Ant in Action is a book about building, testing and deploying Java applications using Ant and related tools. You can view is a guide to modern Java development tools and processes, or a software engineering book in disguise.
There are eighteen chapters in the book:
- Introduction
- A first Ant build
- Understanding Ant datatypes and properties
- Testing with JUnit
- Packaging projects
- Executing programs
- Distributing our application
- Putting it all together
- Beyond Ant's core tasks
- Working with big projects
- Managing dependencies
- Developing for the Web
- Working with XML
- Enterprise Java
- Continuous Integration
- Deployment
- Writing Ant tasks
- Extending Ant further
Please check the Errata section for an ongoing list of errors and clarifications. There is also a discussion board
run by the publisher, in which book-related topics are discussed.