Android Development Software: Apache Ant, Perst, Eclipse, Itsnat, Rhomobile, Appcelerator Titanium, Javafx Mobile, Moblyng, Phonegap

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Chapters: Apache Ant, Perst, Eclipse, Itsnat, Rhomobile, Appcelerator Titanium, Javafx Mobile, Moblyng, Phonegap. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Apache Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes. It is similar to Make but is implemented using the Java language, requires the Java platform, and is best suited to building Java projects. The most immediately noticeable difference between Ant and Make is that Ant uses XML to describe the build process and its dependencies, whereas Make has its Makefile format. By default the XML file is named build.xml. Ant is an Apache project. It is open source software, and is released under the Apache Software License. Ant ("Another Neat Tool") was conceived by James Duncan Davidson while turning a product from Sun into open source. That product, Sun's reference JSP/Servlet engine, later became Apache Tomcat. A proprietary version of make was used to build it on the Solaris Operating Environment, but in the open source world there was no way of controlling which platform was used to build Tomcat. Ant was created as a simple platform-independent tool to build Tomcat from directives in an XML "build file." From this humble beginning, the tool has gone on to become more widespread than the Tomcat product for which it was created. Ant (version 1.1) was officially released as a stand-alone product on July 19, 2000. Several proposals for an Ant version 2 have been made, such as AntEater by James Duncan Davidson, Myrmidon by Peter Donald and Mutant by Conor MacNeill, none of which were able to find large acceptance with the developer community. Today, Ant is the build tool used by most Java development projects . For example, most open source developers include build.xml files with their distributi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=43889

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First published May 3, 2010