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        <a name="At Ant's website"></a>
        At Ant's website
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                        <p>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.</p>
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                        <p>jGuru hosts an interactive Ant discussion forum and FAQ system</p>
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          <a href="http://www.jguru.com/forums/home.jsp?topic=Ant">http://www.jguru.com/forums/home.jsp?topic=Ant</a>
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          <a href="http://www.jguru.com/faq/home.jsp?topic=Ant">http://www.jguru.com/faq/home.jsp?topic=Ant</a>
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        FAQ about Borland Application Server tasks
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                        <p>Benoit Moussaud, the original author of the Borland
        Application Server specific <a href="manual/OptionalTasks/ejb.html#ejbtasks">EJB tasks</a> has put
        together a FAQ for this specific subtask.</p>
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          <a href="http://www.moussaud.org/ejbjar.html">http://www.moussaud.org/ejbjar.html</a>
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                        <p>The ASF provides a Wiki for several topics. </p>
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      Books
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                        <p>Listed by descending publication date.</p>
                                      <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Extreme Programming with Ant"></a>
        Extreme Programming with Ant
      </h4>
                        <p> This book shows how to implement an XP project using Ant 1.5.3, and many other 3rd party tools.  Covers:</p>
                                <ul>
               <li>The fundamentals of Ant: concepts, core and optional tasks</li>
               <li>How to write custom Ant components, including custom Tasks, Loggers, Listeners, Input Handlers, Selectors, Filters, Mappers and Data Types</li>
               <li>Mitigating risks by creating spike tests with Ant buildfiles</li>
               <li>Add CVS version control and testing with JUnit</li>
               <li>Automate nightly builds and reporting</li>
               <li>Deploy applications dynamically using XDoclet</li>
               <li>Enforcing Code Standards with Jalopy, PMD, CheckStyle, iContract, JDepend</li>
               <li>Using Remote Ant (Rant) and CruiseControl</li>
               <li>Generating project documentation</li>
               <li>Adapting an XP process for use by other teams or across an enterprise</li>
               <li>Custom Task examples to generating UML diagrams, creating reports and metrics on-the-fly</li>
               <li>Follows a case-study of a team that implements an XP Project</li>
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          Authors:
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          Glenn Niemeyer and Jeremy Poteet
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          URL:
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          <a href="http://www.sams.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id=%7BFB825A48-BC04-4C55-BD8C-DF93C6BBF920%7D">http://www.sams.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id=%7BFB825A48-BC04-4C55-BD8C-DF93C6BBF920%7D</a>
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                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Ant. Das Java-Build-Tool in der Praxis"></a>
        Ant. Das Java-Build-Tool in der Praxis
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                        <p>A German language book on Ant that covers Ant 1.5.
        This is the original description:</p>
                                <pre class="code">
        Das Build-Tool Ant ist das Open-Source-Werkzeug, das den Entwicklungsprozess einer Java-
        oder J2EE-Anwendung wesentlich vereinfacht. Gesteuert durch XML-basierte Skripte f�hrt es
        nahezu alle Aufgaben aus, die nach dem Kodieren einer Anwendung anfallen.</pre>
                                <p>Some topics:</p>
                                <ul>
                <li>creating archives (zip, jar)</li>
                <li>call the java compiler</li>
                <li>edit property files</li>
                <li>file operation</li>
                <li>source code control systems</li>
            </ul>
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          Bernd Matzke
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          URL:
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          <a href="http://www.addison-wesley.de/main/main.asp?page=home/bookdetails&amp;ProductID=13459">http://www.addison-wesley.de/main/main.asp?page=home/bookdetails&amp;ProductID=13459</a>
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                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Java Development with Ant"></a>
        Java Development with Ant
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                        <p>Covers Ant 1.5, including:</p>
                                <ul>
                <li>The new Ant 1.5 features</li>
                <li>Ant's datatypes and property handling</li>
                <li>JUnit testing and reporting</li>
                <li>Continuous integration techniques</li>
                <li>XDoclet for attribute-oriented programming</li>
                <li>EJB generation, building, and packaging</li>
                <li>Writing and testing native code</li>
                <li>Building Web Services with Apache Axis</li>
                <li>Deploying your system to multiple remote servers</li>
                <li>Using and writing
                    <ul>
                        <li>Loggers</li>
                        <li>Listeners</li>
                        <li>Selectors</li>
                        <li>Custom tasks</li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
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          Erik Hatcher and Steve Loughran
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          URL:
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          <a href="http://www.manning.com/antbook/">http://www.manning.com/antbook/</a>
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                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Ant: The Definitive Guide"></a>
        Ant: The Definitive Guide
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                        <p>Covers Ant release 1.4.1.</p>
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          Jesse E. Tilly and Eric M. Burke
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          URL:
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          <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/anttdg/">http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/anttdg/</a>
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                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Ant. Kurz und Gut."></a>
        Ant. Kurz und Gut.
      </h4>
                        <p>A German language short reference for Ant that covers Ant
        1.4.  This is the original description:</p>
                                <pre class="code">
  Ant kurz &amp; gut enth�lt eine vollst�ndige Referenz der Built-in Tasks
  und ihrer jeweiligen Attribute sowie kurze Beispiele f�r ihre Verwendung.
  Daneben bietet das Buch eine knappe Einf�hrung in die Arbeit mit Ant und
  eine Erl�uterung der Ant-Basiselemente (Projekte, Properties, Targets und Tasks).
  Behandelt werden au�erdem grundlegende Konzepte wie Filesets, Patternsets und
  Pfadstrukturen, das Schreiben eigener Tasks, die Aufruf-Syntax und Optional Tasks. </pre>
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          Stefan Edlich
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          URL:
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          <a href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3897212412/">http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3897212412/</a>
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                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Java Tools for eXtreme Programming"></a>
        Java Tools for eXtreme Programming
      </h4>
                        <p>This book covers the following XP subjects:</p>
                                <ul>
                <li>Automated unit and functional testing</li>
                <li>Continuous integration through build and deployment automation</li>
                <li>The value of refactoring and continuous integration</li>
                <li>How Ant, JUnit, JUnitPerf, Cactus, HTTPUnit, and JMeter
                can be used to achieve the goals of the XP methodology</li>
            </ul>
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          Richard Hightower and Nicholas Lesiecki
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          URL:
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          <a href="http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,047120708X,00.html">http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,047120708X,00.html</a>
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      Articles and Presentations
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                        <p>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.</p>
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      Articles
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                              <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Ant in Anger: Using Ant in a Production Development       System"></a>
        Ant in Anger: Using Ant in a Production Development       System
      </h4>
                        <p>This document describes strategies and some basic examples of how to
        use Ant in larger team development projects.</p>
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          <a href="mailto:steve_l@iseran.com">Steve Loughran</a>
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          URL:
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          <a href="ant_in_anger.html">http://ant.apache.org/ant_in_anger.html</a>
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                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Ant Task Guidelines"></a>
        Ant Task Guidelines
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                        <p>This document describes how to write custom Ant tasks, and how to submit
        them to potentially be included in Ant.</p>
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          <a href="mailto:steve_l@iseran.com">Steve Loughran</a>
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          URL:
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          <a href="ant_task_guidelines.html">http://ant.apache.org/ant_task_guidelines.html</a>
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                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Automating the build and test process"></a>
        Automating the build and test process
      </h4>
                        <p>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.</p>
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          <a href="mailto:ehatcher@apache.org">Erik Hatcher</a>
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          URL:
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          <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-junitmail/">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-junitmail/</a>
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                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Incremental development with Ant and JUnit"></a>
        Incremental development with Ant and JUnit
      </h4>
                        <p>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.</p>
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          <a href="mailto:malcolm@nuearth.com">Malcolm Davis</a>
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          URL:
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                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ant/?dwzone=java">http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ant/?dwzone=java</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Automate your build process using Java and Ant"></a>
        Automate your build process using Java and Ant
      </h4>
                        <p>This article provides an introduction to using Ant with some basic
        examples and by highlighting some of the important tasks.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="mailto:michael.cymerman@javaworld.com">Michael Cymerman</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant.html">http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant.html</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Short tutorial in Cactus' (formerly J2EEUnit)       documentation"></a>
        Short tutorial in Cactus' (formerly J2EEUnit)       documentation
      </h4>
                        <p>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.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Cactus development team
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/howto_ant_primer.html">http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/howto_ant_primer.html</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Developing custom Ant tasks with VisualAge for Java"></a>
        Developing custom Ant tasks with VisualAge for Java
      </h4>
                        <p>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.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="mailto:glenn@somanetworks.com">Glenn McAllister</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document2366?OpenDocument&amp;p=1&amp;BCT=1&amp;Footer=1">http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document2366?OpenDocument&amp;p=1&amp;BCT=1&amp;Footer=1</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Automated builds with VisualAge for Java and Ant"></a>
        Automated builds with VisualAge for Java and Ant
      </h4>
                        <p>This article shows how you can perform command line builds with a
        VisualAge for Java repository.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="mailto:glenn@somanetworks.com">Glenn McAllister</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4366?OpenDocument&amp;p=1&amp;BCT=3&amp;Footer=1">http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4366?OpenDocument&amp;p=1&amp;BCT=3&amp;Footer=1</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Ant: A Build Tool from the Jakarta Project"></a>
        Ant: A Build Tool from the Jakarta Project
      </h4>
                        <p>This article is from the "Best Practices" section of
        Sun's Dot-Com Builder Site.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Laura Geele Wang
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Making a Mountain Out of an Anthill"></a>
        Making a Mountain Out of an Anthill
      </h4>
                        <p>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.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Neal Ford
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://www.sys-con.com/java/archivesa.cfm?volume=06&amp;issue=06">http://www.sys-con.com/java/archivesa.cfm?volume=06&amp;issue=06</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Using Ant and Weblogic EJBs"></a>
        Using Ant and Weblogic EJBs
      </h4>
                        <p>This article describes how to use Ant to create Weblogic EJBs, and
        some workarounds for issues you may encounter.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Jesse E. Tilly
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/06/25/antejb.html">http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/06/25/antejb.html</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Using JavaScript with Ant"></a>
        Using JavaScript with Ant
      </h4>
                        <p>A tutorial about using JavaScript and XSLT with Ant.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Dylan Schiemann
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://www.sitepen.com/ant/javascript.html">http://www.sitepen.com/ant/javascript.html</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Building with Ant"></a>
        Building with Ant
      </h4>
                        <p>Series of articles that describe a framework for web
        application development based on Ant and JUnit.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="mailto:alexc@purpletech.com">Alex Chaffee</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Introduction: <a href="http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12065_989631,00.html">http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12065_989631,00.html</a><br />
                Directory Structure: <a href="http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12082_994991,00.html">http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12082_994991,00.html</a><br />
                Deployment and Distribution: <a href="http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12077_998241,00.html">http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12077_998241,00.html</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Developing with JAXB and Ant"></a>
        Developing with JAXB and Ant
      </h4>
                        <p>Series of articles that shows how to use Ant together with
        the Java API for XML Binding (JAXB).</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Joseph Shelby
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/03/06/jaxant1.html">http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/03/06/jaxant1.html</a><br />
                <a href="http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/03/13/jaxbant2.html">http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/03/13/jaxbant2.html</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                      <h3 class="section">
      <a name="Presentations"></a>
      Presentations
    </h3>
                              <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Ant - presented to the Tucson Java Users Group"></a>
        Ant - presented to the Tucson Java Users Group
      </h4>
                        <p>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 &lt;antcall&gt; to get around it, build listeners, and writing custom tasks.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="mailto:ehatcher@apache.org">Erik Hatcher</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://erik.hatcher.net/ant-jug.zip">http://erik.hatcher.net/ant-jug.zip</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Ant Build Tool"></a>
        Ant Build Tool
      </h4>
                        <p>A PowerPoint presentation on Ant 1.2.  It provides a basic overview
        of Ant's capabilities.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="mailto:chanezon@netscape.com">Patrick Chanezon</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://people.netscape.com/chanezon/tech/ant/ant_preso.ppt">http://people.netscape.com/chanezon/tech/ant/ant_preso.ppt</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Ant"></a>
        Ant
      </h4>
                        <p>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.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Mark Volkmann
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://www.ociweb.com/jnb/files/Ant.pdf">http://www.ociweb.com/jnb/files/Ant.pdf</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="Modern Development Crises"></a>
        Modern Development Crises
      </h4>
                        <p>This presentation is an overview of the current state of software
        development today.  There are a couple of slides that briefly cover
        Ant.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="mailto:steve_l@iseran.com">Steve Loughran</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://www.iseran.com/Steve/modern_development_processes.html">http://www.iseran.com/Steve/modern_development_processes.html</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                                                    <h4 class="subsection">
        <a name="When Web Services Go Bad"></a>
        When Web Services Go Bad
      </h4>
                        <p>A presentation from the <a href="http://www.sellsbrothers.com/conference/">Web Services
        DevCon</a> in March 2002.</p>
                                      <table class="externals" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
              <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          Author:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="mailto:steve_l@iseran.com">Steve Loughran</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
                  <tr>
                      <th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          URL:
      </th>
                          <td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
      valign="top" align="left">
          <a href="http://www.iseran.com/Steve/papers/when_web_services_go_bad.html">http://www.iseran.com/Steve/papers/when_web_services_go_bad.html</a>
      </td>
      </tr>
        </table>
                              
    </div>
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