What is Ivy?
Ivy is an evergreen climbing vine in the genus Hedera. A number of vines within this genus are colloquially referred to as “ivies,” and some plants outside this genus are sometimes confusingly called “ivy” as well, perhaps most notably poison ivy. Ivy has been cultivated for centuries as an ornamental plant, and some people find it quite attractive, although others have raised concerns about ivy, citing that it can become quite invasive, especially in areas where the plant lacks natural biological controls. Several traits are common to the ivies, allowing people to easily identify them. These vines have very woody stems, periodically marked with adhering discs which put out roots, allowing ivy to grip its substrate. The plants also have palmately lobed leaves, which may be solid or variegated, depending on species and cultivar, and they produce small umbels of green flowers which mature into berries in the fall and winter. As an ornamental, ivy certainly has some advantages. It is very
Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies. It is characterized by the following: • flexibility and configurability – Ivy is essentially process agnostic and is not tied to any methodology or structure. Instead it provides the necessary flexibility and configurability to be adapted to a broad range of dependency management and build processes. • tight integration with Apache Ant – while available as a standalone tool, Ivy works particularly well with Apache Ant providing a number of powerful Ant tasks ranging from dependency resolution to dependency reporting and publication. Ivy is open source and released under a very permissive Apache License.Ivy has a lot of powerful features, the most popular and useful being its flexibility, integration with ant, and its strong transitive dependencies management engine.The transitive dependencies management is a feature which let you get dependencies of your dependencies, transitively. In order
Ivy Professional School, the exclusive training and education wing of Kolkata’s biggest upcoming IT SEZ, is a brainchild of a group of professionals with extensive global exposure. Just like the meaning of the word Ivy (a tree with evergreen leaves which grows just upwards), the curators have created a unique learning platform which exceeds global standards of education to prepare knowledge professionals equipped with skill sets necessary to excel in a globally competitive IT/ITeS sector.
