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Articles and Presentations

> This page lists articles and presentations written about Ant. If you've written something that should be included, please post it to one of the mailing lists.

Articles

> Ant in Anger: Using Ant in a Production Development System

> > This document describes strategies and some basic examples of how to use Ant in larger team development projects.

> > Author: | Steve Loughran
> > URL: | http://jakarta.apache.org/cvsweb/index.cgi/~checkout~/jakarta-ant/docs/ant_in_anger.html?content-type=text/html

> Ant Task Guidelines

> > This document describes how to write custom Ant tasks, and how to submit them to potentially be included in Ant.

> > Author: | Steve Loughran
> > URL: | http://jakarta.apache.org/cvsweb/index.cgi/~checkout~/jakarta-ant/docs/ant_task_guidelines.html?content-type=text/html

> Incremental development with Ant and JUnit

> > 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.

> > Author: | Malcolm Davis
> > URL: | http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ant/?dwzone=java

> Automate your build process using Java and Ant

> > This article provides an introduction to using Ant with some basic examples and by highlighting some of the important tasks.

> > Author: | Michael Cymerman
> > URL: | http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant.html

> Short tutorial in Cactus' (formerly J2EEUnit) documentation

> > 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.

> > Author: | Cactus development team
> > URL: | http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cactus/ant.html

> Developing custom Ant tasks with VisualAge for Java

> > 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.

> > Author: | Glenn McAllister
> > URL: | http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document2366?OpenDocument&p=1&BCT=1&Footer=1

> Automated builds with VisualAge for Java and Ant

> > This article shows how you can perform command line builds with a VisualAge for Java repository.

> > Author: | Glenn McAllister
> > URL: | http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4366?OpenDocument&p=1&BCT=3&Footer=1

> Ant: A Build Tool from the Jakarta Project

> > This article is from the "Best Practices" section of Sun's Dot-Com Builder Site.

> > Author: | Laura Geele Wang
> > URL: | http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp

> Making a Mountain Out of an Anthill

> > 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.

> > Author: | Neal Ford
> > URL: | http://www.sys-con.com/java/archivesa.cfm?volume=06&issue=06

> Using Ant and Weblogic EJBs

> > This article describes how to use Ant to create Weblogic EJBs, and some workarounds for issues you may encounter.

> > Author: | Jesse E. Tilly
> > URL: | http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/06/25/antejb.html

Presentations

> Ant Build Tool

> > A PowerPoint presentation on Ant 1.2. It provides a basic overview of Ant's capabilities.

> > Author: | Patrick Chanezon
> > URL: | http://people.netscape.com/chanezon/tech/ant/ant_preso.ppt

> Ant

> > 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.

> > Author: | Mark Volkmann
> > URL: | http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/knowledgebase/March2001/index.html

> Modern Development Crises

> > This presentation is an overview of the current state of software development today. There are a couple of slides that briefly cover Ant.

> > Author: | Steve Loughran
> > URL: | http://www.iseran.com/Steve/modern_development_processes.html

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