Not very familiar with java, however given below is part of a perl
script which calls ANT, the -D parameters are actually input fields in a
html page. So when the user selects the fields they get passed on to the
perl script which is called in the action "POST" section of the hrml
page.
I guess you can easily use this concept to write a servlet which calls
ant from from a html page.The servlet can be deployed to tomcat.
--------------------
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
$cgi = new CGI;
print $cgi->header();
$version = $cgi->param(version);
$project = $cgi->param(project);
$server = $cgi->param(server);
$command = $cgi->param(command);
$servername = $cgi->param(servername);
system("ant -f /mybuilds/build.xml -logger
org.apache.tools.ant.listener.MailLogger -DDdev.build=$valuefromhtmlpage
$command");
}
Note: $command is the ant target that you want to execute, can also be
passed from the html page(like a submit button)
Anil
-----Original Message-----
From: Radha Sangal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 10:43 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: RE: ant UI
That helped ! command line arguments , I completely forgot about that.
Though now I need to write the script in java (language used here). We
do have tomcat here.
If you have any pointers over the same, would be gr8.
Xml-rpc was one tech but it doesn't handle "time ". what I mean to say
is, when I use this tech to run a bat file on (build)server2 from
(web)server1, it doesn't allow the user to nav till its done and that's
long time.
I think I need to digging more tech to solve this.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob, Anil - MWT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 6:17 PM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: RE: ant UI
Instead of hardcoding the value of the Build_0402_0012, you can actually
pass it as a commandline paramters -Ddev.build=Build_0402_0012. Then the
build file would look like this <property name="DevBuild1"
value="${dev.build}"/>
When ant runs it picks up the value given on the commandline.
For a UI. You can actually write a small perl script or cgi script to
execute ant over a browser, off course you need a web server also. Works
great.
Anil
-----Original Message-----
From: Radha Sangal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 11:48 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: RE: ant UI
Look at the bottom of the second link-ed page. I need to finally create
such UI where we enter filename in a text box and get results.
Meanwhile, what I am looking for is a way to build UI to connect to ant
script for providing inputs to its properties. To make it clear:
I have <property name="DevBuild1" value="Build_0402_0009"/>
<property name="DevBuild2" value="Build_0402_0012"/> in
my ant script I have to manually go inside the script and change these
properties for diff builds. I have to build a UI for it so that when I
enter build name there, it updates the property in ant script.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 1:17 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: ant UI
At 04:30 PM 12/16/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Does Ant come with any user interface from where we can pass
parameters >and see results on web explorer?
Use an XSLT. Add something the following to your build file....
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="./ant2html.xsl"?>
After that, just create (or find it on the net) the stylesheet and open
the build.xml file in IE or Mozilla. You should see a moderately decent
GUI
view of your build file.
See:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-antxsl/
or
http://cvs.prevayler.codehaus.org/prevayler/ant2html.xsl
Note: it is only "text/xsl" because IE needs that value and it doesn't
break Mozilla, but there is no official mime-type named "text/xsl".
BTW, if it is graphical view of the dependencies that you are looking
for, try something like vizant.
Jake
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