Essential Tools For Application Development

In Essential Tools, we will look at two important classes of tools for developers: Version Control Systems and Built Automation Tools. We will look why we use such tools, discuss common concepts for those categories of tools, and then look at a specific and common example of each: Apache® Subversion® for version control, and Apache® Maven™ for build automation.

• Version Control
• This unit discusses the concept of Version Control, often referred to as Source Control. We then go into a fair amount of detail on one Version Control System, Apache® Subversion®.
• Build Automation Tools
• This module discusses the history and purpose of Built Automation Tools. It then goes into some detail on one such tool, commonly used in the Java eco-system, especially with Spring-based projects, Apache® Maven™.