Java Development with Ant Review

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(More customer reviews)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 pagesabout how to compile package deploy and test that code is boring beyond belief!

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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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