I have the small and the big Ant books from O'Reilly. Usually I'd recommendTwo books on Ant from O'Reilly? Really? I have three (well, ok, I co-wrote one of them) different books: the Sam's book, the O'Reilly one, and the one Steve and I wrote.
O'Reilly, but, though these are very good, they don't explain much of Ant's
additional tasks. I've heard there's an Ant book out there that even devotes
two chapters on XDoclet. I'd recommend at least taking a look at that one,
just for hearing that it also covers XDoclet.
I could give you the sales pitch on why ours is the best, but that is a pretty biased opinion and I wouldn't take an authors opinion alone either :). Check the reviews at Amazon, that should tell you the bigger picture. Also, Steve and I are both very active Ant committers, which tells you that the information there is "directly from the source" (literally... the number of bugs fixed in Ant during the writing process is surely in the double digits).
Our book includes a complete chapter on XDoclet, as well as several other usages of XDoclet for web development and EJB development. In fact, the entire appendix E Ant Task Reference was generated with XDoclet. Look in the latest Ant binary distribution in the docs directory and you'll see Appendix E there - we donated it to the Ant project.
Erik
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