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Top 15 Ant Best Practices Publish Date: Dec. 17, 2003
Nearly every open source Java project now uses Ant. The widespread use of Ant in these projects has naturally
led to an increased need for a set of well-established best practices. Eric M. Burke, coauthor of Java Extreme Programming Cookbook and Ant: The Definitive Guide , offers his 15 best practices for using Ant and for writing well-crafted Ant buildfiles. These tips were inspired by his own mistakes on previous projects, or from horror stories relayed to him from other developers.
Top 12 Reasons to Write Unit Tests Publish Date: Apr. 2, 2003
Most programmers do not write tests. This is unfortunate, because testing improves software quality and design, reduces bugs, and provides accurate documentation. But if those reasons don't sway you, here are 12 more on the importance of writing tests, brought to you by Eric M. Burke and Brian M. Coyner, coauthors of Java Extreme Programming Cookbook .
Installing Software with Jakarta Ant Publish Date: Jun. 5, 2002
Why depend on someone else to install software on user's machines? An install script and Ant build files do the trick.
Top Ten Java and XSLT Tips Publish Date: Aug. 29, 2001
O'Reilly author Eric M. Burke gives ten
tips for using Java and XSLT.
By Eric M. Burke, author of O'Reilly's Java and XSLT (September 2001).
Developing, Applying and Optimizing XSLT with Java Servlets Publish Date: Dec. 15, 2000
O'Reilly's upcoming Java and XSLT book author, Eric Burke, explains the fundamental patterns and techniques commonly used when XSLT and Java Servlets are combined.
