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 Chapter 1 Introducing Ant - In this first chapter, I will give you an overview of Ant so that even someone who has never come across it before will be up to speed on what Ant is, why it was created, and why it is such a useful tool.Chapter 2 Installing Ant - Ant is available in binary form as compiled Java classes that you download to your computer and store in your file system. Chapter 3 Using Ant - This chapter will cover running Ant from the command line and the basics of build files. This discussion will include those XML elements in a build file that are not tasks and the <property> task, mainly because it is such an important task that it is integral to almost any build file. Chapter 4 Examining Ant’s Types - This chapter continues the examination of the build file, as does the next chapter, and explores the final set of nontask XML elements available to you. Chapter 5 Building a Project - This chapter will deal with the initial stages of the project where you take the raw building blocks of an application and turn them into a packaged application for distribution or immediate use. Chapter 6 Deploying an Application - In this chapter, you will create various distributions for your application that include zip and tar files for the documentation, source code, stand-alone application, web application, and entire binary distribution. Chapter 7 Running an Application - This chapter will cover the relevant Ant tasks so that you can run external applications from within your build process. Chapter 8 Testing an Application - In this chapter, you’ll look at the JUnit testing framework and how to integrate it into Ant. Chapter 9 Using Ant in Large Projects - This chapter will take you through the issues you must consider when working with large, complex builds. Chapter 10 Writing Custom Tasks - In this chapter, you’ll look at an Ant task’s life cycle, its API, and some examples of custom tasks. Chapter 11 Extending Ant - This is not the end to Ant’s extensions; I’ll cover some of the others in this chapter, as well as some aspects of Ant you won’t use during the normal course of a build but are useful nonetheless. Chapter 12 Using the Ant API - In this chapter, I’ll show how to build command-line classes with a main() method. These classes will use the Ant API to simplify tasks that can be tedious to implement. Download free pdf ebook on networking: Pro Apache Ant - Apress
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