JavaGen Ant Modules or JAM* is a modular Ant toolkit for building J2EE applications. It consists of a collection of Ant scripts designed to perform common Java/J2EE build tasks such as compilation, packaging, testing, deployment and J2EE application server control. Although originally developed to support the JavaGen code generator, JAM has evolved into a full feature, stand-alone build framework. Highlights include: JAM leverages the new import and target override features of Ant 1.6 to create a reusable build framework. JAM defines a small set of standard target names. JAM includes a Maven-to-Ant bridge providing access to Maven's POM and repository features directly from Ant. JAM supports various J2EE application servers as interchangeable modules. JAM supports code generation technologies such as XDoclet and UML-based JavaGen. JAM has extensive support for various unit test technologies including JUnit and Cactus. JAM modules support CVS, Axis, Castor, JMX, Hibernate and ...
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