Virtual Ant - A GUI for Apache Ant

Virtual Ant provides a GUI which provides a full macro recording mechanism for building Ant configuration files. The GUI allows you to specify operations and their orders, and builds the project file based on what you do. The project isn't available yet, but a video demo is - and the project author is asking for feedback.

Based on the video, Virtual Ant provides an environment similar to Windows Explorer. Everything you do on it takes place in a virtual file system (VFS) without affecting your real file system. The VFS emulates your real file system, so you can delete files, move them around, archive them, jar them, etc., without worrying about the effects on your real File system. Everything you do is recorded as an Ant task, and the build script is generated in the background. You can even open existing build scripts and play them in Virtual Ant to see what they do.

It also allows you to go back and forward in the tasks to see what the actual effect is of each task on the rest of the project.

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