"Build managers allow developers to better coordinate their coding efforts by providing an automatically generated current and working snapshot of an application, including a binary file for immediate testing. Build managers are the next logical step to source code repositories. Urbancode's Anthill build management server for Java applications provides build automation, unit tests, build tracking, and support for a number of version control systems.
"Anthill works by checking out the latest version of the code from the source repository, building it, and automatically tagging the software with a version number. It also publishes the build status to a Web site. All this provides an easy framework to manage development releases and for packaging official releases..."
