Ant

An open source tool from the Jakarta Project, Ant is used to put together all the pieces of an application. As Ant has grown in popularity, developers have expanded its use and functionality. Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, is a totally re-worked, revised and expanded look at this extraordinary tool. This edition now covers everything from downloading, installing and configuring Ant to using Ant with JUnit to test code, running Ant in the popular Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment), and scheduling builds in Unix and Windows. Developers also learn how to use Ant with JavaServer Pages (JSP) to build web applications, with Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) to build enterprise applications, and how to use Ant with XML.

Steve Holzner is an award-winning author who has been writing about Java topics since Java first appeared. He's a former PC Magazine contributing editor, and his many books have been translated into 18 languages around the world. His books sold more than 1.5 million copies, and many of his bestsellers have been on Java. Steve graduated from MIT and got his PhD at Cornell; he's been a very popular member of the faculty at both MIT and Cornell, teaching thousands of students over the years and earning an average student evaluation over 4.9 out of 5.0. He also runs his own software company and teaches week-long classes to corporate programmers on Java around the country.

Preface

ix

Getting Started

1

(31)

Ant's Origins

2

(1)

Getting Ant

2

(2)

Ant at Work

4

(2)

Anatomy of a Build File

6

(17)

Running Ant

23

(9)

Using Properties and Types

32

(28)

Using Properties to Control Tasks

32

(7)

Using Property Files

39

(5)

Handling Data Using Types

44

(16)

Building Java Code

60

(28)

Compiling Code

60

(6)

Getting Input from the User

66

(2)

Calling Other Ant Tasks

68

(4)

Importing Other Build Files

72

(2)

Documenting Code

74

(7)

Creating JAR Files

81

(3)

Setting Build Numbers

84

(1)

Setting Timestamps

85

(3)

Deploying Builds

88

(37)

Packaging Applications for Deployment

88

(11)

Preparing to Deploy

99

(3)

Deploying Applications

102

(16)

Scheduling Automatic Builds

118

(7)

Testing Builds with JUnit

125

(25)

Using JUnit

127

(10)

Running Test Cases

137

(5)

Testing in Batches

142

(2)

Running the Build File

144

(4)

Extending JUnit

148

(2)

Getting Source Code from CVS Repositories

150

(17)

Source Control and Ant

150

(3)

Logging In

153

(1)

Working with the Server

154

(7)

Getting Version Data

161

(1)

Creating Change Logs

161

(3)

Finding Changes Between Versions

164

(1)

Creating Patches

165

(2)

Executing External Programs

167

(17)

Executing Java Code

167

(5)

Executing External Programs

172

(7)

Performing Batch Execution

179

(2)

Multithreading Tasks

181

(1)

Setting Execution Order

182

(2)

Developing for the Web

184

(22)

Creating WAR Archives

184

(3)

Creating CAB Files

187

(1)

Creating Simple Web Deployment

188

(1)

Deploying with SCP

189

(3)

Deploying to Tomcat

192

(4)

Compiling JSPs

196

(4)

Deploying to EJB Containers

200

(6)

XML and XDoclet

206

(28)

Validating XML Documents

206

(5)

Loading Properties from XML Files

211

(2)

Creating Ant Task DTDs

213

(1)

Transforming XML Using XSLT

214

(4)

Using XDoclet

218

(12)

Developing Enterprise JavaBeans

230

(4)

Optional Tasks

234

(7)

Using Sound

234

(1)

Creating Splash Screens

235

(1)

Subtituting Text Using Regular Expressions

236

(2)

Handling Dependencies

238

(3)

Integrating Ant with Eclipse

241

(16)

Introducing Eclipse

241

(6)

Running Ant Build Files

247

(6)

Using a Different Version of Ant

253

(2)

Using the Ant View

255

(2)

Extending Ant

257

(34)

Creating a Simple Custom Ant Task

257

(3)

Extending the Task Class

260

(18)

Creating Custom Listeners

278

(2)

Creating Custom Loggers

280

(2)

Creating Custom Filters

282

(2)

Creating Custom Selectors

284

(2)

Creating New Types

286

(5)

Index

291

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