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The Formiga Scripting Language - for short Formiga - is a programming language similar to and based in Ant 1.1 but has evolved to become a scripting language that can be used by any application that can setup a context environment written in Java and communicate with it.

The Ant Projects are called Formlets in Formiga. A Formlet like a Project can be used as a procedure to execute system, application or user defined tasks but they also can be used to generate an output stream that can be, for instance, an XML or HTML document. To allow this, Formiga provides mechanisms to mix tasks and elements not understandable by Formiga in the same Formlet document. It also allows to transform, using a XSLT processor, the whole or a part of the generated XML document.... read more