Ant in Action: Second Edition of Java Development with Ant

by Erik Hatcher, Steve Loughran

Overview

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

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781638352082
Publisher:	Manning
Publication date:	06/30/2007
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	600
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Steve Loughran has been an active user and developer of Ant since the year 2000, a committer on the project since 2001, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation since 2004. He regularly lectures on the problems of big-system builds, distributed testing, and deployment. He is a research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, UK.

Erik Hatcher is an active Ant project developer and maintains jGuru's Ant FAQ and Forum. Erik has written articles for WebReview.com, IBM developerWorks, and JavaPro. His other open-source efforts currently include Lucene, XDoclet, and his own blogger, BlogScene. He is also the co-author of Manning's Lucene in Action. Erik lives in Charlottesville, VA.