BEST BETS
August, 2002
Java Development With Ant
By Erik Hatcher
$30.57
"Java Development with Ant shows how to automate most of the drudgery involved with large Java projects..." "included a lot of great examples and practical advice covering the essentials of Ant, building, testing, and running code. Despite its size, the book is not full of.." "endless code listings or mundane command references, which are available for Ant elsewhere anyway..." "The first two chapters are great for a new Ant user..." "The first chapter told me want Ant is and the second helped me create my first build file. The third chapter.."
12 April, 2004
Professional JavaTM Tools for Extreme Programming : Ant, XDoclet, JUnit, Cactus, and Maven (Programmer to Programmer)
By Richard Hightower
$30.59
"to open-source development and was looking for a good reference to tools such as Ant, JUnit, Cactus, and Maven..."
14 July, 2003
Jakarta Pitfalls : Time-Saving Solutions for Struts, Ant, JUnit, and Cactus (Java Open Source Library) (Java Open Source Library)
By Bill Dudney
$28.00
"Whether you're a beginner or an expert on Struts, Ant or JUnit, this book will provide you all the items you should watch out for..."
15 December, 2001
Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Mastering Open Source Tools Including Ant, JUnit, and Cactus
By Richard Hightower
$27.19
"free! There are too many tools to list here, but they include the best-of-breed Ant build system, JUnit, HTTPUnit, ServletUnit and Cactus test frameworks, load and.." "If you want to get up to speed quickly and practically on a load of useful, powerful, tools.." "Everyone I've shown it to has wanted their own copy ....." "some, the more practical, that are very useful and necessary even if you don't want to make xp: the incremental test first programming, using JUnit, Cactus, HttpUnit.." "and continuous integration, using Ant..."
19 May, 2003
Extreme Programming with Ant: Building and Deploying Java Applications with JSP, EJB, XSLT, XDoclet, and JUnit
By Glenn Niemeyer
$23.79
"Consequently, the XP practices are merely used as a motivation to introduce new Ant features into the build process - and sometimes this feels rather far stretched..." "Also, the repeatedly mentioned "lead developer" coming to important decisions by himself feels quite contrary to XPs "Whole Team" practice. So the.." "book concentrates on covering Ant, and starts quite promising in this regard..." "script can evolve with the needs of a project is a nice idea and the introduction to Ant is concise and to the point..." "hand-made solution to implementing boolean attributes for custom tasks, even though Ant comes with a much more elegant inbuild mechanism. As an advanced "Ant build master",.."
22 October, 2002
Ant Developer's Handbook
By Kirk Pepperdine
$23.79
"This book is absolutely worthless as an ant reference..." "is one of the best books I have read to date on developing Java applications with ANT..." "Ant has become a widely used tool and should be part of every developer's toolkit..." "This book is a nice introduction for the developer who is unfamiliar with Ant and is looking to get started using it..." "If you are a developer who is experienced with Ant then this book will not be of much interest to you..."
01 September, 2003
Ant: The Java Build Tool in Practice (Programming Series)
By Bernd Matzke
$39.95
RATED POOR
15 May, 2002
Ant: The Definitive Guide
By Jesse Tilly
$23.77
"For the moment, let's ignore the fact that ant comes with a comprehensive manual. The book gives a nice overview and motivation.." "for ant, as well as a sample project which will help you get up to speed quickly..." "The book also mentioned that ant 2.0 was due out in 2002, but here it is 2004 and I only see 1.6..." "But ant does come with an excellent manual, which is up-to-date..." "of parameters for each task is better organized: it is in a table, it eschews the ant version for the parameter, and there is a Required column (instead of a cryptic.."
OUT-OF-PRINT
01 August, 2003
Professional Java Tools: Real World Ant, Junit, Cvs, Cactus, Bugzilla, Maven, Jmeter and Xdoctet
By D. Payne
$49.99
08 October, 2004
Core Java Tools: Programming With Ant, Junit, And Cactus
By Wellie Chao
$33.99
20 December, 2004
Ant Gems: Ant Gems
By James Fuller
$33.99
20 December, 2004
Ant Gems: Ant Gems
By James Fuller
$33.99
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