Audience
Organizations in need of a solution for managing, recording, tracking, resolving, and reporting project dependencies
About Apache Ivy
Apache Ivy™ is a popular dependency manager focusing on flexibility and simplicity. Find out more about its unique enterprise features, what people say about it, and how it can improve your build system! Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving, and reporting) project dependencies. Ivy is essentially process agnostic and is not tied to any methodology or structure. Instead, it provides the necessary flexibility and reconfigurability to be adapted to a broad range of dependency management and build processes. While available as a standalone tool, Ivy works particularly well with Apache Ant providing a number of powerful Ant tasks ranging from dependency resolution to dependency reporting and publication. Ivy has a lot of powerful features, the most popular and useful being its flexibility, integration with Ant, and strong transitive dependencies management engine. Ivy is open source and released under a very permissive Apache License.
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Apache Software Foundation
United States
ant.apache.org/ivy/
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Apache Ivy Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Apache Ivy work with?
Apache Ivy works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Apache Ivy support in their product?
Apache Ivy supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Apache Ivy offer?
Apache Ivy offers support via online.
Q: What other applications or services does Apache Ivy integrate with?
Apache Ivy integrates with: Apache Ant, Perforce TeamHub, and JFrog.
Q: What type of training does Apache Ivy provide?
Apache Ivy provides training in the form of documentation.
Q: How much does Apache Ivy cost?
Pricing for Apache Ivy starts at Free.
