EasyAnt 0.7 released !

The EasyAnt project is pleased to announce its 0.7 version.

Easyant is a build system, that is based on Apache Ant and Apache Ivy.

Our goals are :

• to leverage popularity and flexibility of Ant.
• to integrate Apache Ivy, such that the build system combines a ready-to-use dependency manager.
• to simplify standard build types, such as building web applications, JARs etc, by providing ready to use builds.
• to provide conventions and guidelines.
• to make plugging-in of fresh functionalities easy as writing simple Ant scripts as Easyant plugins.

To still remain adaptable,

• Though Easyant comes with a lot of conventions, we never lock you in.
• Easyant allows you to easily extend existing modules or create and use your own modules.
• Easyant makes migration from Ant very simple. Your legacy Ant scripts could still be leveraged with Easyant.

What's new in 0.7?

• use latest official ant (no more a patched version)
• refactor antcontrib usage, antcontrib is now considered as a dependency of easyant-core
• add the capabilty to override target/phases defined in module.ivy (override.module.ant)
• enhanced multimodule support
  • full support for all standard build phases
  • full support for Ivy descriptor "extends"
  • build-scoped repository should allow overwrites (#74)
  • meta-build: better support for custom ivysettings.xml (#75)
• use two cache instance (one for easyant plugins/buildtypes, one for project)
• use cache by default instead of retrieving in lib directory
• simplify version management : uses revision attribute in module.ivy instead of a specific property (#81)
• simplify syntax of easyant tags, plugins/buildtypes now support two ways to be imported (#84):
  • using mrid

                <plugin mrid="org.apache.easyant.plugins#run-java;0.1"/>
    

  • using exploded style

                <plugin org="org.apache.easyant.plugins" module="run-java" revision="0.1"/>
    

• support Shortcut on buildtypes / plugins / skeletons in mrid style (#73)
• make the help more helpful (#13) introduce new useful command line lines switches (listTargets, listPlugins, listPhases, listProps, describe)
• add validation on easyant config files
• refactor the repository structure : default plugins/buildtypes are now shipped in easyant-core.jar, additional plugins are now shipped in easyant-extra-plugins.jar (#80)
• add support for provided artifacts (#83)
• performance improvement
• javadoc/scaladoc are no more imported in default buildtypes
• enhanced clean cache mechanism (can now clean easyant-cache or project cache) (#79, #80)
• add default skeleton for :
  • standard java application
  • standard java webapplication
• add new plugins
  • a small webstart plugins (Thanks to Nicolas Gapaillard for the contrib !)
  • docbook plugin (#62)
  • cobertura coverage plugin / "abstract-coverage" support (#67)
  • a new build type for easyant plugin (simplify easyant plugin development) #85
• improve skeleton plugin (#86)
• add support for LICENSE/NOTICE files in package-jar / package-war plugins (#87)
• support executable jar attributes in manifest plugin (#76)
• several bugfix on
  • emma
  • cobertura
  • junit (#78)
  • javadoc (#77)
  • xooki / eadoc

The plugin code has become stable, but you can still expect changes before the final release.

Issues should be reported to: http://www.easyant.org/trac/

Retrieve sources from the 0.7 release files at: http://svn.easyant.org/tags/0.7/

Or download the 0.7 release files at: http://www.easyant.org/trac/downloads

Online documentation is now accessible through : http://www.easyant.org/doc/

More information can be found on the Easyant website: http://www.easyant.org/

Regards, Jean Louis Boudart