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<a name="FAQs"></a>
FAQs
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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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<a name="jGuru"></a>
jGuru
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<p>jGuru hosts an interactive Ant discussion forum and FAQ system</p>
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<a name="FAQ about Borland Application Server tasks"></a>
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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Apache
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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>
</ul>
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Glenn Niemeyer and Jeremy Poteet
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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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<a name="Ant. Das Java-Build-Tool in der Praxis"></a>
Ant. Das Java-Build-Tool in der Praxis
</h4>
<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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<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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<a name="Java Development with Ant"></a>
Java Development with Ant
</h4>
<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>
</ul>
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Erik Hatcher and Steve Loughran
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<a href="http://www.manning.com/antbook/">http://www.manning.com/antbook/</a>
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<a name="Ant: The Definitive Guide"></a>
Ant: The Definitive Guide
</h4>
<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 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. </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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Authors:
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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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<h3 class="section">
<a name="Articles and Presentations"></a>
Articles and Presentations
</h3>
<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>
<h3 class="section">
<a name="Articles"></a>
Articles
</h3>
<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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Author:
</th>
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valign="top" align="left">
<a href="mailto:steve_l@iseran.com">Steve Loughran</a>
</td>
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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
</h4>
<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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<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<a href="mailto:steve_l@iseran.com">Steve Loughran</a>
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URL:
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valign="top" align="left">
<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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<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<a href="mailto:ehatcher@apache.org">Erik Hatcher</a>
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URL:
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<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
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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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<td colspan="1" rowspan="1"
valign="top" align="left">
<a href="mailto:malcolm@nuearth.com">Malcolm Davis</a>
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<th colspan="1" rowspan="1"
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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>
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<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>
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valign="top" align="left">
<a href="mailto:michael.cymerman@javaworld.com">Michael Cymerman</a>
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URL:
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<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>
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<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>
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Cactus development team
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URL:
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<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>
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