How to use ant to create a war file

quinnd6

Im trying to learn to use ant.

I want to be able to use it to create a war file of a jsp and servlet web application.

I gave it a try anyway and made a build.xml file and ran ant makewar.
So it did make the war which I put in the tomcat webapps directory.

Then I ran tomcat and saw that the directories belonging to the application weren't structured properly.
There was no jsp directory , the classes directory was not inside web-inf but out on its own and there was no jsp directory.

I cant find any tutorials on how to create a directory structure within a war using ant.

Can someone help?

cheers.

Heres the build.xml file I created so far with the stuff wrong in it ie. no directory structure.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
  <project name="Ant Tutorial" basedir="." default="compile">

  <property name="build" location="C:/tomcat6.0.14/webapps/Login1/build"/>
  <property name="warname" location="C:/tomcat6.0.14/webapps/Login1/Login.war"/>

  <target name="create" depends="delete">
    <mkdir dir="${build}"/>

  </target>

  <target name="delete">

    <delete dir="${build}"/>

  </target>

  <target name="compile" depends="create">
    <javac srcdir="web-inf/classes" destdir="${build}"/>
    
  </target>

  <target name="makewar" depends="compile">
    
    <war destfile="${warname}" basedir="${build}" webxml="web-inf/web.xml">
	
	
    <include name="**/*.*"/>
    <exclude name="**/*Test*"/>
  



	
	
	</war>
  </target>

</project>

hussey

http://www.roseindia.net/jboss/buildingwebapplicationwithant.shtml

all you need

but looks like you are missing the copying of files

<copy todir="${warDir}/WEB-INF/classes">
<fileset dir="${classdir}" includes="**/*.class" /> 
</copy>

<copy todir="${warDir}/WEB-INF">
<fileset dir="${deploymentdescription}" includes="web.xml" /> 
</copy>

<copy todir="${warDir}">
<fileset dir="${web}" includes="**/*.*" /> 
</copy>

quinnd6

That is excellent thank you very much