Open Source Build Tools

From the XML definition of your database, DewDrop will generate clean and human-readable SQL DDL code for any supported target database. This means you can define your database just once in XML, and have it work for any database automatically.

Gobisoft is a batch package builder for applications, it builds a self-install package of your programs. Creates a stand alone executable file that performs the (secured installation and removing) of the elements necessary to distribute your applications. The software offers many possibilities, such as executing commands before and after installation.

An Enterprise Focused Java Framework For Rapid Application Development. JAFFA is a Java web application development stack, build around Web 2.0 technologies (ExtJS, DWR, JAWR) with an extensive service architecture, meta-data layer and rules engine (based on JBoss AOP and Drools). It provides an event driven SOA infrastructure with advanced scheduling and queue sub-systems

cstem is a portable toolkit for probing and testing C/C++ system. It consist of 4 scripts: cprobe, cltest, cppdef, mkdep. cstem scripts can be used standalone or as part of software build systems. All scripts are portable and have no dependencies. See wiki for more information and examples.

msub - a Handy tool to read file(s) and perform substitutions using values of variables defined in makefile.

Easy bootstrap "Gentoo Prefix" for several unix-like operating systems (Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Interix, ...)