Jar Name

Needed For

Available At

style task

XALAN : http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html

regexp type with mappers

http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/

regexp type with mappers and the perforce tasks
To use the FTP task, you need jakarta-oro 2.0.8 or later,

http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/

<junit> task. May be in classpath passed to task rather than Ant's classpath.

http://www.junit.org/

junitreport task

http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/

stylebook task

CVS repository of http://xml.apache.org/cvs.html

antlr task

http://www.antlr.org/

script task

Note : Ant 1.6 and later require Apache BSF, not the IBM version. I.e. you need BSF 2.3.0-rc1 or later.

Note : BSF 2.4.0 is needed to use a post 1.5R3 version of rhino's javascript.

Note : BSF 2.4.0 uses jakarata-commons-logging so it needs the commons-logging.jar.

http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/

Groovy with script and scriptdef tasks
You need to get the groovy jar and two asm jars from a groovy installation. The jars are groovy-[version].jar, asm-[vesion].jar and asm-util-[version].jar and antlr-[version].jar. As of groovy version 1.0-JSR-06, the jars are groovy-1.0-JSR-06.jar, antlr-2.7.5.jar, asm-2.2.jar and asm-util-2.2.jar. Alternatively one may use the embedded groovy jar file. This is located in the embedded directory of the groovy distribution. This bundles all the needed jar files into one jar file. It is called groovy-all-[version].jar.

http://groovy.codehaus.org/
The asm jars are also available from the creators of asm - http://asm.objectweb.org/

netrexx task, Rexx with the script task

http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/netrexx/download.html

Javascript with script task
If you use Apache BSF 2.3.0-rc1, you must use rhino 1.5R3 (later versions of BSF (e.g. version 2.4.0) work with 1.5R4 and higher).

http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/

Python with script task
Warning : jython.jar also contains classes from jakarta-oro. Remove these classes if you are also using jakarta-oro.

http://jython.sourceforge.net/

Python with script task deprecated, jython is the prefered engine

http://www.jpython.org/

TCL with script task

http://www.scriptics.com/software/java/

BeanShell with script task.
Note : Ant requires BeanShell version 1.3 or later

http://www.beanshell.org/

Ruby with script task

http://jruby.sourceforge.net/

Judoscript with script task

http://www.judoscript.com/index.html

CommonsLoggingListener

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging/index.html

Log4jListener

http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/index.html

ftp, rexec and telnet tasks
jakarta-oro 2.0.8 or later is required together with commons-net 1.4.0.
For all users, a minimum version of commons-net of 1.4.0 is recommended. Earlier versions did not support the full range of configuration options, and 1.4.0 is needed to compile Ant.

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/index.html

classfileset data type, JavaClassHelper used by the ClassConstants filter reader and optionally used by ejbjar for dependency determination

http://jakarta.apache.org/bcel/

Mail task with Mime encoding, and the MimeMail task

http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/

Support for SMTP over TLS/SSL
in the Mail task
Already included Java 1.4+

http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/

Mail task with Mime encoding, and the MimeMail task

http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/glasgow/jaf.html

jdepend task

http://www.clarkware.com/software/JDepend.html

xmlcatalog datatype only if support for external catalog files is desired

http://xml.apache.org/commons/ .

sshexec and scp tasks

http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/index.html

image task

http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/

Starteam version management tasks

http://www.borland.com/downloads/download_starteam.html