问题
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 multiple ant files.
I need a tool that can provide a visualization of the execution flow plus property dependencies of an ant invocation. VizAnt and Grand only graph target invocations, so I'm looking for something heavier-duty. Ideally, such a tool would identify the order of target invocations, as well as property values live at invocation, and properties, files, directories, classpath entries, etc. that are referenced in the body of a target.
My first thought was to manually graph it all in OmniGraffle, but the complexity quickly became unmanageable. Surely there's something more recent out there?
回答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
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2255014/need-a-tool-for-visualizing-ant-execution-flows-and-properties