Necessitas - Jar management for Eclipse

The first public release of Necessitas is now available. Necessitas is an Eclipse plug-in that adds a class-path container to manage a projects jars using the ivy dependency manager. In short it gives you many of the advantages of ivy without leaving eclipse.

What it does now

• Downloads the declared dependencies to the ivy cache
• Adds the downloaded jars to your class-path
• Can be configured to update the jars each time the ivy.xml file is updated

Still to come

• The ability to specify an ivy config file to use
• The ability to specify the module configuration to use
• Maybe, the ability to automatically download and associate source files

Know click for more information.

http://kevin.oneill.id.au/2005/06/06/necessitas-jar-management-for-eclipse