reloading webapp from build.xml
Hi, I have an ant script (small, b/c I'm new to ant) that builds some classes and copies them over to my WEB-INF/classes directory. But I'd like to see if I can program the ant script to reload the webapp too, does anyone know how this is done? Thanks, Erik PS (OT of Tomcat, but...): I followed an example build.xml file to make mine, and it includes a task named clean that looks like it cleans up the build directory. How can I execute this task from the prompt without coding a dependency into the path of execution of the build.xml file itself? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reloading webapp from build.xml
I use wget(http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/wget.html) with ant.
It is similar to this:
Properties to have set somewhere (build.properties):
webapp.path=/mywebapp
tomcat.instance=localhost:8080
tomcat.user=foo
tomcat.passwd=bar
wget.dir=/usr/local/bin/
wget.exe=wget
ANT SNIPPET:
*
target name=reload
exec dir=${wget.dir} executable=${wget.exe}
arg line=--spider --http-user=${tomcat.user}
--http-passwd=${tomcat.passwd}
http://${tomcat.instance}/manager/reload?path=${webapp.path}/
/exec
/target
*
-Tim
Erik Price wrote:
Hi,
I have an ant script (small, b/c I'm new to ant) that builds some
classes and copies them over to my WEB-INF/classes directory. But I'd
like to see if I can program the ant script to reload the webapp too,
does anyone know how this is done?
Thanks,
Erik
PS (OT of Tomcat, but...): I followed an example build.xml file to make
mine, and it includes a task named clean that looks like it cleans up
the build directory. How can I execute this task from the prompt
without coding a dependency into the path of execution of the build.xml
file itself? Thanks!
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Re: reloading webapp from build.xml
See the example at: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/appdev/ http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/appdev/sample/ It provides examples using the Tomcat Ant manager tasks which is exactly what you need. Jake At 08:04 AM 1/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I have an ant script (small, b/c I'm new to ant) that builds some classes and copies them over to my WEB-INF/classes directory. But I'd like to see if I can program the ant script to reload the webapp too, does anyone know how this is done? Thanks, Erik PS (OT of Tomcat, but...): I followed an example build.xml file to make mine, and it includes a task named clean that looks like it cleans up the build directory. How can I execute this task from the prompt without coding a dependency into the path of execution of the build.xml file itself? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reloading webapp from build.xml
Tim Funk wrote: I use wget(http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/wget.html) with ant. Tim, Thanks for your idea -- it's a good one and I didn't even think of it. But according to the link Jacob Kjome posted, the same can be done using a build.properties and custom ant task with the catalina-ant.jar classes. The only reason I'd choose this over wget is that it would appear that the wget approach puts the username/password on the command line itself, so that would be viewable to any other users using top or ps or similar process-watching software. I'm assuming of course that I can somehow protect the build.properties file from other users as well... Thanks again, Erik -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reloading webapp from build.xml
You could always use a .wgetrc to contain those parameters. Or ant's GET task probably does the trick too since it supports BASIC authentication. In the near future - I hope to change my deploy tasks to use ant's GET instead of wget. -Tim Erik Price wrote: Tim Funk wrote: I use wget(http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/wget.html) with ant. Tim, Thanks for your idea -- it's a good one and I didn't even think of it. But according to the link Jacob Kjome posted, the same can be done using a build.properties and custom ant task with the catalina-ant.jar classes. The only reason I'd choose this over wget is that it would appear that the wget approach puts the username/password on the command line itself, so that would be viewable to any other users using top or ps or similar process-watching software. I'm assuming of course that I can somehow protect the build.properties file from other users as well... Thanks again, Erik -- 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]
Re: reloading webapp from build.xml
ant does reload. Look in the Application Developer documentation http://localhost:8080/tomcat-docs/appdev/index.html At 08:04 AM 1/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I have an ant script (small, b/c I'm new to ant) that builds some classes and copies them over to my WEB-INF/classes directory. But I'd like to see if I can program the ant script to reload the webapp too, does anyone know how this is done? Thanks, Erik PS (OT of Tomcat, but...): I followed an example build.xml file to make mine, and it includes a task named clean that looks like it cleans up the build directory. How can I execute this task from the prompt without coding a dependency into the path of execution of the build.xml file itself? Thanks! -- 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]
