Ant Developers Handbook

 

Ant Developers Handbook
Ant Developers Handbook
by Authors: Kirk Pepperdine , Alan Williamson , Joey Gibson , Andy Wu
Released: 22 October, 2002
ISBN: 0672324261
Paperback

Sales Rank: 254,313
List price: $34.99
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Ant Developers Handbook > Customer Review #1:
DO NOT BUY

This book is absolutely worthless as an ant reference. EVERY time that I go to read a particular section of the book for fine-grained information it has proven to be a disaster. The book is simply WRONG on many of its definitions and statements of functionality.

I have never taken the time to actually write a quick review, but fealt that I would be doing a huge disservice to fellow coders if I didnt in this case.

Heed my warning: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK.



Ant Developers Handbook > Customer Review #2:
Excellent book for Java Development

This is one of the best books I have read to date on developing Java applications with ANT. Id highly recomend it to anyone interested in saving time writting JAVA applications.

Ant Developers Handbook > Customer Review #3:
A good introduction to Ant

Ant has become a widely used tool and should be part of every developers toolkit. This book is a nice introduction for the developer who is unfamiliar with Ant and is looking to get started using it. If you are a developer who is experienced with Ant then this book will not be of much interest to you. The book starts with a nice introduction to Ant showing how to create and use a typical build script. The first three chapters cover the basics of Ant and the authors do a nice job of making Ant simple to understand. The next two chapters cover all the built-in and optional tasks that are part of Ant. This section is of limited use to the new Ant user. Since the tasks are listed in alphabetical order and broken out into separate chapters for built-in and optional tasks, you have to know what you are looking for in order to find it. It would have been nice to have a list of all the tasks with a brief description all in one or two pages which would have made it much easier to find a task. There is one brief chapter explaining how to write your own Ant tasks. Troubleshooting Ant scripts is followed by two chapters showing real world examples of using Ant. The book ends with a discussion of tool support. Conclusion: the authors have done a very nice job of explaining Ant for the novice Ant user.

 
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