Ant in Action: Covers Ant 1.7 - Softcover

Loughran, Steve; Hatcher, Erik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193239480X ISBN 13: 9781932394801

Publisher: Manning Publications, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 193239480X
• ISBN 13: 9781932394801
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 600