Apache Ivy Explained

Apache Ivy
Developer:Apache Software Foundation
Latest Release Version:2.5.2
Latest Release Date:[1]
Operating System:Cross-platform
Platform:Java
Programming Language:Java
Genre:Library dependency
License:Apache License 2.0

Apache Ivy is a transitive package manager. It is a sub-project of the Apache Ant project, with which Ivy works to resolve project dependencies. An external XML file defines project dependencies and lists the resources necessary to build a project. Ivy then resolves and downloads resources from an artifact repository: either a private repository or one publicly available on the Internet.

To some degree, it competes with Apache Maven, which also manages dependencies. However, Maven is a complete build tool, whereas Ivy focuses purely on managing transitive dependencies.

History

Jayasoft first created Ivy in September, 2004, with Xavier Hanin serving as the principal architect and developer of the project. Jayasoft moved hosting of Ivy (then at version 1.4.1) to Apache Incubator in October 2006. Since then, the project has undergone package renaming to reflect its association with the Apache Software Foundation. Package names prefixes of the form fr.jayasoft.ivy have become org.apache.ivy prefixes.

Ivy graduated from the Apache Incubator in October, 2007. As of 2009 it functions as a sub-project of Apache Ant. Over time, Ivy has been used in sbt (until sbt 1.3),[2] grails (until 2014),[3] gradle (until 2012),[4] and Jenkins.

IvyDE, an Eclipse extension for Ivy, was archived in November 2023.[5]

Features

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References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Release Notes Apache Ivy. 4 August 2024.
  2. https://www.scala-sbt.org/1.x/docs/sbt-1.3-Release-Notes.html sbt Reference Manual — sbt 1.3.x releases
  3. Web site: . Grails roadmap . 5 February 2014 . grails.org . 9 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140209085109/http://grails.org/Roadmap . dead .
  4. Web site: Gradle 1.0 Release Notes .
  5. Web site: Home Apache IvyDE™ . 4 August 2024 . The Apache Ant Project.