Apache CycloneDX Ant Library

Apache CycloneDX Ant Library™

This Antlib provides types and tasks that help creating CylconeDX SBOMs for Ant projects using manual dependency management. A corresponding library for projects using Apache Ivy is planned.

It relies heavily on the CycloneDX Core Java library.

Getting Involved

The source code of the Anlib lives at https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/ant-antlibs-cyclonedx.git. For discussions please join Ant's dev mailing list. For bug reports use the "CycloneDX" component in Ant's Bug Database.

Current Manual

The manual of the current release can be found here.

Installing

The latest binary release can be downloaded from https://ant.apache.org/abtlibs/bindownload.cgi. There are two binary bundles, one only contains the Antlib itself including docs and the other one also contains CycloneDX Core Java and all its dependencies.

The CycloneDX Antlib is also available from Maven Central with groupId org.apache.ant and artifactId ant-cyclonedx.

Apache CycloneDX Antlib 0.1

June 3, 2026 - CycloneDX Antlib 0.1 Released

Apache CycloneDX Antlib 0.1 is now available for download from https://ant.apache.org/abtlibs/bindownload.cgi.

This is the very first release of a library of Ant types and an Ant task that can be used to create CycloneDX SBOMs..