Resources
FAQs
At Ant's website
Starting with the release of Ant 1.4 the Ant's FAQ is bundled with the distribution, the most recent version can always be found at the website.
FAQ: | http://ant.apache.org/faq.html |
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jGuru
jGuru hosts an interactive Ant discussion forum and FAQ system
Forum: | http://www.jguru.com/forums/home.jsp?topic=Ant |
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FAQ: | http://www.jguru.com/faq/home.jsp?topic=Ant |
FAQ about Borland Application Server tasks
Benoit Moussaud, the original author of the Borland Application Server specific EJB tasks has put together a FAQ for this specific subtask.
FAQ: | http://www.moussaud.org/ejbjar.html |
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WIKIs
Apache
The ASF provides a Wiki for several topics.
Main page: | http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi |
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Ant main page: | http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?AntProjectPages |
Books
Listed by descending publication date.
Extreme Programming with Ant
This book shows how to implement an XP project using Ant 1.5.3, and many other 3rd party tools. Covers:
- The fundamentals of Ant: concepts, core and optional tasks
- How to write custom Ant components, including custom Tasks, Loggers, Listeners, Input Handlers, Selectors, Filters, Mappers and Data Types
- Mitigating risks by creating spike tests with Ant buildfiles
- Add CVS version control and testing with JUnit
- Automate nightly builds and reporting
- Deploy applications dynamically using XDoclet
- Enforcing Code Standards with Jalopy, PMD, CheckStyle, iContract, JDepend
- Using Remote Ant (Rant) and CruiseControl
- Generating project documentation
- Adapting an XP process for use by other teams or across an enterprise
- Custom Task examples to generating UML diagrams, creating reports and metrics on-the-fly
- Follows a case-study of a team that implements an XP Project
Authors: | Glenn Niemeyer and Jeremy Poteet |
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URL: | http://www.sams.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id=%7BFB825A48-BC04-4C55-BD8C-DF93C6BBF920%7D |
Ant. Das Java-Build-Tool in der Praxis
A German language book on Ant that covers Ant 1.5. This is the original description:
Das Build-Tool Ant ist das Open-Source-Werkzeug, das den Entwicklungsprozess einer Java- oder J2EE-Anwendung wesentlich vereinfacht. Gesteuert durch XML-basierte Skripte f�hrt es nahezu alle Aufgaben aus, die nach dem Kodieren einer Anwendung anfallen.
Some topics:
- creating archives (zip, jar)
- call the java compiler
- edit property files
- file operation
- source code control systems
Authors: | Bernd Matzke |
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URL: | http://www.addison-wesley.de/main/main.asp?page=home/bookdetails&ProductID=13459 |
Java Development with Ant
Covers Ant 1.5, including:
- The new Ant 1.5 features
- Ant's datatypes and property handling
- JUnit testing and reporting
- Continuous integration techniques
- XDoclet for attribute-oriented programming
- EJB generation, building, and packaging
- Writing and testing native code
- Building Web Services with Apache Axis
- Deploying your system to multiple remote servers
- Using and writing
- Loggers
- Listeners
- Selectors
- Custom tasks
Authors: | Erik Hatcher and Steve Loughran |
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URL: | http://www.manning.com/antbook/ |
Ant: The Definitive Guide
Covers Ant release 1.4.1.
Authors: | Jesse E. Tilly and Eric M. Burke |
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URL: | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/anttdg/ |
Ant. Kurz und Gut.
A German language short reference for Ant that covers Ant 1.4. This is the original description:
Ant kurz & gut enthält eine vollständige Referenz der Built-in Tasks und ihrer jeweiligen Attribute sowie kurze Beispiele für ihre Verwendung. Daneben bietet das Buch eine knappe Einführung in die Arbeit mit Ant und eine Erläuterung der Ant-Basiselemente (Projekte, Properties, Targets und Tasks). Behandelt werden außerdem grundlegende Konzepte wie Filesets, Patternsets und Pfadstrukturen, das Schreiben eigener Tasks, die Aufruf-Syntax und Optional Tasks.
Author: | Stefan Edlich |
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URL: | http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3897212412/ |
Java Tools for eXtreme Programming
This book covers the following XP subjects:
- Automated unit and functional testing
- Continuous integration through build and deployment automation
- The value of refactoring and continuous integration
- How Ant, JUnit, JUnitPerf, Cactus, HTTPUnit, and JMeter can be used to achieve the goals of the XP methodology
Authors: | Richard Hightower and Nicholas Lesiecki |
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URL: | http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,047120708X,00.html |
Articles and Presentations
The following sections list articles and presentations written about Apache Ant. If you've written something that should be included, please post it to one of the mailing lists.
Articles
Ant in Anger: Using Ant in a Production Development System
This document describes strategies and some basic examples of how to use Ant in larger team development projects.
Author: | Steve Loughran |
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URL: | http://ant.apache.org/ant_in_anger.html |
Ant Task Guidelines
This document describes how to write custom Ant tasks, and how to submit them to potentially be included in Ant.
Author: | Steve Loughran |
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URL: | http://ant.apache.org/ant_task_guidelines.html |
Automating the build and test process
This article demonstrates an approach to the automated build and test process. Working with Ant 1.3 and the JUnit test framework, it shows how to automate a process that captures pertinent information about each test suite run, generates an attractive report, and e-mails the report.
Author: | Erik Hatcher |
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URL: | http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-junitmail/ |
Incremental development with Ant and JUnit
This article explores the benefits of unit testing with Ant and JUnit, detailing how to develop automated unit tests and integrate them into your build process.
Author: | Malcolm Davis |
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URL: | http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ant/?dwzone=java |
Automate your build process using Java and Ant
This article provides an introduction to using Ant with some basic examples and by highlighting some of the important tasks.
Author: | Michael Cymerman |
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URL: | http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant.html |
Short tutorial in Cactus' (formerly J2EEUnit) documentation
There is a short tutorial on how to use Ant in Cactus' documentation. It has a slant towards build files that will be used with Cactus.
Author: | Cactus development team |
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URL: | http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/howto_ant_primer.html |
Developing custom Ant tasks with VisualAge for Java
This article outlines how to integrate Ant into VisualAge for Java, and how to write and debug custom tasks using the IDE and the integrated debugger.
Author: | Glenn McAllister |
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URL: | http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document2366?OpenDocument&p=1&BCT=1&Footer=1 |
Automated builds with VisualAge for Java and Ant
This article shows how you can perform command line builds with a VisualAge for Java repository.
Author: | Glenn McAllister |
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URL: | http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4366?OpenDocument&p=1&BCT=3&Footer=1 |
Ant: A Build Tool from the Jakarta Project
This article is from the "Best Practices" section of Sun's Dot-Com Builder Site.
Author: | Laura Geele Wang |
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URL: | http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp |
Making a Mountain Out of an Anthill
This article is from the June 2001 issue of the Java Developer' Journal. You need to be a registered JDJ subscriber to view this article.
Author: | Neal Ford |
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URL: | http://www.sys-con.com/java/archivesa.cfm?volume=06&issue=06 |
Using Ant and Weblogic EJBs
This article describes how to use Ant to create Weblogic EJBs, and some workarounds for issues you may encounter.
Author: | Jesse E. Tilly |
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URL: | http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/06/25/antejb.html |
Using JavaScript with Ant
A tutorial about using JavaScript and XSLT with Ant.
Author: | Dylan Schiemann |
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URL: | http://www.sitepen.com/ant/javascript.html |
Building with Ant
Series of articles that describe a framework for web application development based on Ant and JUnit.
Author: | Alex Chaffee |
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URL: |
Introduction: http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12065_989631,00.html Directory Structure: http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12082_994991,00.html Deployment and Distribution: http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12077_998241,00.html |
Developing with JAXB and Ant
Series of articles that shows how to use Ant together with the Java API for XML Binding (JAXB).
Author: | Joseph Shelby |
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URL: |
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/03/06/jaxant1.html http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/03/13/jaxbant2.html |
Presentations
Ant - presented to the Tucson Java Users Group
A PowerPoint technical overview presentation on Ant. Comes complete with a straightforward example demonstrating code compilation, JAR'ing, JUnit testing, JUnit reporting, and Zipping a distribution. A few advanced topics are touched upon like property immutabality and using <antcall> to get around it, build listeners, and writing custom tasks.
Author: | Erik Hatcher |
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URL: | http://erik.hatcher.net/ant-jug.zip |
Ant Build Tool
A PowerPoint presentation on Ant 1.2. It provides a basic overview of Ant's capabilities.
Author: | Patrick Chanezon |
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URL: | http://people.netscape.com/chanezon/tech/ant/ant_preso.ppt |
Ant
A detailed Ant 1.3 PowerPoint presentation, made at the St. Louis Java Users Group meeting in March 2001. Includes a detailed build file and basic descriptions of all the built in and optional tasks. Updated for Ant 1.4 in October 2001. Available in PDF format now.
Author: | Mark Volkmann |
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URL: | http://www.ociweb.com/jnb/files/Ant.pdf |
Modern Development Crises
This presentation is an overview of the current state of software development today. There are a couple of slides that briefly cover Ant.
Author: | Steve Loughran |
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URL: | http://www.iseran.com/Steve/modern_development_processes.html |
When Web Services Go Bad
A presentation from the Web Services DevCon in March 2002.
Author: | Steve Loughran |
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URL: | http://www.iseran.com/Steve/papers/when_web_services_go_bad.html |