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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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