Java Development with Ant eBook Download

What's inside:

* The new Ant 1.5 features

* Ant's datatypes and property handling

* JUnit testing and reporting

* Continuous integration techniques

* XDoclet for attribute-oriented programming

* EJB generation, building, and packaging

* Writing and testing native code

* Building Web Services with Apache Axis

* Deploying your system to multiple remote servers

* Using and writing

* Loggers

* Listeners

* Selectors

* Custom tasks


Great reference on Ant
I read the first 4 chapters of this book to get a basic understanding of Ant.

I was completely new to Ant before buying this book, now I feel like an expert.

I'm going to now be using Ant as my deployment tool in development and production, dealing with static content, CVS, Struts, and more.


One of my top 5 Java books
Ant is a great tool that lets you pretty much automate any process- whether Java build-related or not.

The key areas I found the book very helpful on were
1) JUnit integration & report creation (using XDoclet /JUnitReport)
2) Deployment-related activities
3) Breaking out commonly used Ant targets for reuse

But there is so much more - my edition has been well thumbed
and has many yellow post-it notes for quick lookup.

Based on what I've learned in this book I've been able to quickly and easily integrate the following components into my build process
1) Checkstyle (syntax checker)
2) PMD ("bad practice" checker)
3) JUnit & Clover (code coverage)
4) JDepend (Class interdependcy reporting)
5) Javadoc
6) An automated nightly build of the code and deployment to WebSphere

I can't say enough about this book - but I would be lost without it and thus am loathe to lend it. If you use Ant or WANT to use Ant then buy this book.


Wow, I never would have thought ant was so rich
Ant to me was just a build script, nothing more or less.

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