Anthill Build Management Server

http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/default.jsp

Anthill is a tool that ensures a controlled build process and promotes the sharing of knowledge within an organization. Anthill performs a checkout from the source repository of the latest version of a project before every build and tags the repository with a unique build number after every build. It supports many reposistory adapters including: CVS (Concurrent Versions System), Visual Source Safe, Perforce, PVCS, StarTeam, MKSIntegrity and FileSystem. Anthill also automatically updates a project intranet site with artifacts from the latest build. Anthill is an extension to the Apache-Ant project and is compatible with version 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 of Ant. Anthill is Open Source and is released under a Mozilla-like license.

Controlled Build Server:

means to track every build
ability to recover and reproduce any build
hands-off operation

Platform for sharing knowledge about software assets:

central location for project websites including documentation, javadocs, project downloads, etc.
automatic email notification of build status to interested parties

Process automation tool:

automates the build process (nightly builds)
can run unit tests with every build
generates source code metrics with every build
etc.

eXtreme Programming tool:

implements continuous integration
runs unit tests with every build

Tool for code reuse:

supports dependencies between projects
implements Reuse/Release Equivalence Principle

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