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Java Development with Ant (Paperback)

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"A great resource . . . learn how to integrate Ant into [a] personal set of best practices for software configuration management solutions." -- slashdot.org

"Erik and Steve give you the answers to questions you didn't even know you have." -- Ted Neward, .NET & Java author and instructor

"Required reading for all Java developers . . . You will only need one Ant book if you buy this one." -- About.com Java Guide

"This should be required reading for all Java developers." -- Denver Java Users Group

"[A] must read for everyone using Ant in the development/build/deploy process for Java applications." -- Werner Ramaeker's Weblog

"[This] is essential for anyone serious about actually shipping Java applications. I wish I could say I wrote it." -- Stuart Halloway, chief technical officer, DevelopMentor, and author, Component Development for the Java Platform

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The most widely used build tool for Java projects, Ant is cross-platform, extensible, simple, and fast. It scales from small personal projects to large, multi-team J2EE projects. And, most importantly, it's easy to learn. Java Development with Ant systematically explores what Ant can do and how to apply it to your project. Whether you are new to Ant or an experienced user, this book will show you powerful and creative uses for Ant. The book emphasizes basic concepts you need to know to effectively use Ant starting with Ant's XML-driven build process. It leads you step-by-step through everything you need to know to compile, test, package, and deploy an application. It then guides you through the maze of more complex situations common in larger projects such as enterprise Java applications and Web Services. With this book you will gain access to a powerful tool to automatically build, test and deploy your Java software, no matter how simple or complex it might be.

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

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Paperback: 672 pages
Publisher: Manning Publications (August 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1930110588
ISBN-13: 978-1930110588
Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.6 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (32 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #344,836 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Java Testing Patterns by Jon Thomas in Back Matter
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3.0 out of 5 stars It is more about Ant than about what you can do with it..., July 23, 2003

By	Riccardo Audano (Chiavari, Italy) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very good programmers are often terrible authors.. as you will find out from both this book and the manning book on Struts. Having been written by Ant contributors and "junkies" it tends to be more of an "ant treatise" than a tutorial on how to use
it in the most common and useful situations. So buy it if you want a long and wordy description of of ant and all its quirks,
but you want lots of clean, short, to-the-point, easy to follow
examples you might get disappointed here. Also, be aware that this book is 500 pages long, and if learning routine web and business programming can be boring, wading through 500 pages about how to compile package deploy and test that code is boring beyond belief!

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of my top 5 Java books, January 3, 2006

By	Frank J. Kelly "Java Architect" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Ant is a great tool that lets you pretty much automate any process- whether Java build-related or not. This book is then THE one-and-only book to buy - it serves as a tutorial AND a reference. The author's breadth of knowledge on Ant is amazing and the examples he presents are wonderful.

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Ant AND great for other obscure utilities, January 18, 2003

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I never would have known about such time savers as Middlegen if I hadn't read this book.

It has better documentation on some of these other utilities than do the utilities themselves. For example, read this book instead of the CruiseControl documentation, if you need CruiseControl on your project.

It's also very well-written and organized, with just the right amount of examples - no tedious 10-page listings.

Much better than the O'Reilly lizard book. What's up with the lizard anyway? They had a ready-made animal cover in Ant, and they ignored it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference on Ant
I read the first 4 chapters of this book to get a basic understanding of Ant. Since my employer already uses Ant, the skills that I need is to understand an Ant build file and how... Read more

Published on May 30, 2007 by Yudha Herwono

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Sorry for the short review...

I was completely new to Ant before buying this book, now I feel like an expert. It's a very well structured book. Read more

Published on June 30, 2006 by J. Capcik

4.0 out of 5 stars Wow, I never would have thought ant was so rich
Ant to me was just a build script, nothing more or less. I got curious about what you can do with ant and figured, how could you make a full book with this topic. Read more

Published on June 2, 2005 by Max C. Anderson

5.0 out of 5 stars Still an excelent book
Almost in each project which I write I find this book to be valuebale.
If you are willing to put more time on ant than just to know the trivial parts, than you must read... Read more

Published on May 31, 2005 by D. Orbach

4.0 out of 5 stars More than just a book about how to use Ant
This book covers a lot more than just the mechanics of how to use a build tool (Ant). It has a lot of great "best practices" info and a lot of relevant examples. Read more

Published on May 25, 2005 by Michael S. Wolfson

2.0 out of 5 stars Long lists of Ant methods
This books main failing is that it ends up with Pages of listings of the methods that you can use in Ant which is not really why one buys a book in my opinion. Read more

Published on May 20, 2005 by Martin Brady

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Except the First Chapter
Ant (Another Neat Tool) is a build tool that facilitates building applications using Java. To use Ant, you construct a build file that then directs the various Java software... Read more

Published on October 14, 2004 by John Matlock

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Ant book available
This is by far the best Ant book on the market. The authors know Ant inside and out and are able to explain it's use. Notice I said "it's use". Read more

Published on September 11, 2004 by Bob Withers

4.0 out of 5 stars good book, a little lite on reference material
I really enjoyed reading this book for learning Ant. It covered everything I needed to get up to speed quickly. Read more

Published on June 28, 2004 by Chris Masterson

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
I had to come back to this book listing just to leave this review. I'm not finished with the book yet but I just love it. Read more

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