Ant, the Java/XML Alternative to make

This might appear to be a strange place to introduce a new system for design and performing coordinated builds of Java applications. But Ant, a sub-project of the Apache Jakarta Project, happens to be the engine behind the build environment for both of the J2EE application servers included with this book's companion CD, Lutris EAS 4 and BEA WebLogic 6.1. It's also only a matter of time before the entire Enhydra project is Ant-based. Already, members of the Enhydra.org community have contributed Ant-based build environments that are likely to replace the existing Enhydra 3 system of make files.

Ant builds on many of the attributes of make, popularized by UNIX C development environments. Both systems take advantage ...

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