Ant visual analysis? [closed]

Question

I have to look into some complicated Ant files which include targets of other Ant files and these others, targets from the original etc.
Is there a (visual) tool that helps understand Ant files and structure and how they end up building the deliverables?

Answer 1

You can try this tools:

• ant2dot - using GraphViz toolkit to generate the final graph;
• Vizant - using GraphViz toolkit to generate the final graph;
• Grand - using GraphViz toolkit to generate the final graph;
• ant-script-visualizer - using GraphViz toolkit to generate the final graph.

The IntelliJ IDEA has a very good support (has native plugin and several 3rd party plugins) of Apache Ant. You can read about Ant support in IDEA here.

Answer 2

At my work we've had good results with Grand.

Here is another link to various Ant visualization tools.