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Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
Soon after its launch, Ant succeeded in taking the Java world by storm, becoming the most widely used tool for building applications in Java environments. Like most popular technologies, Ant quickly went through a series of early revision cycles. With each new version, more functionality was added, and more complexity was introduced. Ant evolved from a simple-to-learn bui
...morePaperback, 316 pages
Published
April 20th 2005
by O'Reilly Media
(first published April 13th 2005)
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Ant is a java build tool that has pretty much become the standard way to build java applications. I've dabbled in it but figured a bit of immersion therapy would be useful.
The book covers version 1.6.1 and 1.7.0 is the current version. Fortunately, the amount of change is relatively minor. It's a decent book that goes into ant starting from a basic level and progressing to a moderate level of detail, I wouldn't call it "definitive". It is worthwhile, but it hardly goes into...more
The book covers version 1.6.1 and 1.7.0 is the current version. Fortunately, the amount of change is relatively minor. It's a decent book that goes into ant starting from a basic level and progressing to a moderate level of detail, I wouldn't call it "definitive". It is worthwhile, but it hardly goes into...more
This is quite a dry book for a dry subject.
Overall, the book does do a fairly effective job of disseminating the information required, but it does tend to come across mostly as 'the Ant Manual' and doesn't do much more than the Ant documentation pages.
This also means that it has been supplanted by these documentation pages as this book covers a version of Ant that has been superseded by a later version.
While this was probably a useful information resource when Ant...more
Overall, the book does do a fairly effective job of disseminating the information required, but it does tend to come across mostly as 'the Ant Manual' and doesn't do much more than the Ant documentation pages.
This also means that it has been supplanted by these documentation pages as this book covers a version of Ant that has been superseded by a later version.
While this was probably a useful information resource when Ant...more
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