terminology:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/terminology.html

tutorials:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/tutorial.html

reference:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/reference.html

ant-tasks:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ant.html
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/use/retrieve.html


module can have multiple artifacts

    <configurations>
        ...
        <conf name="exe"/>
    </configurations>

    <dependencies>
        ...
        <dependency org="Clarabridge" name="build_morph" e:platform="${target.platform}" rev="latest.integration" conf="exe->lib" ext="${executable.suffix}" transitive="false" />
        ...
    </dependencies>

        <dependency org="Clarabridge" name="FactTuner" e:platform="${target.platform}" rev="latest.integration" conf="dependency-exe->publish" transitive="true">
            <include type="exe" />
        </dependency>

    ...
        <ivy:retrieve pattern="${target.dir}/${target.platform}/lib/[artifact].[ext]" conf="lib" type="lib" sync="true"/>
        <ivy:retrieve pattern="${target.dir}/${target.platform}/lib/[artifact].[ext]" conf="exe" type="exe" sync="false"/>





Articles:
http://olmex.blogspot.in/2012/04/ivy-beginners-guide.html
http://www.codetab.org/apache-ivy-tutorial/

Configurations:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ivyfile/configurations.html

ModuleConfig:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/tutorial/conf.html


<dependency .../>
  transitive="false" - to avoid transitive resolution

Ivycache
by default is at $HOME/.ivy2

<ivy:resolve> is automatically called by <ivy:cachepath ...>, <ivy:retrieve ...> if not directly specified.

<ivy:retrieve .../>
  sync="true" - to delete any extra files at lib dir
  type="jar"  - to copy jar-artifacts only
       "jar,bundle"
  pattern="myfolder/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]" - change location where to put retrieved files
    [organization]
    [module]
    [revision]
    [artifact]
    [type]
    [ext]
    [conf]


ivysettings.xml
  to override default settings
(ivy-...jar!/org/apache/ivy/core/settings/ivysettings.xml)
...
<ivysettings>
	<settings defaultResolver="default"/>
	<include url="${ivy.default.settings.dir}/ivysettings-public.xml"/>
	<include url="${ivy.default.settings.dir}/ivysettings-shared.xml"/>
	<include url="${ivy.default.settings.dir}/ivysettings-local.xml"/>
	<include url="${ivy.default.settings.dir}/ivysettings-main-chain.xml"/>
	<include url="${ivy.default.settings.dir}/ivysettings-default-chain.xml"/>
</ivysettings>


${ivy.default.ivy.user.dir} points to .ivy dir at user home.