Ant has emerged as the preferred building tool for Java developers, automating tedious compilation, test and code management. Ant Developer's Handbook provides a practical developer's overview designed to help Java developers get more out of Ant. In this book, you'll learn how entire development teams can share and build files, regardless of the operating system each developer is using. In addition, you'll see how Ant can perform nearly any common configuration management function.
Learn how Ant can improve your current development practices so you spend less time building software and more time developing it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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| Alan Williamson | Alan Williamson is as much of a veteran of the Java world than one can be, with a language that is still very much finding its feet in the world. Alan has over 15 years experience in the world of software development, graduating with full Honors in Computer Science from the University of Paisley. Alan has worked in mainly research & development roles until starting n-Ary, the UK's first pure Java consultancy company 5 years ago, specializing in Java at the server side. Alan has also worked his way up to the dizzy heights of Editor-in-Chief of the worlds largest Java magazine; Java Developers Journal, can be found talking at various conferences all over the place! |
| Andrew Wu | Andy Wu has been involved in software development for over 5 years. He is a software enthusiast who thrives on new technologies. Andy currently applies his Java expertise as a developer at n-Ary consultancy in Scotland. Prior to joining n-Ary, he has worked in research and development roles having achieved a full Honours degree in Software Engineering from the University of Glasgow. |
| Joey Gibson | Joey Gibson has been working in the technology industry since 1990. He is a Sun Certified Programmer for the Java2 Platform and has been working with Java since early 1996. He is a Senior Consultant and instructor for BravePoint, located in Atlanta, GA, specializing in J2EE development. He is a collector of programming languages whose favorites include Java, Smalltalk, Ruby and Python. |
| Kirk Pepperdine | Kirk Pepperdine has more than 15 years of experience in informatics. During that time he has focused on applying Object Oriented methodologies and technologies to the field of distributed computing, where Kirk has functioned as a researcher, developer, designer, architect, and consultant. Kirk's career began in Biochemical Engineering, where he applied his researching skills in attaching computers to sheep and cats. Kirk has been heavily involved in the performance aspects of applications since the start of his career, and has tuned applications involving a variety of languages from Cray Assembler, through C, Smalltalk and on to Java. Kirk has focused on Java since 1996. |
