The EasyAnt project is pleased to announce its 0.8 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.

Changelog 0.8 :

Core:

 - Feature #132 <http://easyant.org/issues/132>: Switch to Ivy 2.2.0-rc1
 - Feature #117 <http://easyant.org/issues/117>: Switch to ant 1.8.1
 - Feature #136 <http://easyant.org/issues/136>: Introduce bindtarget task

 This tasks allow to change the mapping between target and phases.
 - Feature #137 <http://easyant.org/issues/137>: Introduce findclasspath
 task
 This task is designed to locate the right version of a SDK (for groovy /
 scala, but maybe for others SDK like android etc...).
 - Feature #138 <http://easyant.org/issues/138>: Introduce
 registerartifact task
 This task is in charge to register a given artifact to ivy context.
 In other words, this task is responsible of generating the right elements
 in the publicated module.ivy file.
 - Feature #70 <http://easyant.org/issues/70>: Introduce a menu generator
 task
 This task is used by documentation plugins (like xooki) to generate menu
 entries
 - Feature #116 <http://easyant.org/issues/116>: Introduce CheckResolver
 task to enforce plugin stability
 - Feature #124 <http://easyant.org/issues/124>: Introduce a ant task to
 run an easyant build process
 - Feature #100 <http://easyant.org/issues/100>: support for extends=info
 in ivy module parser
 - Feature #101 <http://easyant.org/issues/101>: publish merged version of
 Ivy descriptor when using module inheritence (<extend> tag in a module.ivy
 file)
 - Feature #119 <http://easyant.org/issues/119>: EasyAnt's launch scripts
 now support alternative ant distribution
 - Feature #122 <http://easyant.org/issues/122>: Simplify usage of project
 ivy settings (if exists use ivysettings.xml at the root level of the
 project)
 - Many bug fixes on core and documentation (plugin documentation now
 contains examples)
 - Simplify the build process of easyant core itself

Plugins :

 - Feature #94 <http://easyant.org/issues/94>: Introduce package-test-jar
 plugin
 - Feature #113 <http://easyant.org/issues/113>: Introduce
 maven-publication plugin
 - Feature #127 <http://easyant.org/issues/127>: Introduce distribution
 plugin
 - Feature #115 <http://easyant.org/issues/115>: Add support for
 integration tests
 - Feature #123 <http://easyant.org/issues/123>: Support filterset in
 resources-std plugin
 - Feature #98 <http://easyant.org/issues/98>: Support for
 pre-module-phases in multi module
 - Feature #128 <http://easyant.org/issues/128>: Add a new target on
 skeleton plugin to choose a skeleton from a list
 - Feature #111 <http://easyant.org/issues/111>: implement xooki
 menugenerator
 - Feature #92 <http://easyant.org/issues/92>: eadoc plugin should use ant
 uptodate check to improve performance
 - Feature #93 <http://easyant.org/issues/93>: add resource collection
 support to junit plugin
 - Feature #109 <http://easyant.org/issues/109>: Homogenize properties
 referencing the main class
 - Several bugfixes on
   - skeleton
   - mannifest
   - antunit
   - ivy-provisionning

You can have further details on EasyAnt 0.8 in the release
notes<http://easyant.org/versions/show/6>
.

Issues should be reported to: http://easyant.org/projects/easyant

Retrieve sources from the 0.8 release files at:
http://svn.easyant.org/tags/0.8/
Or download the 0.8 release files at:
http://www.easyant.org/projects/easyant/files

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

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

--
Jean Louis Boudart
Independent consultant
Project Lead http://www.easyant.org