Table of Contents

Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
By Steve Holzner
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: April 2005
ISBN: 0-596-00609-8
Pages: 334

Table of Contents  | Index  | Errata

		Copyright
		Preface
			What's Inside
			Conventions Used in This Book
			What You'll Need
			Using Code Examples
			We'd Like to Hear from You
		Chapter 1.  Getting Started
			Section 1.1.  Ant's Origins
			Section 1.2.  Getting Ant
			Section 1.3.  Ant at Work
			Section 1.4.  Anatomy of a Build File
			Section 1.5.  Running Ant
		Chapter 2.  Using Properties and Types
			Section 2.1.  Using Properties to Control Tasks
			Section 2.2.  Using Property Files
			Section 2.3.  Handling Data Using Types
		Chapter 3.  Building Java Code
			Section 3.1.  Compiling Code
			Section 3.2.  Getting Input from the User
			Section 3.3.  Calling Other Ant Tasks
			Section 3.4.  Importing Other Build Files
			Section 3.5.  Documenting Code
			Section 3.6.  Creating JAR Files
			Section 3.7.  Setting Build Numbers
			Section 3.8.  Setting Timestamps
		Chapter 4.  Deploying Builds
			Section 4.1.  Packaging Applications for Deployment
			Section 4.2.  Preparing to Deploy
			Section 4.3.  Deploying Applications
			Section 4.4.  Scheduling Automatic Builds
		Chapter 5.  Testing Builds with JUnit
			Section 5.1.  Using JUnit
			Section 5.2.  Running Test Cases
			Section 5.3.  Testing in Batches
			Section 5.4.  Running the Build File
			Section 5.5.  Extending JUnit
		Chapter 6.  Getting Source Code from CVS Repositories
			Section 6.1.  Source Control and Ant
			Section 6.2.  Logging In
			Section 6.3.  Working with the Server
			Section 6.4.  Getting Version Data
			Section 6.5.  Creating Change Logs
			Section 6.6.  Finding Changes Between Versions
			Section 6.7.  Creating Patches
		Chapter 7.  Executing External Programs
			Section 7.1.  Executing Java Code
			Section 7.2.  Executing External Programs
			Section 7.3.  Performing Batch Execution
			Section 7.4.  Multithreading Tasks
			Section 7.5.  Setting Execution Order
		Chapter 8.  Developing for the Web
			Section 8.1.  Creating WAR Archives
			Section 8.2.  Creating CAB Files
			Section 8.3.  Creating Simple Web Deployment
			Section 8.4.  Deploying with SCP
			Section 8.5.  Deploying to Tomcat
			Section 8.6.  Deploying to Tomcat
			Section 8.7.  Compiling JSPs
			Section 8.8.  Deploying to EJB Containers
		Chapter 9.  XML and XDoclet
			Section 9.1.  Validating XML Documents
			Section 9.2.  Loading Properties from XML Files
			Section 9.3.  Creating Ant Task DTDs
			Section 9.4.  Transforming XML Using XSLT
			Section 9.5.  Using XDoclet
			Section 9.6.  Developing Enterprise JavaBeans
		Chapter 10.  Optional Tasks
			Section 10.1.  Using Sound
			Section 10.2.  Creating Splash Screens
			Section 10.3.  Subtituting Text Using Regular Expressions
			Section 10.4.  Handling Dependencies
		Chapter 11.  Integrating Ant with Eclipse
			Section 11.1.  Introducing Eclipse
			Section 11.2.  Running Ant Build Files
			Section 11.3.  Using a Different Version of Ant
			Section 11.4.  Using the Ant View
		Chapter 12.  Extending Ant
			Section 12.1.  Creating a Simple Custom Ant Task
			Section 12.2.  Extending the Task Class
			Section 12.3.  Creating Custom Listeners
			Section 12.4.  Creating Custom Loggers
			Section 12.5.  Creating Custom Filters
			Section 12.6.  Creating Custom Selectors
			Section 12.7.  Creating New Types
		Colophon
		Index