Ant reference book

[Andrew Zeon <An...@hothouse.com.au>]

Hi,

I'm thinking of buying an Ant reference book. Can you give me some
recommendations? 

Thanks.

Re: Ant reference book

[Steve Loughran <st...@iseran.com>]

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From: "Erik Hatcher" <ja...@ehatchersolutions.com>
To: "Ant Users List" <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 05:27
Subject: Re: Ant reference book


> On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 05:55  AM, Herr Christian Wolfgang
> Hujer wrote:
> > I have the small and the big Ant books from O'Reilly. Usually I'd
> > recommend
> > O'Reilly, but, though these are very good, they don't explain much of
> > Ant's
> > additional tasks. I've heard there's an Ant book out there that even
> > devotes
> > two chapters on XDoclet. I'd recommend at least taking a look at that
> > one,
> > just for hearing that it also covers XDoclet.
>
> Two books on Ant from O'Reilly?  Really?  I have three (well, ok, I
> co-wrote one of them) different books: the Sam's book, the O'Reilly
> one, and the one Steve and I wrote.

One will be the German, Ant Kurtz und Gut, I guess.

Also, Java tools for Extreme Programming covers Ant (1.3 or 1.4, I forget),
along with junit, cactus, and httpunit...not as much on ant as the others,
but more on testing (and those bits havent dated much yet). Has a bias
towards EJB, which may or may not be your thing :). I also see on Amazon two
more books up and coming on the whole open source java toolchain; these will
be breadth rather than depth books, I suspect.

-Steve

Re: Ant reference book

[Erik Hatcher <ja...@ehatchersolutions.com>]

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 05:55  AM, Herr Christian Wolfgang 
Hujer wrote:
> I have the small and the big Ant books from O'Reilly. Usually I'd 
> recommend
> O'Reilly, but, though these are very good, they don't explain much of 
> Ant's
> additional tasks. I've heard there's an Ant book out there that even 
> devotes
> two chapters on XDoclet. I'd recommend at least taking a look at that 
> one,
> just for hearing that it also covers XDoclet.

Two books on Ant from O'Reilly?  Really?  I have three (well, ok, I 
co-wrote one of them) different books: the Sam's book, the O'Reilly 
one, and the one Steve and I wrote.

I could give you the sales pitch on why ours is the best, but that is a 
pretty biased opinion and I wouldn't take an authors opinion alone 
either :).  Check the reviews at Amazon, that should tell you the 
bigger picture.  Also, Steve and I are both very active Ant committers, 
which tells you that the information there is "directly from the 
source" (literally... the number of bugs fixed in Ant during the 
writing process is surely in the double digits).

Our book includes a complete chapter on XDoclet, as well as several 
other usages of XDoclet for web development and EJB development.  In 
fact, the entire appendix E Ant Task Reference was generated with 
XDoclet.  Look in the latest Ant binary distribution in the docs 
directory and you'll see Appendix E there - we donated it to the Ant 
project.

	Erik

Re: Ant reference book

[Herr Christian Wolfgang Hujer <Ch...@itcqis.com>]

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Am Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2003 05:47 schrieb Andrew Zeon:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking of buying an Ant reference book. Can you give me some
> recommendations?
>
> Thanks.

I have the small and the big Ant books from O'Reilly. Usually I'd recommend 
O'Reilly, but, though these are very good, they don't explain much of Ant's 
additional tasks. I've heard there's an Ant book out there that even devotes 
two chapters on XDoclet. I'd recommend at least taking a look at that one, 
just for hearing that it also covers XDoclet.

My 2 cents

Bye
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