What is AntHill?
A lovely piece of propoganda for the opposition... 
AntHill (http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/default.jsp) is a tool that ensures a controlled build process and promotes the sharing of knowledge within an organization. AntHill performs a checkout from the source repository of the latest version of a project before every build and tags the repository with a unique build number after every build. Anthill also automatically updates a project intranet site with artifacts from the latest build. AntHill is an extension to the ApacheAnt project and is compatible with version 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 of Ant. AntHill is [OpenSource] and is released under a Mozilla-like license.
Actually, only the low-end version is [OpenSource]; UrbanCode has a professional edition which costs some serious bikkies... Interestingly, the featuresetof the pro version reads exactly like the feature set for CruiseControl.
WhatCruiseControlCanLearnFromAntHill
See Also: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AntHillvsCruiseControl
Why someone thinks CuirseControl is better than AntHill
First Blog: http://mikemason.ca/2004/08/12/
Follow up: http://mikemason.ca/2004/08/18/#042CruiseVsAnthillPart2
Project Website
http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/default.jsp
Supported VCS systems:
- CVS
- VisualSourceSafe (in v1.5)
- StarTeam? (in v1.5)
- PerforceVersionControl (in v1.5)
- PVCS (in v1.5)
Controlled Build Server:
- means to track every build
- ability to recover and reproduce any build
- hands-off operation
Platform for sharing knowledge about software assets:
- central location for project websites including documentation, javadocs, project downloads, etc.
- automatic email notification of build status to interested parties
Process automation tool:
- automates the build process (NightlyBuilds)
- can run unit tests with every build
- generates source code metrics with every build
- etc.
eXtreme Programming tool:
- implements ContinuousIntegration
- runs unit tests with every build
Tool for code reuse:
- supports dependencies between projects
- implements Reuse/Release Equivalence Principle
Anthill vs. Cruisecontrol'
WhyAllTheAntHillPages?
