Tomcat does. Peep the classes in: org.apache.catalina.ant.* Also look into this: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/manager-howto.html
Frankly my milage varied. I found the reload task pretty useful but most of the other tasks could use a bit more documentation. I had trouble making them useful. I'm hoping to find time to go a little deeper, maybe write some docs myself. +jeff -----Original Message----- From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 7:32 AM To: 'Ant Users List' Subject: RE: Using Ant to stop and start Tomcat Do this instead, and let Ant do the quoting: <java fork="yes" failonerror="false" output="nul" classname="org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap"> <arg value="stop" /> <sysproperty name="catalina.base" value="${tomcat40.home}" /> <sysproperty name="catalina.home" value="${tomcat40.home}" /> <classpath path="${tomcat40.cp}" /> </java> But I would still think Tomcat as Ant tasks to do the same thing. Might not be that much more convenient, just syntactically nicer IMHO. --DD --DD -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 3:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: Using Ant to stop and start Tomcat In my scripts <java fork="yes" failonerror="false" output="nul" classname="org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap"> <arg value="stop" /> <jvmarg value="-Dcatalina.base="${tomcat40.home}"" /> <jvmarg value="-Dcatalina.home="${tomcat40.home}"" /> <classpath path="${tomcat40.cp}" /> </java> stops tommy. Jan Matčrne > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 12. Dezember 2002 17:15 > An: 'Ant Users List' > Betreff: RE: Using Ant to stop and start Tomcat > > I'd be surprised Tomcat doesn't already have these. Did you > check the Tomcat > doco? --DD > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:11 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Using Ant to stop and start Tomcat > > Hey I wanted to create a really lazy ant option that stops > Tomcat and then > starts it back. > > > I have on that builds my webapp, deletes old folder and war > from tomcat and > then copies over the new war. I just wanted to add to it so > that it could > stop tomcat first and then start it back. > > > I am using 4.1.12 > > > Any ideas? > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
