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Ant: The Definitive Guide

By
Eric M. Burke, Jesse Tilly
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
May 2002
Pages:
288

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  1. Ant: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition - April 2005
  2. Ant: The Definitive Guide - May 2002
Description
Ant is the premier build-management tool for Java environments. Ant is part of Jakarta, the Apache Software Foundation's open source Java project repository. Ant is written entirely in Java, and is platform independent. Using XML, a Java developer describes the modules involved in a build, and the dependencies between those modules. Ant then does the rest, compiling components as necessary in order to build the application.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Ant Jumpstart

    1. Files and Directories

    2. The Ant Buildfile

    3. Running Ant

    4. Ant Command-Line Reference

    5. Buildfile Outline

    6. Learning More

  2. Chapter 2 Installation and Configuration

    1. The Distribution

    2. Installation

    3. Configuration

  3. Chapter 3 The Buildfile

    1. Why XML?

    2. Ant Building Blocks

    3. An Example Project and Buildfile

    4. The Buildfile Execution Process

    5. AINASL: Ant Is Not a Scripting Language

    6. Buildfile Authoring Issues

  4. Chapter 4 Ant DataTypes

    1. DataTypes Defined

    2. XML Attribute Conventions

    3. Argument DataType

    4. Environment DataType

    5. FileList DataType

    6. FileSet DataType

    7. PatternSet DataType

    8. FilterSet DataType

    9. Path DataType

    10. Mapper DataType

  5. Chapter 5 User-Written Tasks

    1. The Need for Custom Tasks

    2. Ant's Task Model

    3. The Task Life Cycle

    4. An Example Through Analysis: The jar Task

    5. Miscellaneous Task Topics

  6. Chapter 6 User-Written Listeners

    1. The BuildEvent Class

    2. The BuildListener Interface

    3. An Example: XmlLogger

    4. The Parallel Problem

  7. Chapter 7 Core Tasks

    1. Task Summary

    2. Common Types and Attributes

    3. Project and Target

    4. Core Task Reference

    5. ant

    6. antcall

    7. antstructure

    8. apply

    9. available

    10. chmod

    11. condition

    12. copy

    13. copydir

    14. copyfile

    15. cvs

    16. cvspass

    17. delete

    18. deltree

    19. dependset

    20. ear

    21. echo

    22. exec

    23. execon

    24. fail

    25. filter

    26. fixcrlf

    27. genkey

    28. get

    29. gunzip

    30. gzip

    31. jar

    32. java

    33. javac

    34. javadoc

    35. mail

    36. mkdir

    37. move

    38. parallel

    39. patch

    40. pathconvert

    41. property

    42. record

    43. rename

    44. replace

    45. rmic

    46. sequential

    47. signjar

    48. sleep

    49. sql

    50. style

    51. tar

    52. taskdef

    53. touch

    54. tstamp

    55. typedef

    56. unjar

    57. untar

    58. unwar

    59. unzip (also unjar and unwar)

    60. uptodate

    61. war

    62. zip

  8. Chapter 8 Optional Tasks

    1. Task Summary

    2. Optional Task Reference

    3. antlr

    4. blgenclient

    5. cab

    6. cccheckin

    7. cccheckout

    8. ccmcheckin

    9. ccmcheckintask

    10. ccmcheckout

    11. ccmcreatetask

    12. ccmreconfigure

    13. ccuncheckout

    14. ccupdate

    15. csc

    16. ddcreator

    17. depend

    18. ejbc

    19. ejbjar

    20. ftp

    21. icontract

    22. ilasm

    23. iplanet-ejbc

    24. javacc

    25. javah

    26. jdepend

    27. jjtree

    28. jlink

    29. jpcoverage

    30. jpcovmerge

    31. jpcovreport

    32. junit

    33. junitreport

    34. maudit

    35. mimemail

    36. mmetrics

    37. mparse

    38. native2ascii

    39. netrexxc

    40. p4change

    41. p4counter

    42. p4edit

    43. p4have

    44. p4label

    45. p4reopen

    46. p4revert

    47. p4submit

    48. p4sync

    49. propertyfile

    50. pvcs

    51. renameext

    52. rpm

    53. script

    54. sound

    55. starteam

    56. stylebook

    57. telnet

    58. test

    59. vsscheckin

    60. vsscheckout

    61. vssget

    62. vsshistory

    63. vsslabel

    64. wljspc

    65. wlrun

    66. wlstop

    67. xmlvalidate

  1. Appendix A The Future of Ant

    1. Ant2

    2. Ant1 RIP 2002?

  2. Appendix B Ant Solutions

    1. Testing Library Availability

    2. Cleaning Up Does More Than Keep Things Neat

    3. Using Ant to Consolidate Libraries

    4. Documenting the Buildfile's Targets

    5. Setting Properties Outside of the Buildfile

    6. Using pathconvert

    7. Usage Statements

    8. Forking Processes

    9. Using Cascading Projects and Buildfiles

  3. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
Ant: The Definitive Guide
By:
Eric M. Burke, Jesse Tilly
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
May 2002
Pages:
288
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-00184-1
| ISBN 10:
0-596-00184-3
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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of Ant: The Definitive Guide is a horned lizard. There are 13 species of the horned lizard in North America. Horned lizards prefer a dry, warm climate, such as the desert or a dry woodland, and they can be found in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and New Mexico. Adults grow to 3-5 inches. They depend on their environment to control their body temperature, and use burrows and shade to prevent overheating. The horned lizard has a wide, flat body ideal for desert camouflage, and a short neck and short legs. It has spines on its body and prominent horns on its head. It is also known as the horny "toad."

Despite the horned lizards' fierce appearance, they are not aggressive. Their primary diet consists of ants, although they sometimes eat beetles, grasshoppers, and other insects, which they catch with their long tongues. The horned lizards' first line of defense from predators is their camouflage, but they are also known to hiss and inflate their bodies to appear more intimidating. As a last resort, they have the ability to squirt blood from the corners of their eyes in an attempt to confuse attackers. In Texas and Oklahoma, horned lizards are considered a threatened species. It is illegal to possess a horned lizard without a scientific permit. More information on the conservation of horned lizards is available at http://www.hornedlizards.org. Colleen Gorman was the production editor and proofreader, and Mary Brady was the copyeditor for Ant: The Definitive Guide. Linley Dolby and Jane Ellin provided quality control. Nancy Crumpton wrote the index.

Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font. David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted into FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Colleen Gorman.

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