Documentation

Welcome to the official EasyAnt documentation.

What is EasyAnt

Easyant is a toolbox focusing on easing project build processes.
It's based on Apache Ant and Apache Ivy, and allows for maximum flexibily, improved integration in existing build systems and provides conventions and guidelines.

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 as easy as writing Ant scripts.

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 using EasyAnt.

About this doc

If you are browsing this documentation from your installation of EasyAnt, you can also check the online version for latest updates.

You can also browse this documentation offline either by downloading the documentation distribution, or by checking out the src/documentation directory from svn. This documentation uses xooki as documentation engine, so you can very easily edit it and submit patches when you browse it from source.