Ivy: Using dynamic revisions

Question

I\'m having problems understanding how I to use dynamic revisions of Ivy effectively in my Java projects.

Currently, I have the following layout:

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Answer 1

I would suggest reading the following tutorial on multi-module projects in Ivy.

• http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/tutorial/multiproject.html

ANT builds traditionally are big and monolithic. what you need to do is emulate Maven's way of splitting a large project up into a series of smaller builds. Each sub-build publishes it's artifact into ivy's local repo.

Ivy has lots of useful tasks for this kind of structure:

• buildlist - Called from your overall main build file. Use to look into each sub-module's ivy.xml and determine the proper build order (Some modules depende on others)
• buildnumber - Looks at what is already published and generate the next build number in the sequence
• publish - Push artifacts into local repo (or a foreign one, if configured in the ivysettings.xml file)