Overview
From the Back Cover:
You¿ve heard about Extreme Programming. You might have read articles or books describing the XP process, but what next? How do you implement XP principles into an actual Java project? This unique book explains everything you need for XP development, starting with Ant, the popular Java build tool. The authors describe every stage of a real-world project life cycle¿testing, refactoring, versioning, deployment, and more¿with practical examples that you can immediately put to use in your own projects.
Every aspect of an XP project includes unique challenges, and Extreme Programming with Ant works through each step of the process.
- Mitigate risks by creating spike tests with Ant buildfiles
- Add version control and testing with JUnit
- Automate nightly builds and reporting
- Deploy applications dynamically using XDoclet
- Add additional team members after a project is underway
- Write custom Ant components to facilitate deployment
- Adapt an XP process for use by other teams or across an enterprise
Throughout the book, the authors include dozens of ideas for extending Ant with useful custom features such as generating UML diagrams and creating reports and metrics on-the-fly. All code and examples have been built, tested, and deployed using Ant 1.5.3.
Synopsis
From the Back Cover:
You¿ve heard about Extreme Programming. You might have read articles or books describing the XP process, but what next? How do you implement XP principles into an actual Java project? This unique book explains everything you need for XP development, starting with Ant, the popular Java build tool. The authors describe every stage of a real-world project life cycle¿testing, refactoring, versioning, deployment, and more¿with practical examples that you can immediately put to use in your own projects.
Every aspect of an XP project includes unique challenges, and Extreme Programming with Ant works through each step of the process.
- Mitigate risks by creating spike tests with Ant buildfiles
- Add version control and testing with JUnit
- Automate nightly builds and reporting
- Deploy applications dynamically using XDoclet
- Add additional team members after a project is underway
- Write custom Ant components to facilitate deployment
- Adapt an XP process for use by other teams or across an enterprise
Throughout the book, the authors include dozens of ideas for extending Ant with useful custom features such as generating UML diagrams and creating reports and metrics on-the-fly. All code and examples have been built, tested, and deployed using Ant 1.5.3.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewThe heart of Extreme Programming (and many other lightweight development processes) is iteration: constant new builds, and continuous feedback. This virtually demands the automation of build, testing, and deployment processes. One tool makes this especially easy: Apache Ant. Now there’s a complete guide to using Ant with lightweight methodologies.
Extreme Programming with Ant presents a book-length case study covering the entire development lifecycle. You’ll first define a complete set of build, testing, and deployment processes that’ll work in many (though not all) projects and environments. These include everything from automatic generation of documentation, to unit testing and version control, and nightly builds that encompass revision control, compiles, unit tests, reports, even metrics. The authors show how to integrate the CruiseControl tool for unattended continuous builds; then turn to deployment -- including tools that can automatically create deployment descriptors for web apps, EJBs, JSPs, and taglibs.
You’ll learn how to scale your project’s build processes as your project grows, and how to deploy your XP/Ant processes enterprise wide. There’s a full chapter on using Ant and XP in commercial development environments: for example, how to obfuscate JARs so they can’t be reengineered. There’s even coverage of changing your processes to reflect a company reorganization.
The authors never shy away from details. You’ll find Ant 1.5.3 XML buildfiles, as well as Java code for extending Ant, and guidance on integrating third-party tools. Among the tasks you’ll master here: detecting missing unit tests, creating UML diagrams during a build, integrating Oracle SQL*Loader, even creating custom loggers that encrypt email for delivery over unsecured networks. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.