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Book Description

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

Table of Contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Dedication
  3. Brief Table of Contents
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Praise for the First Edition
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Foreword to the First Edition
  8. Preface to the First Edition
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. About this Book
  11. About the Authors
  12. About the Cover Illustration
  13. Chapter 0. Introduction to the Second Edition
  14. Part 1. Learning Ant
  15. Chapter 1. Introducing Ant
  16. Chapter 2. A first Ant build
  17. Chapter 3. Understanding Ant datatypes and properties
  18. Chapter 4. Testing with JUnit
  19. Chapter 5. Packaging projects
  20. Chapter 6. Executing programs
  21. Chapter 7. Distributing our application
  22. Chapter 8. Putting it all together
  23. Part 2. Applying Ant
  24. Chapter 9. Beyond Ant’s core tasks
  25. Chapter 10. Working with big projects
  26. Chapter 11. Managing dependencies
  27. Chapter 12. Developing for the Web
  28. Chapter 13. Working with XML
  29. Chapter 14. Enterprise Java
  30. Chapter 15. Continuous integration
  31. Chapter 16. Deployment
  32. Part 3. Extending Ant
  33. Chapter 17. Writing Ant tasks
  34. Chapter 18. Extending Ant further
  35. Appendix A. Installation
  36. Appendix B. XML Primer
  37. Appendix C. IDE Integration
  38. Index
  39. List of Figures
  40. List of Tables
  41. List of Listings