| Brimming with over 100 "recipes" for getting down to business and actually doing XP,
the Java Extreme Programming Cookbook doesn't try to "sell" you on XP; it
succinctly documents the most important features of popular open source tools for XP
in Java-- including Ant, Junit, HttpUnit, Cactus, Tomcat, XDoclet-- and then digs right
in, providing recipes for implementing the tools in real-world environments.
Anyone involved with the open source community or using open source software knows there are tons
of tools available on the market. Keeping up with these tools, and knowing which tools to use and
how to use them, is an intimidating road to travel. We hope to simplify your journey by showing
concise, useful recipes for some of the more popular open source Java tools on the market today.
We show you tools like JUnit, JUnitPerf, Mock Objects (more of a concept), and Cactus for testing
Java code. We show how to generate EJB files using XDoclet, too. All tools discussed in this book are
completely executable through Ant, allowing for a complete and stable build environment on any
Java-enabled platform.
This is also a book about Extreme Programming (XP), which led us to choose the tools that we did.
The XP software development approach does not depend on a particular set of tools; however, the
right tools certainly make following XP practices easier. For instance, test-first development is a
cornerstone of XP, so most of the tools in this book are testing frameworks. XP also demands
continuous integration, which is where Ant fits in. We are big fans of automation, so we cover the
XDoclet code generator as well as describe ways to automate deployment to Tomcat and JBoss. |
