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://jakarta.apache.org/ant/faq.html |
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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 |
This book covers the following XP subjects:
Authors: | Richard Hightower and Nicholas Lesiecki |
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URL: | http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,047120708X,00.html |
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.
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://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant_in_anger.html |
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://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant_task_guidelines.html |
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/ |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
This article is a short introduction into the basic concepts of Ant.
Author: | Jayakrishnan Nair |
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URL: | http://varnam.org/articles/ant.html |
A tutorial about using JavaScript and XSLT with Ant.
Author: | Dylan Schiemann |
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URL: | http://www.sitepen.com/ant/javascript.html |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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/downloads/Ant.pdf |
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 |
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 |