Ant
A Minimalistic Guide to Java Development Using Jak, Ant, Ant User Mailing LIst Archive, Ant-contrib project, AntForm, Anthill, CruiseControl, DTD for Ant, Grand, Incremental Development with Ant and JUnit
A Complete Makefile Setup for Java
Comprehensive makefile for building Java class files, RMI stubs and skeletons, JNI header files, JAR archives. [Freeware]
experimentalstuff.com: A Make Tool for the Java La
An automated dependency analysis tool, which acts a drop-in replacement for javac, from Sun's skunkworks. It maintains a dependency database to only compile the minimum necessary. [Freeware]
JavaDeps
Automatic dependency tracking in Java. [Open Source, GPL]
JFig Java Configuration Management Tool
A Configuration utility that provides simple, flexible and powerful functionality for managing one or more configurations in a java environment. It uses a combination of a hierarchy of configuration files, substitution variables and property variables. [Open source, GPL]
JMK - Make in Java
Utility for maintaining files in a consistent state, designed to support the task of writing platform independent make files. [LGPL]
Viewtier Devenv
A simple command-line development environment manager that allows reproducible Java builds. [Shareware]