Part 2. Applying Ant
In the first part of this book, we introduced Ant, using it to compile, package and redistribute a library. In chapters 9 to 16, we will use that library as the basis for a web application, and later an Enterprise Java application, showing how Ant can rise to the challenges such applications entail. To build and test such applications, we need to automate many more activities, from managing builds that span more than one build file, to setting up the database and application server before we can deploy our application and run our tests.
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