News

28/06/2006 — EL4Ant 0.9.3 is out
Many bug fixes and improvements have been implemented.

31/10/2005 — EL4Ant 0.9.2 is out
The first release of EL4Ant has been published on sourceforge.

28/10/2005 — Website is up
The first release of the project website has been published on sourceforge.

Related projects

 EL4J - The Extension Library for the J2EE, adds incremental improvements to the Spring Java framework.

Sponsor

ELCA is a leading Swiss IT solution provider, serving customers throughout Europe. With headquarters in Lausanne, ELCA has offices in Zürich, Bern, Geneva, Paris and Ho Chi Minh City.

EL4Ant project overview

EL4Ant is a light and efficient build system based on Apache Ant.

A user project is described as modules with transitive dependencies and attributes to configure target behavior. The Ant targets are generated from the XML project description during the configuration step. Features are provided thanks to a simple plugin infrastructure that eases the development of extensions.

Currently supported high-level features:

• Project definition based on modules, transitive dependencies and attributes
• Java compilation
• Java command execution (Main class or JUnit)
• JUnit report generation
• Checkstyle report generation
• Javadoc generation
• Eclipse integration (.project and .classpath generation)
• EMMA code coverage integration (execution and reporting)

Plugin development enables to extend capabilities:

• Add Ant targets to the generated build.xml
• Provide additional Ant tasks
• Manage dependencies and attributes
• Generate specific targets for a module
• Generate project properties for Ant targets
• Generate any other files (with Velocity for instance)

Getting started

You are new to EL4Ant ?

• Read the quick start information and browse other documentation
• Download the latest release