Web app for running ant task

Question

Does anyone know of a simple web app that supports running ant tasks? Alternatively it could run command line programs. I need to allow the user to choose parameters for running the ant task. I effectively want a web interface to run the ant task and provide any parameters.

I can write one but this is generic enough that it seems like there should already be a few standard packages that do this.

Answer 1

You could put this in a PHP-file:

echo shell_exec('ant');

It would run ant and return the output to the browser.

Answer 2

You could give Anthill a shot. They have an open source version. This will periodically check your source code repository, and run a specified ant task any time the code base changes. You can also manually trigger builds.