AntFlow is a tool for the automation and scheduling of data system tasks, including those with complex dependencies and workflow logic. Up until now it's been a component in the WAN Transport product my employer, Onion Networks, sells. They've agreed to let me open up the most generally-useful portions of the system and this is the place I'll be doing it. They've still got plans for parts of it that include productizing or monitizing or whatever it is people like that do, but I think I can get a lot of the good stuff out here under the Apache license.
Got the first pre-release builds with included demo posted. Check them out and let us know what you think in the forums or on the mailing list.
I got pulled into another project, but I've got cycles for working on this release again. The source is all cleaned up and ready to pre-release pending final approval. Should be up soon.
I got the mailing lists set up. I still haven't selected an archiver though. I'm not a huge fan of either pipermail or mhonarc, but I'm sure there's something good out there.
Over the next week or so I'll be getting final approval on the package I can open up, fleshing out the website, setting up source control, issue tracking, and all that stuff.
Meanwhile, I'll be working on a decent document explaining just what the heck AntFlow is -- I think some of the uses will be pretty compelling for even Java-phobe sysadmins. More on that soon.