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Thursday, November 08, 2001

Anthill is 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. 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 and 1.4 of Ant. Anthill is Open Source and is released under a Mozilla-like license.

Butler - The idea behind Butler is to provide easy access to application configuration data. Good object oriented design dictates that configuration parameters not be hard coded into the application but abstracted out into a configuration file. The problem with such an approach is that it often results in various parts of the application having to read and parse the configuration file independently. The Butler solves that problem. It allows configuration data to be read once and then made accessible by any part of the application.

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