Starting with the release of Ant 1.4 the Ant's FAQ is
bundled with the distribution, the most recent version can
always be found at the website.
jGuru hosts an interactive Ant discussion forum and FAQ system
Listed by descending publication date.
Java Development with Ant
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Covers Ant 1.5, including:
- The new Ant 1.5 features
- Ant's datatypes and property handling
- JUnit testing and reporting
- Continuous integration techniques
- XDoclet for attribute-oriented programming
- EJB generation, building, and packaging
- Writing and testing native code
- Building Web Services with Apache Axis
- Deploying your system to multiple remote servers
- Using and writing
- Loggers
- Listeners
- Selectors
- Custom tasks
Ant: The Definitive Guide
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Covers Ant release 1.4.1.
A German language short reference for Ant that covers Ant
1.4. This is the original description:
Ant kurz & gut enthält eine vollständige Referenz der Built-in Tasks
und ihrer jeweiligen Attribute sowie kurze Beispiele für ihre Verwendung.
Daneben bietet das Buch eine knappe Einführung in die Arbeit mit Ant und
eine Erläuterung der Ant-Basiselemente (Projekte, Properties, Targets und Tasks).
Behandelt werden außerdem grundlegende Konzepte wie Filesets, Patternsets und
Pfadstrukturen, das Schreiben eigener Tasks, die Aufruf-Syntax und Optional Tasks.
Java Tools for eXtreme Programming
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This book covers the following XP subjects:
- Automated unit and functional testing
- Continuous integration through build and deployment automation
- The value of refactoring and continuous integration
- How Ant, JUnit, JUnitPerf, Cactus, HTTPUnit, and JMeter
can be used to achieve the goals of the XP methodology
The following sections list articles and presentations written about Apache Ant. If
you've written something that should be included, please post it to one
of the mailing lists.
Ant in Anger: Using Ant in a Production Development System
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This document describes strategies and some basic examples of how to
use Ant in larger team development projects.
This document describes how to write custom Ant tasks, and how to submit
them to potentially be included in Ant.
Automating the build and test process
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This article demonstrates an approach to the automated build and test process. Working with Ant 1.3 and the JUnit test framework, it shows how to automate a process that captures pertinent information about each test suite run, generates an attractive report, and e-mails the report.
Incremental development with Ant and JUnit
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This article explores the benefits of unit testing with Ant and
JUnit, detailing how to develop automated unit tests and integrate them
into your build process.
Automate your build process using Java and Ant
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This article provides an introduction to using Ant with some basic
examples and by highlighting some of the important tasks.
Short tutorial in Cactus' (formerly J2EEUnit) documentation
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There is a short tutorial on how to use Ant in Cactus'
documentation. It has a slant towards build files that will be used
with Cactus.
Developing custom Ant tasks with VisualAge for Java
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This article outlines how to integrate Ant into VisualAge for Java,
and how to write and debug custom tasks using the IDE and the
integrated debugger.
Automated builds with VisualAge for Java and Ant
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This article shows how you can perform command line builds with a
VisualAge for Java repository.
Ant: A Build Tool from the Jakarta Project
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This article is from the "Best Practices" section of
Sun's Dot-Com Builder Site.
Making a Mountain Out of an Anthill
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This article is from the June 2001 issue of the Java Developer'
Journal. You need to be a registered JDJ subscriber to view this
article.
Using Ant and Weblogic EJBs
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This article describes how to use Ant to create Weblogic EJBs, and
some workarounds for issues you may encounter.
This article is a short introduction into the basic
concepts of Ant.
Using JavaScript with Ant
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A tutorial about using JavaScript and XSLT with Ant.
Series of articles that describe a framework for web
application development based on Ant and JUnit.
Developing with JAXB and Ant
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Series of articles that shows how to use Ant together with
the Java API for XML Binding (JAXB).
Ant - presented to the Tucson Java Users Group
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A PowerPoint technical overview presentation on Ant. Comes complete with a straightforward example demonstrating code compilation, JAR'ing, JUnit testing, JUnit reporting, and Zipping a distribution. A few advanced topics are touched upon like property immutabality and using <antcall> to get around it, build listeners, and writing custom tasks.
A PowerPoint presentation on Ant 1.2. It provides a basic overview
of Ant's capabilities.
A detailed Ant 1.3 PowerPoint presentation, made at the St. Louis Java Users Group
meeting in March 2001. Includes a detailed build file and basic
descriptions of all the built in and optional tasks. Updated for Ant 1.4 in October 2001.
Available in PDF format now.
Modern Development Crises
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This presentation is an overview of the current state of software
development today. There are a couple of slides that briefly cover
Ant.
A presentation from the Web Services
DevCon in March 2002.