Apache Ant and Apache Ivy
Apache Ivy is a dependency manager often used in Apache Ant builds. It supports the Maven repository format and can be configured to download dependencies that can be declared in the ivy.xml
file. This configuration can be contained in the ivysettings.xml
. A minimal example for resolving dependencies from a repository manager running on localhost is shown:
<ivysettings> <settings defaultResolver="nexus"/> <property name="nexus-public" value="http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/groups/public"/> <resolvers> <ibiblio name="nexus" m2compatible="true" root="${nexus-public}"/> </resolvers> </ivysettings>
These minimal settings allow the ivy:retrieve
task to download the declared dependencies.
To deploy build outputs to a repository with the ivy:publish task, user credentials and the URL of the target repository have to be added to ivysettings.xml
and the makepom
and publish
tasks have to be configured and invoked.
Full example projects can be found in the ant-ivy
folder of the documentation examples project. A full build of the simple-project
, including downloading the declared dependencies and uploading the build output to the repository manager can be invoked with:
cd ant-ivy/simple-project ant deploy