The book introduces many tools which might be useful during automation the build, installation, and monitoring of a large-size java application. (Ant, JUnit, Groovy, CruiseControl, NSIS, Java Web Start, XFD build monitor, Unix scripting, Ruby, log4j, Jetty)The description of these tools is not deep at all, the book places more emphasis on covering the whole process from the first build to the customer support, taking all automation options used by professional software developer companies.The text is easy to understand. The only reason why I gave four stars is the poor book binding: pages start falling very soon.