A workaround would be to ship with a minimal build.xml along with the JAR which does an <unjar> to bootstrap and <ant> the primary build file, although this is probably just as good as deploying the real build file.
It would be nice for Ant to be modified to allow getting at build files from an archive resource or from a URL.
Erik
On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 12:51 AM, Tony Obermeit wrote:
I have created a jar file that include the ant class files, a build.xml file and my application class files.
I have not been able to get ant to find the build file within the jar file. If I place the build file in the same directory as the jar file, and run ant as follows:
java -cp application.jar org.apache.tools.ant.Main, ant runs the build file successfully. The problem is when the build file is not in a directory, but instead is bundled within the jar file, then ant reports "Build file: build.xml does not exist, Build Failed".
I'm using a single jar file (which includes ant class files, application class files and build.xml) so that my entire application, and it's setup scripts (build.xml) can be easily deployed. For what it's worth, the build file contains sql tasks that I used to create database tables when running the application.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Tony
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