Nothing listed here is directly supported by the Ant
developers, if you encounter any problems with them, please use
the contact information.
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.
AntDoc is a tool that generates HTML documentation from Ant
buildfiles; the generated HTML is inspired from what javadoc
yields. It also offers a simple Ant target launcher named
AntDoc GUI. Ant targets may be launched from the generated
AntDoc HTML pages.
AntDoc can be run via an Ant task, AntDoc GUI can be run
via an Ant task, or via a JVM launch.
Anthill is a build tool that promotes a controlled build
process by ensuring that every build reflects the source
repository contents and tagging the repository with a unique
build number after every build. Anthill also encourages the
sharing of knowledge within an organization by automatically
updating a project intranet site with artifacts from the
latest build.
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.
Krysalis Centipede is a project build system based on
Apache Ant. Centipede uses pre-packaged modules called "cents"
that it downloads and installs automatically. Cents can be
used as Ant tasks or easy to use targets.
For example, Forrest is an XML standards oriented project
documentation framework based on Apache Cocoon. In order to
assist your projects adoption of this powerful documentation
generation tool we have packaged it as a cent that will
(optionally) be automatically downloaded, installed and used
to build project documentation which includes output from
other cents such as Javadoc, JDepend, Checkstyle and many
others.
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.
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.
XML Publication is a set of tools to generate Web pages
from desktop documents or other structured documents using
XSLT and Ant.
