Apache Ivy 简明教程

Apache IVY - Overview

Apache Ivy 是一款非常流行也非常强大的依赖项管理工具，用于以与 Apache Maven 管理依赖项相同的方式，在基于 ANT 的项目中管理依赖项。

Apache Ivy is a very popular and very powerful dependency management tool used to manage dependencies in ANT based projects in the same fashion, how Apache Maven manages dependencies.

Apache Ivy 基于 Apache ANT，遵循相同的设计原则，是 Apache ANT 的一个子项目，并由 Apache ANT 社区积极管理和支持。

Apache Ivy is Apache ANT based, follows same design principles, is a subproject of Apache ANT and is actively managed and supported by Apache ANT Community.

Features

以下是 Apache Ivy 的重要功能。

Following are the important features of Apache Ivy.

  1. ANT Based − Apache Ivy provides a dependencies management capability to ANT based projects. It is very simple to use as well.

  2. Dependency Reports − Apache Ivy provides options to print dependencies graph in html as well as in reports format.

  3. Non-intrusive − Apache Ivy don’t impose any restrictions as to be part of distribution. Even build files are not dependent on Apache Ivy.

  4. Highly Flexible − Apache Ivy provides lots of default configurations and can be configured as per the requirement very easily.

  5. Extendible − Apache Ivy can be extended easily. You can define your own repository, conflict resolvers and latest strategy.

  6. Performance − Apache Ivy is built towards performance. It keeps a cache of library already downloaded. Looks into local repositories first to resolve dependencies than look into other repositories.

  7. Transitive Dependencies − Apache Ivy automatically manages transitive dependencies if one project or library depends upon other library which may need another library.

  8. Maven Repository − Apache Ivy follows conventions similar to Maven repository conventions. Apache Ivy can resolve dependencies using maven global repository.

  9. Maven 2 POMs − Apache Ivy can read Maven 2 POMs as module descriptors, can set ivy as module descriptor. Thus it makes easy to migrate existing projects to IVY managed projects.

  10. Publishing − Apache Ivy provides supports to publish your project and simplifies the multi-project environment deployment process.

  11. Free to Use − Apache Ivy is open source and is free to use.

  12. Documentation − Apache Ivy has a very detailed documentation and tutorials available to learn.