
- 600 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This second edition of a Manning bestseller has been revised and re-titled to fit the 'In Action' Series by Steve Loughran, an Ant project committer. Ant in Action introduces Ant and how to use it for test-driven Java application development. Ant itself is moving to v1.7, a major revision, at the end of 2006 so the timing for the book is right. A single application of increasing complexity, followed throughout the book, shows how an application evolves and how to handle the problems of building and testing. Reviewers have praised the book's coverage of large-projects, Ant's advanced features, and the details and depth of the discussion-all unavailable elsewhere.This is a major revision with the second half of the book completely new, including:
- How to Manage Big projects
- Library management
- Enterprise Java
- Continuous integration
- Deployment
- Writing new Ant tasks and datatypes
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Praise for the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Authors
- About the Cover Illustration
- Chapter 0. Introduction to the Second Edition
- Part 1. Learning Ant
- Chapter 1. Introducing Ant
- Chapter 2. A first Ant build
- Chapter 3. Understanding Ant datatypes and properties
- Chapter 4. Testing with JUnit
- Chapter 5. Packaging projects
- Chapter 6. Executing programs
- Chapter 7. Distributing our application
- Chapter 8. Putting it all together
- Part 2. Applying Ant
- Chapter 9. Beyond Ant’s core tasks
- Chapter 10. Working with big projects
- Chapter 11. Managing dependencies
- Chapter 12. Developing for the Web
- Chapter 13. Working with XML
- Chapter 14. Enterprise Java
- Chapter 15. Continuous integration
- Chapter 16. Deployment
- Part 3. Extending Ant
- Chapter 17. Writing Ant tasks
- Chapter 18. Extending Ant further
- Appendix A. Installation
- Appendix B. XML Primer
- Appendix C. IDE Integration
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings