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by Richard Hightower (Author), Nicholas Lesiecki (Author) "This chapter is an overview of the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology as it applies to developing enterprise-level software in java ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (5 Dec 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 047120708X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471207085
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 19.2 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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"...an excellent tutorial... I strongly recommend this book..." (CVu, August 2002)

"...an excellent introduction to the world of eXtreme Programming..." (Visual Systems Journal, October 2002)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The right (practical) way to start up a xp java team, 5 April 2002
... I think it's hard to practice all 12 practices of the xp methodology but there are some, the more practical, that are very useful and necessary even if you don't want to make xp: the incremental test first programming, using JUnit, Cactus, HttpUnit and continuous integration, using Ant. The book is about these and more open source tools, which means that we can just download them, use them and if we can, improve them. And this is great. But open source tools often lacks in printed documetation and if you are not involved in their development it could be difficult to start using them. In this case this book is just what you need.
The first part of the book is simply great, well written (I'm italian, as you can read), there's a lot of code (you can download it from the book site). The author divided the example in a simple example (just to start to use the tools) and in a case study, to apply the practice in a real world project. In about 240 pages you will use Ant, JUnit, HttpUnit, Cactus, JMeter, JUnitPerf, and if you are not an expert there is an intro about the j2ee deployment architecture too.
The second part isn't so useful: it's the reference for Ant tag and the api reference (about 150 pages). You would pay the same for the book wothout the reference, so consider it as a gift.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Content, Bad Editing, 26 May 2004
This review is from: Professional Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Ant, Xdoclet, JUnit, Cactus, and Maven (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)
I bought this book to gain an overview of the tools available in open source community, but whose documentation was lacking.

This book takes you step by step through the tools to build and automate all the processes that you don't want to have to deal with on a daily basis. It has a trivial and a more complex example that it builds on through out the book.

It emphasized the use of Ant to automate everything, from unit tests (Junit, Cactus) to building and deploying J2EE applications. I have found it extremely usefull. I didn't know much about using Ant to start with and was confused by the documentation available on the Cactus website. This book cleared it up for me.

The only complaint is that the book is fraught with errors. Especially the code. I haven't downloaded the code off the website yet, but I don't believe any code in the book would compile. On page 154, I found 9 errors in the code.

Good book if you are setting up an automated development environment. You will probably want more than a little experience with Java and be willing to go to the online documentation for Ant to clear up some issues.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Beware - essential downloads not available, 14 Jul 2004
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Page xxvii of the book, reads:
'All the configuration scripts, build scripts, applications, and other source code in this book are available online at http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/hightower.'
This is only partially true, as the download available at the website relates to an early chapter 3, while the sample code for chapters 4-11 is not available. I've been chasing Wiley tech support for 3 months to obtain the missing resources, but so far have got nowhere.
But if you only plan to read the first 3 chapters, this is a great book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A good book
This book is usefull to understand a set of java tool for XP, but it can be only a starting point to learn and to use them.
Ant and Xdoclet are the most interesting parts.
Published on 28 Sep 2005 by Granatella Giampiero

5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful and don't be put of by the XP moniker
A very practical book which gets to the nitty gritty of coding and testing without insisting on pair programming (which is difficult for the many one person bands out there!). Read more
Published on 1 May 2002 by Mr. R. J. Downey

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