Apache Ivy is a transitive package manager. It is a sub-proejct of the Apache Ant project, with which Ivy works to resolve project dependencies. An external XML file defines project dependencies and lists the resources necessary to build a project. Ivy then resolves and downloads resources from an artifact repository: either a private repository or one publicly available on the Internet.
To some degree, it competes with Apache Maven, which also manages dependencies. However, Maven is a complete build tool, whereas Ivy focuses purely on managing transitive dependencies.
These build tools and continuous intergration were using Ivy:
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Grails (until anticipated 3.0 release in 2014)
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gradle (until replaced by an internal dependency resolution engine in release 1.0)
