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Introducing Mike - Hosted Continuous Integration

Initially targeted at Java Development teams, Mike enables small teams to quickly and easily implement CI.Mike currently supports Ant-based builds or you can...

0 replies - 358 views - 10/21/09 by leggetta in Announcements

The future of Java build tools

With a short post on dzone Adam Bien revived an old flame-war: should we use Ant or Maven as our build tool. The post itself seems a little biased on the maven...

12 replies - 7319 views - 02/24/09 by Adam Pohorecki in Articles

Gant 1.6.0: Build Listeners

Gant 1.6.0 has been released.This is really a single change release -- Gant now supports build listeners, thanks to Graeme Rocher -- but there are a couple of...

0 replies - 1501 views - 01/24/09 by Russel Winder in Announcements

Gant 1.5.0 released

Gant 1.5.0 has been released and has already made it to Debian Sid and Ubuntu Jaunty.There are lots of bug fixes but the main features are a restructuring of...

0 replies - 1063 views - 12/17/08 by Russel Winder in Announcements

Savant 2.0 Release Candidate 1 Available

Savant 2.0 release candidate 1 is available. Savant is a build tool and dependency management system that extends the functionality of Apache Ant. Savant is...

2 replies - 1257 views - 11/18/08 by Brian Pontarelli in Announcements

Ant or Gant?

Yes, this is exactly what I am frequently asked by my clients and many developers. It isn't easy to answer this question. There are several  projects using...

33 replies - 15285 views - 09/23/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Reverse-engineer Source Code into UML Diagrams

I have been on several teams where we studiously designed UML diagrams at the beginning of the project. As the project progressed, and deadlines approached,...

49 replies - 33455 views - 08/22/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Visual Documentation of Ant Dependencies in 3 Simple Steps

An automated build process with Ant is one of the most crucial things required in any CI process. Ant is the build tool of choice for many Enterprise Java...

0 replies - 3778 views - 08/13/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Session on Gant, the Groovy Way of Scripting Ant Tasks

I will be doing an "In the Brain" session on Gant (The Groovy way of scripting Ant tasks) on Thursday 2008-08-21 18:30. This will happen at Skills...

0 replies - 1218 views - 07/22/08 by Russel Winder in Announcements

Book Review: Java Power Tools

This book is organized into sections, and each section covers a particular aspect of software development life cycle. Within each section, John covers a number of open source tools. Build...

5 replies - 12553 views - 05/27/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

JCatapult RC2 released!

The JCatapult team is pleased to announce the release of 1.0-RC2.  For those unfamiliar with JCatapult, here is an overview: JCatapult is an open source...

0 replies - 1258 views - 05/19/08 by Brian Pontarelli in Announcements

Head First Software Development

1.Great Software Development : Pleasing your customer "If the customer's unhappy, everyone's unhappy." No doubt at all. The authors in this chapter show us how to avoid being a...

1 replies - 5041 views - 03/06/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

What's Wrong with Build Systems in Java Today?

I think there's something fundamentally wrong with all build systems for Java that are available today.

26 replies - 7671 views - 02/17/08 by Steven Devijver in News

Building a Better Maven with Ant

It looks like the Ant folks are thinking of building a better Maven. I see many developers adopt Maven because they want a build system able to provide common...

15 replies - 4666 views - 02/11/08 by Matt Raible in News

Maven and Ant - the eternal debate

Howard Lewis Ship recently blogged about his woes with Maven, which has predictably triggered a long and interesting discussion/flame war.I respect Howard a...

10 replies - 4439 views - 01/31/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs