ANTACID - Advanced GUI front-end for Jakarta Ant.
Current Release: v1.5.15
Last Build: Fri Aug 09:13:27 MDT 2 2002
IMPORTANT: DOWNLOAD v1.5.15
Project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/antacid
Home: http://antacid.sourceforge.net
Mailing list: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/antacid-user
Author: T Master (ultrafunkular at users.sourceforge.net)
Summary:
AntAcid is a RAD tool to speed the creation of ant build files.
There is no need to know xml, which is ant's file format.
Features:
- Defines workspaces.
Each workspace may hold several buildfiles. e.g. Your product is a suite of some sort. Each buildfile would be for each subset of that suite.
- Import/Save/Delete/Rename/Move workspaces.
- Import ant buildfiles
N.B: Comments are currently ignored, and will not be imported.
- Preview - a defined buildfile may be previewed
- File generation - generate your xml buildfile
- Browser - navigate your defined buildfile through a tree-structure representation.
- Attribute viewer - view the attributes in a table that displays their name, whether they are optional or required, and their value.
- Context-sensitive popup menus
Browser - no need to refer to the Ant User Manual to know which nested elements are available; select the task, display the menu, then select the nested task to add.
Atribute Viewer - add, remove, copy, and paste a task's attributes. The menu will show the available ones for use.
Screenshots:
The Main Window - An opened workspace.
The Main window - selecting the node:
Preview Panel - xml build file preview from the "Preview" menu choice:
Editing a Task, displaying nested tasks:
Displaying supported attributes of a Task:
Editing an XML comment:
The XML Layout Preferences Dialog, specify how to layout the xml elements and attributes:
Instructions:
It's intuitive enough... but for a quick read....yes a QUICK read.....
- make a workspace
- import your current build.xml file
- save your workspace
- explore the tree structure, and say "ooooooh, this is reaaaaaly nice" :).
- select your buildfile node, then select "Preview" from the popup menu.
- select the Preview tab panel on the right hand-side. Pritty xml.
- select the Attribute Table again.
- select the task node.
- select the attribute value cell for "name" in the Attribute Table.
- change the value to "this is a test", then hit to confirm the edit.
- press the "Save Attributes" button to save your changes into the Task.
- play with the other menu options.
Full Instructions here as included with Download package
Download v1.5.15
Author:
T Master ("Ultra Funkular")
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