocations of Class.forName() and warn about it. In some cases (constant class name), it can even find out which classes are to be loaded, and add them automatically to the output. Autojar helps creating jar files of minimal size from different inputs like own classes, external archives etc. It starts from one or more given classes (e.g., an applet), recursively searches the bytecode for references to other classes, extracts these classes from the input archives, and copies them to the output. The resulting archive will only contain the classes that are really needed. Thus one can keep size and loading time of applets low or make applications independent of installed libraries. In a similar way, autojar can search directories and archives for other resources (like image files), extract them and copy them to the output. Although autojar cant know exactly which classes get loaded dynamically, it can search the bytecode for invocations of Class.forName() and warn about it. In some cases (constant class name), it can even find out which classes are to be loaded, and add them automatically to the output.

APB
APB is a simple, yet powerfull, project build system that inherits some ideas from Ant and Maven while trying to avoid the use of complex XML files to define the metadata of the project. Project Definition is done in Java so you have the full power of Java plus the benefit of using your favorite IDE to edit the configuration files. Here are some of the features APB provides out-of-the-box: APB is a simple, yet powerfull, project build system that inherits some ideas from Ant and Maven while trying to avoid the use of complex XML files to define the metadata of the project. Project Definition is done in Java so you have the full power of Java plus the benefit of using your favorite IDE to edit the configuration files. Here are some of the features APB provides out-of-the-box: * Simple project definition based on default layouts, but with flexibility to accomodate your preferred one. * Model based builds: APB is able to build projects based on metadata about the project. * Full extensibility using Java * Dependency management * Full project lifecycle, including compilation, packaging and testing. * Coverage support during testing * Documentation generation * Generation of project files for common IDEs (Currently Intellij Idea) * Ant tasks to integrate APB projects into foreign contexts. * Command line invocation including shell-completion