Professional Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Ant, XDoclet, JUnit, Cactus, and Maven (Programmer to Programmer)

Just when you thought you had learned everything there is to know about Ant, you find out that Ant is an extensible application designed to handle just about any of your build and deployment needs. In this chapter, we've shown you how Ant deals with tasks and works to read the properties associated with a task. We've also created our own example task to perform operations for our application.