Transitive Dependencies − Apache Ivy automatically manages transitive dependencies if one project or library depends upon other library which may need another library. Looks into local repositories first to resolve dependencies than look into other repositories. It keeps a cache of library already downloaded. Performance − Apache Ivy is built towards performance. You can define your own repository, conflict resolvers and latest strategy. Highly Flexible − Apache Ivy provides lots of default configurations and can be configured as per the requirement very easily.Įxtendible − Apache Ivy can be extended easily. Even build files are not dependent on Apache Ivy. Non-intrusive − Apache Ivy don't impose any restrictions as to be part of distribution. It is very simple to use as well.ĭependency Reports − Apache Ivy provides options to print dependencies graph in html as well as in reports format. Featuresįollowing are the important features of Apache Ivy.ĪNT Based − Apache Ivy provides a dependencies management capability to ANT based projects. 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.Īpache 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.

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