We wrap up our lessons on working with this open-source development tool from the Jakarta Project by looking at some advanced issues -- multiple deployment targets, versioning, and source distribution.

In Part 2 of our series, Chaffee discusses the importance of a clean and orderly project directory structure -- and provides tips on creating a solid foundation for structures that can scale to large teams using version control and multiple releases.

Developing Web applications using Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, and other J2EE technologies is fun! See how to avoid many of the common growing pains of application development by using simple tools, like Ant and JUnit, and a simple directory structure.

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