add information about ant and maven

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Markus Hausammann
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### Build Automation Tools
Build tools can be described as a collection of scripts that handle common tasks of software deployment. The build tool
is not a part of your software, it acts on your software from 'outside'.
is not a part of your software, it acts on your software from 'outside'.
There are many open source tools available to help you with build automation, some are written in PHP others aren't.
This shouldn't hold you back from using them, if they're better suited for the specific job. Here are a few examples:
[Phing](http://www.phing.info/) is the easiest way to get started with automated deployment in the PHP world.
With Phing you can control your packaging, deployment or testing process from within a simple XML build file.
Phing provides a rich set of tasks usually needed to install or update a web app and can be extended
with additional custom tasks, written in PHP.
Phing (which is based on [Apache Ant](http://ant.apache.org/)) provides a rich set of tasks usually needed to install or
update a web app and can be extended with additional custom tasks, written in PHP.
[Capistrano](https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki) is a system for *intermediate-to-advanced programmers*
to execute commands in a structured, repeatable way on one or more remote machines.
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* [Three part blog series about deploying a LAMP application with Chef, Vagrant, and EC2](http://www.jasongrimes.org/2012/06/managing-lamp-environments-with-chef-vagrant-and-ec2-1-of-3/)
* [Chef Cookbook which installs and configures PHP 5.3 and the PEAR package management system](https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/php)
Further reading:
* [Automate your project with Apache Ant](http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/automate-your-projects-with-apache-ant/)
* [Maven](http://maven.apache.org/), a build framework based on Ant and [how to use it with PHP](http://www.php-maven.org/)
### Continuous Integration
> Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently,