Anthill Feature List

AntHill Feature List

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


Basic

• Support for multiple projects
• Temporal scheduling of project builds
• Ability to manually initiate a build

User Interface

• Web based user interface allows configuration of entire system (no need to manually edit configuration files)
• Convenient list of all projects and color coded results of their last builds (succeeded/failed) on the main page
• Project intranet with javadocs, junit test results, metrics, and downloadable artifacts

Version Control Systems Support

• CVS (Concurrent Versions System)
• Perforce
• PVCS
• Subversion
• VSS
• StarTeam
• MKS

Version Control System Interaction

• AntHill performs checkout or sync of project sources
• AntHill obtains log of revisions since last good build
• AntHill optionally applies a label with the current project version number

Ant Builder

• AntHill can execute any Ant build script to build the project
• No intrusion into the build script
• Use same build script to build locally and to build with Anthill
• Optional publish Ant script
• Ability to specify build target
• Ability to pass in extra Ant properties
• Ability to specify JVM options like -Xms and -Xmx

Inter-project Dependencies

• Dependency groups allow inter-project dependencies
• All dependent projects rebuild automatically when a new version of a dependency is available

Email Build Notification

• AntHill sends out emails informing interested parties of build results
• Customizable email template includes links to build logs and project intranet
• Receive emails for every build or only failed builds

Audits

• Build logs for every build of every project
• Revision logs listing VCS changes since last good build for every project