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.....

1. make a workspace
2. import your current build.xml file
3. save your workspace
4. explore the tree structure, and say "ooooooh, this is reaaaaaly nice" :).
5. select your buildfile node, then select "Preview" from the popup menu.
6. select the Preview tab panel on the right hand-side. Pritty xml.
7. select the Attribute Table again.
8. select the task node.
9. select the attribute value cell for "name" in the Attribute Table.
10. change the value to "this is a test", then hit to confirm the edit.
11. press the "Save Attributes" button to save your changes into the Task.
12. 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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