Chapter 8. Putting it all together
| 8.1 | How to write good build files |
| 8.2 | Building the diary library |
| 8.3 | Adopting Ant |
| 8.4 | Building an existing project under Ant |
| 8.5 | Summary |
We’ve introduced the basic concepts, tasks, and types of Ant. We’ve shown how it reads build files containing targets and tasks, showing Ant what needs to be done to build a project. We’ve looked at Ant’s tasks, targets, properties, and datatypes, and we’ve shown you how to automate the build and compile, test, package, and distribute a Java project. You should now be able to create build files to accomplish the most common build-related tasks, such as <javac>, <copy>, <zip> and <jar>.
What we haven’t shown you is a single build file that incorporates all these things. ...
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