On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wow, a CD. I am impressed. I'll have to get hold of a copy so that > I will have some German literature other than Lucky Luke cartoons > that my finite German understanding can cope with :)
Reminds me on the Asterix cartoons in Latin that are somewhere on my bookshelf 8-) > As an aside, that makes two German books on ant, one slender quick > reference and this one (what does the title translate to BTW?) "Ant. The Java build tool in real world use." Or something close. The snippet means ,---- | The build tool Ant is the open source tool that simplifies the | development process of Java and J2EE applications considerably. | Controlled by XML based scripts it performs almost all tasks involved | during the coding of an application. `---- well, I'd probably disagree with quite a bit of this, in particular the restriction to coding seems wrong to me. > Is there a vast number of Ant users in the +49 country code Hard to say. Germany used to have a healthy software industry, but this has largely changed considerably - as anywhere else. I don't have any numbers but wouldn't expect market penetration of Java and Ant to be different in Germany when compared to other western countries. A lot of interesting Ant add-ons come from Germany (the JBuilder integration long before Borland even considered Ant or Eclipse or IDEA were there, the Planty Ant plugin for Eclipse, many others). Then there are currently four German Ant committers with Christoph, Nico, Antoine (do you count as German 8-) and myself. Twice the number of Australian committers. ;-) Stefan
