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Apache Ant Fundamentals

by Rusty Lowrey

Learn the fundamentals of Apache Ant, a powerful and easy to use open-source build tool.

What you'll learn

Learn the fundamentals of Apache Ant, a powerful and easy to use open-source build tool mainly for Java, providing a number of built-in tasks for compiling, assembling, and testing Java applications. Ant can also be used effectively to build C or C++ applications or perform file management tasks for any sort of project.

About the author

Rusty became interested in programming in the late 90s. He began by learning front-end development, working for several startups coding HTML and Javascript. That evolved into Cold Fusion, then on to Java. Attending night courses at UCLA furthered his knowledge and he moved on to positions as Senior Software Engineer at multiple startups using the J2EE architecture. For some years now, he has been working as an independent contractor and focusing mainly on Android mobile phone application develop... more

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