Java Forum / General / December 2005
[ANN] AnthillPro 2.5 Build Management Server Released
Urbancode - 29 Nov 2005 20:29 GMT Cleveland, OH - November 29, 2005 - Urbancode, Inc. is proud to announce the release of version 2.5 of Anthill Pro, their pioneering, award-winning Build Management server software. This new version includes a host of upgrades to Anthill Pro's repository drivers and user interface, and comes bundled with Ant 1.6.4.
Urbancode president Maciej Zawadzki is excited about the continual evolution of his pioneering product and the marketplace he played a large part in creating. "It seems that every few months brings new players to the Build Management arena, and Urbancode is dedicated to staying out front and ahead of the competition, for both our existing customers and new ones as well. Anthill Pro 2.5 accomplishes just that."
Build Management, as delivered by Anthill Pro, is a process that alleviates human resources from the mistake-prone drudgery of performing complex and lengthy software builds, thus allowing them to spend their time more efficiently. In its most simplified form, Anthill Pro will, according to your schedule, automatically check out code from the repository of your choice, build the code using the builder and environment of your choice, version and label the software according to your scheme, and publish the build artifacts to the location of your choosing, all the while informing all interested parties of build results via email. However, Anthill Pro can scale to meet any development initiative, including managing dependencies.
Anthill Pro 2.5's myriad improvements to the repository drivers set highlights a major competitive advantage of Urbancode's over their competition - customer service. "We are totally dedicated to customer service," says Zawadzki, "and there many ways to accomplish this. Besides rapid response times to service calls and active participation in our user forums, we also address user-identified issues in short order. We are totally focused on seamless operation for our customers."
To that end, Anthill Pro 2.5 boasts improvements to its PVCS, ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe, Subversion, Perforce, CVS, BitKeeper, and StarTeam drivers. "Most of the driver improvements are based on customer-based requests. When you buy Anthill Pro, you become part of our community and you can participate in the process of improvement," says Zawadzki. "Furthermore, Anthill has been around since 2001 and has many more customers than anyone else in the market, so our community is the biggest and has the most to offer. Chances are, if you experience a problem, someone has already addressed it."
It should be noted that Urbancode uses Anthill Pro for all their development work; not a small point because they are able to identify problems often long before the customers do. One area in particular in which they excel at this is the user interface. Zawadzki says, "We use Anthill Pro all day, every day, and we are constantly identifying and implementing improvements to the look and feel of the product."
Finally, Anthill Pro 2.5 now comes bundled with Ant 1.6.4, however Zawadzki is quick to point out that the bundling is for convenience only. "Ant 1.6.4 is bundled so that if you don't feel like downloading and installing Ant, you don't have to, but Anthill Pro is designed to support many versions of Ant concurrently and allows customers to set up their own Ant Configurations. Each project in Anthill Pro could potentially use a different version of Ant."
Download a fully-functional 30-day trial edition of Anthill Pro 2.5 at http://www.urbancode.com/products/anthillpro
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Urbancode, Inc., founded in 1995, is based in Cleveland, Ohio and specializes in development tools and large-scale software projects. Please contact Maciej Zawadzki (MAH-chay zuh-VAHD-ski) for more information:
Urbancode, Inc. 2044 Euclid Ave, Suite 600 Cleveland, OH 44115 (216) 858-9000 (216) 858-9602 fax info@urbancode.com
Roedy Green - 30 Nov 2005 00:18 GMT >Cleveland, OH - November 29, 2005 - Urbancode, Inc. is proud to announce the >release of version 2.5 of Anthill Pro, their pioneering, award-winning Build >Management server software. This new version includes a host of upgrades to >Anthill Pro's repository drivers and user interface, and comes bundled with >Ant 1.6.4. A lot of words. I take it what this thing does is let you hook up to a variety of version control systems through ANT.
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irvkatz@gmail.com - 30 Nov 2005 20:44 GMT < 600 words is a lot of words?!?
Regardless, you are incorrect. Please RTFA.
Roedy Green - 30 Nov 2005 22:50 GMT >< 600 words is a lot of words?!? > >Regardless, you are incorrect. Please RTFA. 600 words is a lot of words to announce a product and still not explain what it FOR . It is up to the person posting an announcement to make it clear to even casual reader what the product is used for. People should not have to chase links to read manuals just to find out if the product is potentially of any use.
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Roedy Green - 30 Nov 2005 23:05 GMT On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:50:59 GMT, Roedy Green <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website@munged.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>>Regardless, you are incorrect. Please RTFA. NO! I hane read the fool announcement TWICE that is twice what it should require. It is up to the author to be clear and get to the point and not shovel meaningless sales crap down unwilling throats.
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Jeffrey Schwab - 30 Nov 2005 23:22 GMT > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:50:59 GMT, Roedy Green > <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website@munged.invalid> wrote, quoted or [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > should require. It is up to the author to be clear and get to the > point and not shovel meaningless sales crap down unwilling throats. Rough day?
irvkatz@gmail.com - 01 Dec 2005 00:11 GMT Yo, Roedy, you cannot be serious. There is no way that you read the thing. Look at the THIRD freaking paragraph (OMG, not the THIRD whole paragraph):
"Build Management, as delivered by Anthill Pro, is a process that alleviates human resources from the mistake-prone drudgery of performing complex and lengthy software builds, thus allowing them to spend their time more efficiently. In its most simplified form, Anthill Pro will, according to your schedule, automatically check out code from the repository of your choice, build the code using the builder and environment of your choice, version and label the software according to your scheme, and publish the build artifacts to the location of your choosing, all the while informing all interested parties of build results via email. However, Anthill Pro can scale to meet any development initiative, including managing dependencies."
OK, NOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT DOES?
Chris Uppal - 01 Dec 2005 03:02 GMT > "Build Management, as delivered by Anthill Pro, is a process that > alleviates human resources from the mistake-prone drudgery of [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > OK, NOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT DOES? AT ABOUT THE POINT I'VE ELIDED I STOPPED READING. AGAIN.
Learn to communicate. Learn to keep to the point. Learn to focus on what your audience want to know.
And for f.ck's sake learn to STOP SHOUTING.
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Roedy Green - 01 Dec 2005 03:35 GMT >"Build Management, as delivered by Anthill Pro, is a process that >alleviates human resources from the mistake-prone drudgery SALES CRAP.
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Roedy Green - 01 Dec 2005 03:37 GMT >"Build Management, as delivered by Anthill Pro, is a process that >alleviates human resources from the mistake-prone drudgery of [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >OK, NOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT DOES? No.
It is no more informative than the commercials for the fictitious product VIP that Doris Day spoofed.
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Chris Smith - 01 Dec 2005 06:58 GMT > No. > > It is no more informative than the commercials for the fictitious > product VIP that Doris Day spoofed. Actually, if you skip the first and last sentences of that paragraph, the rest of it actually does explain what the product does. Too bad most people will do the opposite and actually read the first (extremely long) paragraph and stop reading before they get to the real explanation.
FYI, Anthill is a continuous integration tool. It runs in the background, periodically builds the latest code from CVS, and looks for errors or test failures. Another similar product is CruiseControl.
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Roedy Green - 01 Dec 2005 08:29 GMT > it actually does explain what the product does. In what language?
In its most simplified form, Anthill Pro will, according to your schedule, automatically check out code from the repository of your choice, build the code using the builder and environment of your choice, version and label the software according to your scheme, and publish the build artifacts to the location of your choosing, all the while informing all interested parties of build results via email.
"publish the build artifacts" -- GET REAL!. What that mean is it will copy the executable files. WHOOPEE.
The announcement should have said:
On schedule, Anthill Pro checks out a project from any version control repository, and invokes a build. It is not a build tool itself; it uses your existing build tool. It optionally sends emails when it is done.
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