Re: create and deploy war to tomcat -- JAVA400-L

Lim,

Assuming windows development environment :

1. Download ant  ( http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi )
2. Unzip into C:\Ant
3. Set an environment variable ANT_HOME to C:\Ant
4. Add %ANT_HOME%\bin to your path

create a build file ( build.xml ) in the root directory of your application that looks something like this :

at the command line run ant. If all goes well your application should compile and build into a war.

Pillai


<code>
<project name="egrepaircenter" default="main" basedir=".">

  <property environment="env"/>

   <property file="./build.properties"/>

<property name="build.compiler" value="modern"/> <property name="app.name" value="sanjose"/> <property name="app.path" value="/${app.name}"/>

<property name="build.srcdir" value="./com"/> <property name="build.destdir" value="./build" /> <property name="build.jspoutdir" value="./jspout" /> <property name="build.assembledir" value="./assemble"/> <property name="reportdir" value="${basedir}/reports"/> <property name="tomcat.home" value="${env.CATALINA_HOME}"/>   <property name="ant.jar" value="${env.ANT_HOME}\lib\ant.jar"/> <property name="servlet.jar" value="${env.CATALINA_HOME}\common\lib\servlet-api.jar"/> <property name="jsp.jar" value="${env.CATALINA_HOME}\common\lib\jsp-api.jar"/> <property name="jaspercompiler.jar" value="${env.CATALINA_HOME}\common\lib\jasper-compiler.jar"/> <property name="jasperruntime.jar" value="${env.CATALINA_HOME}\common\lib\jasper-runtime.jar"/> <property name="junit.jar" value="C:\junit3.8.1\junit.jar"/> <property name="war.file" value="sanjose"/> <property name="war.file.name" value="${war.file}-${build.DSTAMP}-${build.TSTAMP}.war"/> <property name="deploy.dir" value="${tomcat.home}/webapps"/> <property name="prod.deploy.dir" value="y:/tomcat4.1/webapps"/> <property name="stage.deploy.dir" value="s:/tomcat4.1/webapps"/>  <target name="init"> <tstamp prefix="build"/> <echo>Build starts at ${build.DSTAMP}-${build.TSTAMP}</echo> </target>

<path id="project.class.path"> <fileset dir="./WEB-INF/lib/"> <include name="**/*.jar"/> </fileset> <pathelement path="${build.destdir}"/> <pathelement location="${ant.jar}"/> <pathelement location="${jaspercompiler.jar}"/> <pathelement location="${jasperruntime.jar}"/> <pathelement path="${servlet.jar}"/> <pathelement path="${jsp.jar}"/> </path> 

     <target name="clean">
         <delete dir="${build.destdir}" includeEmptyDirs="true" />
         <delete dir="${build.assembledir}" includeEmptyDirs="true" />
         <delete dir="${build.jspoutdir}" includeEmptyDirs="true" />
     </target>

<target name="prep"> <mkdir dir="${build.destdir}"/> <mkdir dir="${build.assembledir}"/> <mkdir dir="${build.jspoutdir}"/> </target>  <target name="compile"> <javac srcdir="${build.srcdir}" destdir="${build.destdir}" deprecation="on" debug="on" debuglevel="lines" > <include name="**/*.java"/> <exclude name="package.structurewebservices/client/**"/> <exclude name="package.structureunittest/**" unless="unit.test.flag" /> <classpath refid="project.class.path"/> </javac> <copy todir="${build.destdir}/com/olympus/eg/callcenter"> <fileset dir="./com/olympus/eg/callcenter" includes="*.properties"/> <fileset dir="./com/olympus/eg/callcenter" includes="*.pcml"/> </copy> </target> <target name="war" depends="init" unless="unit.test.flag"> <java classname="com.package.structurecallcenter.data.ConstantsEncrypter" failonerror="true"> <arg value="./WEB-INF/conf/Repair.properties"/> <classpath refid="project.class.path"/> </java> <copy file="./WEB-INF/web.xml" tofile="${build.jspoutdir}/WEB-INF/web.xml" overwrite="yes"> <filterset> <filter token="GENERATED" value="${generated_webxml}"/> </filterset> </copy> <war destfile="${war.file}-${build.DSTAMP}-${build.TSTAMP}.war" webxml="./WEB-INF/web.xml"> <webinf dir="./WEB-INF" includes="**/*" excludes="web.xml,CVS/**, **/*.jar, **/*.class"/> <lib dir="./WEB-INF/lib" excludes="CVS/**,commons-collections.jar,commons-dbcp.jar,commons-pool.jar"/> <classes dir="${build.destdir}"/> <classes dir="logconf"/> <zipfileset dir="form" excludes="CVS/**" prefix="form"/> <zipfileset dir="images" excludes="CVS/**" prefix="images"/> <zipfileset dir="javascript" excludes="CVS/**" prefix="javascript"/> <zipfileset dir="style" excludes="CVS/**" prefix="style"/> </war> </target> <target name="main" description="Default Target" depends="init,clean, prep, compile, war"/>

 </project>
</code>
Lim Hock-Chai wrote:

I created a project in eclipse that contains JSP, servlet, java classes and html. I've been manually creating the war file to deploy them to tomcat, quite a pain. I've heard that Ant is a better approach on doing this. Does anybody have an example of how Ant work? -- This is the Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400 (JAVA400-L) mailing list To post a message email: JAVA400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/java400-l or email: JAVA400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/java400-l.