Chapter 0. Introduction to the Second Edition
Welcome to Ant in Action
We took a rest after the first edition of this book, Java Development with Ant. Erik went on to work on Lucene in Action, (Manning Publications Co., 2005) exploring the index/search tool in wonderful detail. Steve returned to HP Laboratories, in the UK, getting into the problem of grid-scale deployment.
In the meantime, Ant 1.6 shipped, not breaking anything in the first edition, but looking slightly clunky. There were easier ways to do some of the things we described, especially in the area of big projects. We finally sat down and began an update while Ant 1.7 was under development.
Starting the update brought it home to us how much had changed while we weren’t paying ...
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