Invicta is a free and publicly accessible software for managing builds that is open-source.
Invicta is a build management tool that is designed to cater to the needs of large-scale projects. It can be used as a 'black box' or a complete framework, depending on the requirements of the developers. Invicta does not replace the existing build tools; instead, it serves as an upper layer that is stronger and easier to use. This layer hides the complexity of the actual build script language and provides additional functionalities. Based on Apache ANT, Invicta is not just an ANT extension but is generic enough to support other build tools in the future.
Developers use Invicta for processing their projects' definition files and generating build scripts accordingly. Each developer can edit simple XML files to define their components, their types, and their relationships. These definition files become an integral part of the project, just like the project's sources. Invicta addresses the needs of both simple developers and administrators.
For developers, Invicta's basic functionality works as a 'black box' that builds a project. For administrators or advanced developers, Invicta is a framework for their complete build environment. They can add their customized types of components by writing once ANT code that can be used by all the developers in their project or company many times by simply specifying the new type name.
Invicta's extensibility allows accessing the information processed from the project definition files for writing output files other than ANT build.xml, such as configuration files for a specific IDE. To make Invicta a useful open-source project that developers can quickly extend and contribute to its development, it must be a modular extensible framework. It should not be a 'closed' tool with a definite set of build functionalities. It should define standard methods for extending basic functionalities that can either be specific requirements of some developers or common functionalities that can be added to Invicta in an evolutionary way.
Developers use Invicta for processing their projects' definition files and generating build scripts accordingly. Each developer can edit simple XML files to define their components, their types, and their relationships. These definition files become an integral part of the project, just like the project's sources. Invicta addresses the needs of both simple developers and administrators.
For developers, Invicta's basic functionality works as a 'black box' that builds a project. For administrators or advanced developers, Invicta is a framework for their complete build environment. They can add their customized types of components by writing once ANT code that can be used by all the developers in their project or company many times by simply specifying the new type name.
Invicta's extensibility allows accessing the information processed from the project definition files for writing output files other than ANT build.xml, such as configuration files for a specific IDE. To make Invicta a useful open-source project that developers can quickly extend and contribute to its development, it must be a modular extensible framework. It should not be a 'closed' tool with a definite set of build functionalities. It should define standard methods for extending basic functionalities that can either be specific requirements of some developers or common functionalities that can be added to Invicta in an evolutionary way.
What's New
Version 0.1: N/A