This book is a collection of Apache Ant recipes that I have gathered up whilst doing Web development. The book is not intended to be an introduction to using Apache Ant, nor does it pretend to be a complete treatment on using Ant with the various technologies that I have presented. You will still need to refer to Ant's rather good manual or any of the other proper Ant books to learn 'how to use ant'.

Jim Fuller has been a professional developer for many years, working with several blue-chip software companies in both his native USA and the UK. He has co-written a few technology-related books and regularly speaks and writes articles focusing on XML technologies. He is a founding committee member for XML Prague and was in the gang responsible for EXSLT. He spends his free time playing with XML databases and XQuery. Jim is technical director for a few companies ( Webcomposite s.r.o.) and can be reached at jim.fuller@webcomposite.com.