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| Professional JavaTools for Extreme Programming: Ant, XDoclet, JUnit, Cactus,and Maven | 
 enlarge | Authors: Warner Onstine, Paul Visan, Damon Payne, Joseph D. Gradecki, Kate Rhodes, Richard Hightower, Robert Watkins, Erik Meade
Publisher: Wrox
Category: Book
List Price: CDN$ 48.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 194629
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 768
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.7
ISBN: 0764556177
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
UPC: 785555879058
EAN: 9780764556173
ASIN: 0764556177
Publication Date: April 9, 2004
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 a solid start for beginners June 7, 2004
Seriously, I can't find any other book right now that lays Maven out in such an easy to approach way. All the material online is reference based entirely and my fingers are practically bleeding from digging through google every five seconds. If you've never setup Maven before, buy this book while you still have your hair.
Excellent reference for open-source tools May 10, 2004
I bought this book mostly because I am fairly new to open-source development and was looking for a good reference to tools such as Ant, JUnit, Cactus, and Maven. These chapters were concise and had plenty of supporting examples. I also liked the fact that the book provides plenty of tips, and has references to good practices. I definitely recommend it to less experienced developers, or to those looking to have a better understanding of open-source tools.
 Tons of Typos May 8, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a convenient way to get a decent introduction to Java tools because all of the information is condensed into one book. However, there is nothing in here that you can't read online for free if you take the time to find it. I am really angry that I paid $40 for a book that is full of typos. There are literally typos on every other page. I have never encountered so many typos in a book before this one. The typos are especially troublesome because they often occur in the examples so if you are unfamiliar with the syntax of the new tool being taught you will get unexplainable errors when the bad examples don't work for you. Print out online tutorials, this book is a waste of money.
very useful book November 27, 2003
I found this book very useful because it filled up some gaps in my programming practices. For a long time I avoided to learn Ant and other open source tools because their documentation and usage if any look so intimidating. But now with big project looming over me I decided to give it a try.
The book not only helps to start with Ant, JMeter and JUnit but also shows mechanics of packaging and deployment of complex enterprise application.
I substracted one star because the book does not use more accessible application server and database.
Somewhat misnamed, but still extremely useful September 10, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You can happily ignore the main title of this book. Sure there's a nod toward extreme programming, but that's not what this book is really all about. This book is a fine introduction to a whole bunch of really useful tools to boost your Java (and especially J2EE) programming. And all the tools can be downloaded, source code and all, for free! There are too many tools to list here, but they include the best-of-breed Ant build system, JUnit, HTTPUnit, ServletUnit and Cactus test frameworks, load and performance analysers and some great libraries for interacting with other servers. Two major test cases are carried through the book to show the benefits of each approach. Each tool covered gets at least a chapter of tutorial, and some of the major ones also get an appendix of API and configuration information. This book was almost too useful to review. It's been open on my desk from almost the minute I got it and has greatly improved many aspects of my development process. If you want to get up to speed quickly and practically on a load of useful, powerful, tools - get this book. Everyone I've shown it to has wanted their own copy ...
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