Need a tool for visualizing ant execution flows and properties

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how the DITA Open Toolkit performs DITA to XHTML conversions, and it\'s difficult since the process is managed by dozens of ant targets spread over

Answer 1

yWorks Ant Explorer is kind of cool.

Graphical representation of the ANT build targets and dependencies http://www.yworks.com/demos/images/ae1.jpg

Execute code through the GUI explorer of the ANT build file http://www.yworks.com/demos/images/ae3.jpg

Run it by executing the jar file: java -jar antexplorer.jar

It looks like yWorks no longer supports it and have removed it from their website. Links that used to go to Ant Explorer now just take you to their product listing page.

But there appear to be several places that have it available for download:

• http://yworks-ant-explorer.software.informer.com/
• http://webscripts.softpedia.com/script/Development-Scripts-js/yWorks-Ant-Explorer-29247.html
• http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/?idea&id=135