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Gant is a tool for scripting Ant tasks using Groovy instead of XML to specify the logic. A Gant specification is just a Groovy script and so can bring all the power of Groovy to bear directly, something not possible with Ant scripts. Whilst it might be seen as a competitor to Ant, Gant relies on all the Ant tasks for actually doing things, so it is really an alternative way of doing things using Ant, but using a programming language rather than XML to specify the rules.

Gant is a build tool for scripting Ant tasks using Groovy instead of XML to specify the build logic. A Gant build specification is just a Groovy script and so can bring all the power of Groovy to bear directly, something not possible with Ant scripts. Whilst it might be seen as a competitor to Ant, Gant relies on all the Ant tasks for actually doing things, so it is really an alternative way of doing builds using Ant, but using a programming language rather than XML to specify the build rules.

Samply.Common.MDRFaces is a Java Server Faces library which eases the user interface design of web applications where the respective data model relies on well defined data elements. Especially in case of systems for electronic data capturing, where the necessary data model is not known beforehand and can even vary over time, the user interface has to be easily adjustable. This often means the user instead of the developer designs the various forms for data entry and therefore an easy to use mechanism has to be provided. By using Samply.MDRFaces the developer can focus on the implementation of that mechanism, e.g. some editor component, but does not have to cope with the visualization of every single data element as for that is taken care of automatically.

The Java JDK includes various means of creating/consuming compressed files. What is missing is easy way of creating lazy streamed zip archive, in spirit of java.util.zip.DeflaterInputStream. This implementation relies on the fact that the PKZIP specification allows archiving data streams of sizes not known upfront. This implies that the archives produced will be readable only by tools aware of this trick. Notably, java.util.zip.ZipInputStream is OK with that, so we use it to test compatibility.

Shades is an Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) framework that works in conjunction with JDBC APIs. Instead of relying on XML or annotations for configuration, Shades relies on an interface called ORMapping. This makes shades simple and flexible. Shades has no new transaction model nor Connection management which you must learn. You control the transactions, and the Connection that Shades uses, through plain JDBC interfaces. Shades is designed to work well with modern web development frameworks like Tapestry and Wicket.