Java Development with Ant

673 Pages·2002·6.55 MB·English

by  Erik Hatcher

Java Development with Ant

Java Development
with Ant
ERIK HATCHER
STEVE LOUGHRAN
MANNING
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To my wife Carole and our two sons, Jakob and Ethan.
Thank you for taking care of me while I took care of this book.
Erik
To Bina and Alexander.
Thank you for being so patient during the long hours of this project.
Steve

brief contents
Part 1 Learning Ant 1
1 Introducing Ant 3
2 Getting started with Ant 23
3 Understanding Ant datatypes and properties 47
4 Testing with JUnit 85
5 Executing programs 111
6 Packaging projects 134
7 Deployment 163
8 Putting it all together 188
Part 2 Applying Ant 203
9 Using Ant in your development projects 205
10 Beyond Ant’s core tasks 234
11 XDoclet 260
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12 Developing for the web 278
13 Working with XML 317
14 Enterprise JavaBeans 333
15 Working with web services 355
16 Continuous integration 386
17 Developing native code 407
18 Production deployment 431
Part 3 Extending Ant 465
19 Writing Ant tasks 467
20 Extending Ant further 498
Appendices
A Installation 523
B XML primer as it applies to Ant 532
C IDE integration 536
D The elements of Ant style 544
E Ant task reference 561
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contents
foreword xxv
preface xxvii
acknowledgments xxix
about this book xxxi
about the authors xxxvi
about the cover illustration xxxvii
Part 1 Learning Ant 1
1 Introducing Ant 3
1.1 What is Ant? 3
What is a build process and why do you need one? 4
Why do we think Ant makes a great build tool? 4
1.2 The core concepts of Ant 5
An example project 7
1.3 Why use Ant? 10
Integrated development environments 10
Make 11 ✦ Other build tools 13
Up and running, in no time 14
1.4 The evolution of Ant 14
1.5 Ant and software development methodologies 16
eXtreme Programming 16
Rational Unified Process 17
1.6 Our example project 17
Documentation search engine—example Ant project 18
1.7 Yeah, but can Ant… 19
1.8 Beyond Java development 21
Web publishing engine 21 ✦ Simple workflow engine 21
Microsoft .NET and other languages 21
1.9 Summary 22
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