Chapter 9. Beyond Ant’s core tasks
| 9.1 | The many different categories of Ant tasks |
| 9.2 | Installing optional tasks |
| 9.3 | Optional tasks in action |
| 9.4 | Software configuration management under Ant |
| 9.5 | Using third-party tasks |
| 9.6 | The Ant-contrib tasks |
| 9.7 | Code auditing with Checkstyle |
| 9.8 | Summary |
At this point in the book, we have a build file that can build, test, package, run, and distribute a Java library. In the next few chapters, we’ll use it in a bigger application, building, deploying, and testing web and Enterprise Java applications.
Before then we’re going to look at more of Ant’s tasks, exploring the different kinds of tasks that Ant supports: built-in, optional, and third-party. The tasks we’re going to cover can all improve our application’s ...
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