I’ve just completed a integration with Apache Ant which is “a Java-based build tool”. It is now possible to send messages to ESME that describe the progress of your build steps. This is especially useful when ESME is being in development projects where individual developers can be made aware of the status of various-build related actions. For example, a development team could be informed that a build is broken or if it is successful.

There was already standard actions in ant to send emails but I thought ESME integration might be more useful.

An example build.xml file and the simple Java class that sends ESME messages (based on the ESME java API) are present in the wiki on the Google Code site. 

The same model and code could probably be used for Apache Maven - a software project management and comprehension tool- as well.