Free apache ant software for linux

Apache Ant is a Java based build tool, similar to make, but with better support for the cross platform issues involved with developing Java applications.
Apache Ant is the build tool of choice for all Java projects at Apache and many other Open Source Java projects.
Enhancements:
- A resource framework was introduced.
- Some of the core ant tasks such as copy are now able to process not only file system resources but also zip entries, tar entries, and paths.
- Resource collections group resources, and can be further combined with operators such as union and intersection.
- This version starts outsourcing of optional tasks to Antlibs.
- The .NET antlib replaces the .NET optional tasks.
- Support for the version control system Subversion is also provided as an antlib.
- A large number of bugs were fixed.
- Some initial support for Java6 features was added.

Apache Incubator project is the entry path into The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundations efforts.

All code donations from external organisations and existing external projects wishing to join Apache enter through the Incubator.

The Apache Incubator has two primary goals:

- Ensure all donations are in accordance with the ASF legal standards
- Develop new communities that adhere to our guiding principles

Gump is Apaches continuous integration tool. Apache Gump is written in python and fully supports Apache Ant, Apache Maven and other build tools. Gump is unique in that it builds and compiles software against the latest development versions of those projects. This allows gump to detect potentially incompatible changes to that software just a few hours after those changes are checked into the version control system. Notifications are sent to the project team as soon as such a change is detected, referencing more detailed reports available online.

You can set up and run Gump on your own machine and run it on your own projects, however it is currently most famous for building most of Apaches java-based projects and their dependencies (which constitutes several million lines of code split up into hundreds of projects). For this purpose, the gump project maintains its own dedicated server.

How does Gump work?

With Traditional Gump, project definitions are converted from XML to scripts native to the platform on which you are running. With Python Gump the XML is mapped into in memory objects for processing. Scripts execute cvs or svn update commands for every module which contains a project being built, and invoke builds for each project in an order that ensures that dependencies are satisfied. Build outputs are processed and, if successful, dependent projects are then built on these outputs.

The commands use the actual build.xml files from the projects, but do not use the scripts or jar files checked into CVS/SVN. Instead, the CLASSPATH is set and properties are passed on the command line.

Note

Gump sets Ants build.sysclasspath to only and manages the system classpath:
To quote Ant: Only the system classpath is used and classpaths specified in build files, etc are ignored. This situation could be considered as the person running the build file knows more about the environment than the person writing the build file

The net effect is that every project is built every day with the latest version of every dependency - including the latest Ant, latest JUnit, latest XML parser.

The results are captured into html pages that largely are consistent with the style of the Jakarta project. An extensive amount of hypertext links are added to allow quick and easy navigation, and failures are color coded on the main build page.

A Perl script which is driven off of a naglist will optionally send e-mails to various newsgroups upon matching strings being found in the build output. This is typically used to alert developers of build failures.

Apache Graffito provides a framework used to build content-based applications.

Graffito is a framework used to build content-based applications like CMSs, document management systems, forums, blogs, etc. It offers a complete platform for creating, managing, and publishing content in your portal or in any other kind of Java application.

It integrates content repositories, workflow, collaboration, and personalization via existing open source projects and standards like WEBDAV.

Apache Solr is a high performace search server based on Lucene, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, and a Web administration interface.
The project is currently under incubation at the Apache Software Foundation.
Instructions for Building Apache Solr
1. Download the J2SE 5.0 JDK (Java Development Kit) or later from http://java.sun.com. You will need the JDK installed, and the %JAVA_HOME%bin directory included on your command path. To test this, issue a "java -version" command from your shell and verify that the Java version is 5.0 or later.
2. Download the Apache Ant binary distribution from http://ant.apache.org. You will need Ant installed and the %ANT_HOME%bin directory included on your command path. To test this, issue a "ant -version" command from your shell and verify that Ant is available.
3. Download the Apache Solr source distribution, linked from the above incubator web site. Expand the distribution to a folder of your choice, e.g. c:solr.
4. Navigate to that folder and issue an "ant" command to see the available options for building, testing, and packaging solr.
Enhancements:
- This is the first release since graduating from the Apache Incubator.
- Some of the new features include CSV/delimited-text data loading, time based autocommit, faster faceting, negative filters, a spell-check handler, sounds-like word filters, regex text filters, and more flexible plugins.

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java.
Apache Lucene is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.
Enhancements:
- Many new features, optimizations, and bugfixes have been added since 2.1.0, including "point-in-time" searching over NFS, payloads, function queries, and new APIs for pre-analyzed fields.
- This release includes index format changes that are not readable by older versions.
- It can both read and update older Lucene indexes.
- Adding to an index with an older format will cause it to be converted to the newer format.

Apache::ASP is a Perl module for Active Server Pages for Apache with mod_perl .

SYNOPSIS

SetHandler perl-script
PerlModule Apache::ASP
PerlHandler Apache::ASP
PerlSetVar Global /tmp/asp

Apache::ASP provides an Active Server Pages port to the Apache Web Server with Perl scripting only, and enables developing of dynamic web applications with session management and embedded Perl code. There are also many powerful extensions, including XML taglibs, XSLT rendering, and new events not originally part of the ASP API!