Erik Hatcher

Erik Hatcher, an Ant project committer, has written popular articles on Ant's JUnit integration. He maintains jGuru's Ant FAQ where he answers the world's toughest Ant questions. Erik lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

books by Erik Hatcher

Ant in Action

  • June 2007
  • ISBN 9781932394801
  • 600 pages
  • printed in black & white

Ant in Action is a complete guide to using Ant to build, test, redistribute and deploy Java applications. A retitled second edition of the bestselling and award-winning Java Development with Ant, this book contains over 50% new content including:

  • New Ant 1.7 features
  • Scalable builds for big projects
  • Continuous integration techniques
  • Deployment
  • Library management
  • Extending Ant

Whether you are dealing with a small library or a complex server-side system, this book will help you master your build process. By presenting a running example that grows in complexity, the book covers nearly the entire gamut of modern Java application development, including test-driven development and even how to set up your database as part of the deployment.

Lucene in Action, Second Edition

  • July 2010
  • ISBN 9781933988177
  • 532 pages
  • printed in black & white

When Lucene first appeared, this superfast search engine was nothing short of amazing. Today, Lucene still delivers. Its high-performance, easy-to-use API, features like numeric fields, payloads, near-real-time search, and huge increases in indexing and searching speed make it the leading search tool.

And with clear writing, reusable examples, and unmatched advice, Lucene in Action, Second Edition is still the definitive guide to effectively integrating search into your applications. This totally revised book shows you how to index your documents, including formats such as MS Word, PDF, HTML, and XML. It introduces you to searching, sorting, and filtering, and covers the numerous improvements to Lucene since the first edition. Source code is for Lucene 3.0.1.

Lucene in Action

  • November 2004
  • ISBN 9781932394283
  • 456 pages
  • printed in black & white

Adding search to your application can be easy. With many reusable examples and good advice on best practices, Lucene in Action shows you how. And if you would like to search through Lucene in Action over the Web, you can do so using Lucene itself as the search engine--take a look at the authors' awesome Search Inside solution. Its results page resembles Google's and provides a novel yet familiar interface to the entire book and book blog.

Java Development with Ant

  • August 2002
  • ISBN 9781930110588
  • 672 pages

Translation rights for Java Development with Ant have been granted for Taiwan. If you are interested in learning where to buy this book in a language other than English, please inquire at your local bookseller.