Summary Eclipse offers the possibility to build plug-ins automatically outside the Eclipse IDE, which is called "headless build". Eclipse itself is built headless and since Eclipse is an assembly of plug-ins, this feature is also available for any other p
Paul D. Smith has much information about GNU make,
including Paul's Rules of Makefiles, Advanced Auto-Dependency Generation and Multi-Architecture Builds.
SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler cache
Better Builds with Maven is written by Vincent Massol, Jason van Zyl and other key contributors of the Maven community and combines detailed explanations and code examples to walk you through improving your software development process with Maven 2.0.
Pulse is an automated build or continuous integration server. Pulse regularly checks out your project's source code from your SCM, builds the project and reports on the results. A project build typically involves compiling the source code and running test