Language Agnostic Build Management System

Question

Several times in my career, I have worked in a software group that determined that

a) We needed a build/test system
b) We should write our own
c) We can have a

Answer 1

Apache's Continuum and Atlassian's Bamboo will meet #2-6.

Doing #1 in a language-agnostic way is a little tougher.

Maven and Ivy both work for Java dependencies.