News and Announcements
Ivy 1.4 and IvyDE 1.1.0
Submitted by xavier on Tue, 2006-10-10 08:29.We are pleased to announce the availability of Ivy 1.4 and IvyDE 1.1.0.
Ivy is an agile and open source dependency manager, with powerful features such as transitive dependencies, an outstanding flexibility, ant integration, maven repository compatibility, continuous integration, html reports and many more.
Besides its strong dependency management engine, Ivy also benefits from an always growing user community, a public repository of common ivy files, and from the source professional quality services.
Ivy 1.4-RC2 is out
Submitted by xavier on Wed, 2006-09-27 17:05.We are pleased to announce the availability of Ivy version 1.4-RC2.
Ivy is an agile java based dependency manager, with powerful features such as transitive dependencies, an outstanding flexibility, ant integration, maven repository compatibility, continuous integration, html reports and many more.
Besides its strong dependency management engine, Ivy also benefits from an always growing user community, a public repository of common ivy files, and from the source professional quality services.
Interesting discussions about Maven vs Ant+Ivy comparison
Submitted by xavier on Wed, 2006-09-20 00:58.At the beginning there was a news from the SpringFramework contemplating about migrating to maven for their build.
Then there was the reaction of Sylvain Wallez on his blog.
And this post triggered interesting discussions, both in the comments, and on several other blogs. Carlos Sanchez, Steve Loughran, Stephane Baillez gave their interesting point of view on what goes much further than Ivy, Ant or Maven discussion, ant more about the build and release systems requirements.
Ivy 1.4-RC1 is out
Submitted by xavier on Mon, 2006-09-18 13:33.After more than 6 months of development and testing, we are pleased to announce the availability of Ivy version 1.4-RC1.
Ivy is an agile java based dependency manager, with powerful features such as transitive dependencies, an outstanding flexibility, ant integration, maven repository compatibility, continuous integration, html reports and many more.
Besides its strong dependency management engine, Ivy also benefits from an always growing user community, a public repository of common ivy files, and from the source professional quality services.
FreeCast made ivy
Submitted by xavier on Fri, 2006-09-08 22:16.Alban, in his blog, says:
The track management of FreeCast was on a home-made system [...] it required a large download, about 10 minutes of CPU for the first install and the resulting track directory was very very large. [...] (Ivy) (under BSD license) looks great (despite small limitations) but allows to make a fine track management with ant. [...] The first FreeCast build is now fast as never. read more
It's also interesting to see the repository they created:
http://ivy.kolaka.org/
Marty Andrews talks about how he used Ivy and yFiles to deal with a complex software system
Submitted by xavier on Thu, 2006-08-31 13:34.Marty Andrews in his blog talks about how he used Ivy and yFiles to deal with a complex software system. The generated diagram gives some hint on how complex the systems using Ivy to manage dependencies can be!
I've spent the last 15 months working on a project that was particularly complex. [...] We've been using Ivy to manage our module dependencies, so I wrote a script to parse the Ivy files and generate a graphml file read more
Ivy 1.3.1 available on gentoo
Submitted by xavier on Wed, 2006-08-23 23:36.Ivy is now available on gentoo:
http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-java;name=ant-ivy
Alexei Vidmich talking about Ivy
Submitted by xavier on Thu, 2006-07-20 02:12.Steve Loughran: "Migrating from Maven to Ant"
Submitted by xavier on Tue, 2006-07-04 13:20.Steve Loughran, one of the main ant developper, gives a way to migrate from maven to ant on his blog. He advise to investigate Ivy as a repository tool with better metadata. read more.
Mert Caliskan explains how he publishes module versions with Ivy
Submitted by xavier on Fri, 2006-06-23 10:32.Mert Caliskan explains on his blog how he uses Ivy to publish his new module versions:
I am using IVY for dependency management in my projects. If you are using ant as your building tool, ivy can become handy for dependency management processes. Ivy also provides publishing new jar files to your jar repository. ...
