Steve Loughran

Steve Loughran designs and builds production Web Services using Java and Ant. Prior to this, he was a research scientist in Hewlett Packard Laboratories in England. Steve lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

books by Steve Loughran

Ant in Action
  • June 2007
  • ISBN 9781932394801
  • 600 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
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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.

Java Development with Ant
  • August 2002
  • ISBN 9781930110588
  • 672 pages
catalog / Programming Languages and Styles / Java

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