Ant in Action

by Steve Loughran, Erik Hatcher

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, 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.

Genres: Technical, Programming

566 pages, Paperback

First published July 12, 2007

Reviews

[Craig Motlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is starting to get dated and the technology is borderline obsolete. However, if you have to work with ant then this book is required reading.

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent introduction to using Ant. Very readable. I'd previously only used Make, but after buying this book was able to create complex Ant build scripts with little extra practice.