We are pleased to announce the availability of Ivy 1.4 and IvyDE 1.1.0.
Ivy is an agile and open source dependency manager, with powerful features such as transitive dependencies, an outstanding flexibility, ant integration, maven repository compatibility, continuous integration, html reports and many more.
Besides its strong dependency management engine, Ivy also benefits from an always growing user community, a public repository of common ivy files, and from the source professional quality services.
We are pleased to announce the availability of Ivy version 1.4-RC2.
Ivy is an agile java based dependency manager, with powerful features such as transitive dependencies, an outstanding flexibility, ant integration, maven repository compatibility, continuous integration, html reports and many more.
Besides its strong dependency management engine, Ivy also benefits from an always growing user community, a public repository of common ivy files, and from the source professional quality services.
At the beginning there was a news from the SpringFramework contemplating about migrating to maven for their build.
Then there was the reaction of Sylvain Wallez on his blog.
And this post triggered interesting discussions, both in the comments, and on several other blogs. Carlos Sanchez, Steve Loughran, Stephane Baillez gave their interesting point of view on what goes much further than Ivy, Ant or Maven discussion, ant more about the build and release systems requirements.
After more than 6 months of development and testing, we are pleased to announce the availability of Ivy version 1.4-RC1.
Ivy is an agile java based dependency manager, with powerful features such as transitive dependencies, an outstanding flexibility, ant integration, maven repository compatibility, continuous integration, html reports and many more.
Besides its strong dependency management engine, Ivy also benefits from an always growing user community, a public repository of common ivy files, and from the source professional quality services.
Sylvain Wallez on his blog wrote a post relating his personnal experience with Maven and why he switched back to Ant+Ivy.
Alban, in his blog, says:
Marty Andrews in his blog talks about how he used Ivy and yFiles to deal with a complex software system. The generated diagram gives some hint on how complex the systems using Ivy to manage dependencies can be!

Jayasoft organizes a survey about its new project World Of Java.
Please take a few minutes to answer it here.
Thanks a lot,
The Jayasoft Team
Davor Cengija wrote a nice article describing how to integrate Ivy and luntbuild:
Here comes a french only presentation announcement. Sorry for non french readers, we hope your time will come too 
La société Jayasoft, spécialisée dans les technologies Java, a le plaisir de vous convier à une présentation de ses produits et services.
Cette présentation aura lieu le jeudi 18 mai 2006 à 17:30 dans les locaux de Jayasoft (27, rue françois arago - 33700 Mérignac - France). Celle-ci se terminera par un buffet afin que des discussions puissent s'engager entre les participants.
Le programme est le suivant :

Let's the best nominee win !!!

Mert Caliskan explains on his blog how he uses Ivy to publish his new module versions:
Steve Loughran, one of the main ant developper, gives a way to migrate from maven to ant on his blog. He advise to investigate Ivy as a repository tool with better metadata. read more.
Alexei Vidmich on his blog talk about dependency management in his java projects on his blog:
We are pleased to announce the availability of Ivy 1.3.1
Ivy is our popular free java based dependency manager, with powerful features such as transitive dependencies, ant integration, maven repository compatibility, continuous integration, html reports and many more.
This new version of Ivy is a bug fix release, which fixes particularly some bugs in the conflict management area. Upgrade from 1.3 is strongly recommended.
Alexei Vidmich on his blog talk about dependency management in his java projects on his blog:
Steve Loughran, one of the main ant developper, gives a way to migrate from maven to ant on his blog. He advise to investigate Ivy as a repository tool with better metadata. read more.
Mert Caliskan explains on his blog how he uses Ivy to publish his new module versions:


Let's the best nominee win !!!
Here comes a french only presentation announcement. Sorry for non french readers, we hope your time will come too 
La société Jayasoft, spécialisée dans les technologies Java, a le plaisir de vous convier à une présentation de ses produits et services.
Cette présentation aura lieu le jeudi 18 mai 2006 à 17:30 dans les locaux de Jayasoft (27, rue françois arago - 33700 Mérignac - France). Celle-ci se terminera par un buffet afin que des discussions puissent s'engager entre les participants.
Le programme est le suivant :
Davor Cengija wrote a nice article describing how to integrate Ivy and luntbuild:
Jayasoft organizes a survey about its new project World Of Java.
Please take a few minutes to answer it here.
Thanks a lot,
The Jayasoft Team

We are pleased to announce the availability of Ivy 1.3.1
Ivy is our popular free java based dependency manager, with powerful features such as transitive dependencies, ant integration, maven repository compatibility, continuous integration, html reports and many more.
This new version of Ivy is a bug fix release, which fixes particularly some bugs in the conflict management area. Upgrade from 1.3 is strongly recommended.
We are proud to announce the availability of Ivy 1.3 and IvyDE 1.0, our popular dependency management tool and eclipse companion. After several weeks of testing and release candidates cycles, the last release candidates of both Ivy and IvyDE are promoted to the release status.
So don't wait any more, download those new versions and upgrade your tools, you will then benefit of a lot of bug fixes and improvements, including:
* a new default resolver which eases the use of ivy in common team environment with little or no configuration
We are pleased to announce the availability of Ivy 1.3 RC3 and IvyDE 1.0 RC1.
Ivy is our popular free java based dependency manager, with powerful features such as transitive dependencies, ant integration, maven repository compatibility, continuous integration, html reports and many more.
This new release candidate of Ivy improves the stability and add some small improvements to features added in the last release candidate.
Jesse Glick was kind enough to inform us that a new entry has been added to the netbeans FAQ:
We are pleased to announce the availability of Ivy 1.3-RC2, IvyDE 1.0 beta 2 (0.9.7) and IvyCruise 1.1.
This new release candidate of Ivy, our popular dependency management tool, improves the stability and add some small improvements to features added in the latest release candidate.
IvyDE, the open source eclipse plugin which brings the power of ivy to the eclipse developers, now reaches a new beta version with many bug fixes and improvements, such as the possibility to directly perform ivy retrieve when resolving dependencies.
We are proud to announce the availability of the beta version of World Of Java, a new javadoc and sources service.

World of Java beta mainly consists of a database of more than 2000 open source java projects and revisions which you can access from a dedicated eclipse plugin with absolutely no configuration except a login and password !
Get access to your java dependencies sources and javadocs with no effort, join the WOJ beta program now.
Endoclinic is a Secure Patient Management System (SPMS) and a general purpose program for endocrinologic clinics using state of the art security, design and software platforms.
Spiros Gezerlis nicely contacted us to inform that this application uses UIState among other open source technologies.
We are pleased to announce the availability of Ivy version 1.3-RC1 and IvyDE 1.0 beta 1.
Ivy is a free java based dependency manager, with powerful features such as transitive dependencies, ant integration, maven repository compatibility, continuous integration, html reports and many more.
As well as its strong dependency management engine, Ivy also benefits from a growing user community, a public repository of common ivy files, and from the source professional quality services.
In his blog, Tiago silveira wishes to see more Ivy for 2006. We hope his wish will be accomplished !