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Professional Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Ant, Xdoclet, JUnit, Cactus, and Maven (Programmer to Programmer) by: Richard Hightower, Warner Onstine, Paul Visan, Damon Payne, Joseph D. Gradecki, Kate Rhodes, Robert Watkins, Erik Meade List Price: £29.99 City Travel Guides Price: £19.49 You Save: £10.50 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133 EAN: 9780764556173 ISBN: 0764556177 Label: John Wiley & Sons Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 768 Publication Date: April 23, 2004 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Studio: John Wiley & Sons Sales Rank: 267642 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A good bookThis book is usefull to understand a set of java tool for XP, but it can be only a starting point to learn and to use them. Ant and Xdoclet are the most interesting parts. Rating:  - Beware - essential downloads not availablePage xxvii of the book, reads: 'All the configuration scripts, build scripts, applications, and other source code in this book are available online at http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/hightower.' This is only partially true, as the download available at the website relates to an early chapter 3, while the sample code for chapters 4-11 is not available. I've been chasing Wiley tech support for 3 months to obtain the missing resources, but so far have got nowhere. But if you only plan to read the first 3 chapters, this is a great book. Rating:  - Great Content, Bad EditingI bought this book to gain an overview of the tools available in open source community, but whose documentation was lacking. This book takes you step by step through the tools to build and automate all the processes that you don't want to have to deal with on a daily basis. It has a trivial and a more complex example that it builds on through out the book. It emphasized the use of Ant to automate everything, from unit tests (Junit, Cactus) to building and deploying J2EE applications. I have found it extremely usefull. I didn't know much about using Ant to start with and was confused by the documentation available on the Cactus website. This book cleared it up for me. The only complaint is that the book ... Read More: Rating:  - Very useful and don't be put of by the XP monikerA very practical book which gets to the nitty gritty of coding and testing without insisting on pair programming (which is difficult for the many one person bands out there!). The book actually helps you quickly get the best out of Ant , Junit, JMeter etc , without re-inventing the wheel. Rating: - The right (practical) way to start up a xp java team... I think it's hard to practice all 12 practices of the xp methodology but there are some, the more practical, that are very useful and necessary even if you don't want to make xp: the incremental test first programming, using JUnit, Cactus, HttpUnit and continuous integration, using Ant. The book is about these and more open source tools, which means that we can just download them, use them and if we can, improve them. And this is great. But open source tools often lacks in printed documetation and if you are not involved in their development it could be difficult to start using them. In this case this book is just what you need. The first part of the book is simply great, well written (I'm italian, as you can read), there's a lot of code ... Read More: |
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