Vulcan is a set of tools for facilitating the process of developing and deploying J2EE applications. It was created to provide functionality which was either not present or too complex in Java EE 5 platform.

About

Here is a list of things Vulcan can do for you.

• generating deployment descriptor (web.xml) entries based on class annotations (based on upcoming Servlet 3.0 specification)
• merging deployment descriptor files
• merging text files

Each feature can be used from command line or by using provided ant custom tasks.

The name of the project comes from mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(mythology)).