Anthill is a 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, 1.4 and 1.5 of Ant. Anthill is Open Source and is released under a Mozilla-like license.

The Controlled Build Server provides:

- a means to track every build

- the ability to recover and reproduce any build

- hands-off operation

Platform for sharing knowledge about software assets:

- central location for project Web sites including documentation, Javadocs, project downloads, etc.

- automatic E-mail notification of build status to interested parties

Process automation tool:

- automates the build process (nightly builds)

- can run unit tests with every build

- generates source code metrics with every build

eXtreme Programming tool:

- implements continuous integration

- runs unit tests with every build

Tool for code reuse:

- supports dependencies between projects

- implements Reuse/Release Equivalence Principle

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