Ant: The Definitive Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)Considering all the Ant build possibilities, this book barely scratches the service. Half the book is nothing more than the API in alphabetical order. I would have liked to see examples that incorporated the optional Ant jar (JUnit), complex EJB builds, deployment on 3rd party application servers like Weblogic, and strategies dealing with multiple wars but these were no where to be found. It would have been nice if there was more discussion on best practices. In addition, the book is poorly written and reads like it was written overnight.
This book should be titled "An introduction to Ant and nothing more." I only wished that I saved my receipt. Go read 'Java Development With Ant'. It is far more comprehensive and 'Definitive'. At first I gave this book 2 stars but after reviewing 'Java Development With Ant' I realized this book was more lacking than I thought. Don't make the same mistake I did!

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Ant is the premier build-management tool for Java environments. Ant enables developers to define builds of complex Java applications using industry standard XML. Ant handles dependencies between the different components involved in a build, can check out source code as needed from source code control systems, and can deliver components such as JAR files and WAR files to client, middle-tier, and server machines. Ant is an open source project, and is platform independent.