No need to copy stuff around when creating archives - pick it up from wherever it is.
To include stuff in the WEB-INF folder, see the webinf section of the war man page --> http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/war.html. End up with something like this: <war destfile="${pub.dir}/${release.war}" webxml="${websrc.dir}/WEB-INF/web.xml" duplicate="fail"> <classes dir="${classes.prod.dir}"> <include name="**/*.class"/> </classes> <fileset dir="${websrc.dir}"> <exclude name="**/*.xml"/> </fileset> <fileset dir="${genSrc.dir}"/> <lib dir="${lib.dir}"> <patternset refid="dependent.libraries"/> <patternset refid="other.libraries"/> </lib> <webinf dir="${websrc.dir}"> <include name="struts-config.xml"/> <include name="cachespec.xml"/> </webinf> </war> -----Original Message----- From: Rez P [mailto:pon...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 12:23 PM To: Ant Subject: RE: Copying external file into WAR Then maybe you could accomplish it by doing a copy command. Copy the file from its source to where you stage the war file, either before you execute the war task or within the war task. After I usually run my clean target, I do all my staging in the init target even if the compiled classes paths don't exist yet! I create the directories and copy my files in advance in the init target and when the javac task runs, it has no problem or issues with the folders already pre-existing; it would be the same as an incremental build or not running the clean target. I hope this helps. > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:37:08 -0500 > Subject: Re: Copying external file into WAR > From: romsok.t...@gmail.com > To: user@ant.apache.org > > That would work for web.xml - but I would like to copy another, unrelated > properties file from an external dir to the WAR's WEB-INF. > I looked at the examples in the manual, but maybe I am missing something... > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Rez P <pon...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Check out the Ant manual, it has some examples. In the excerpt below, all > > you have to do in the war task is to change the location or path of the > > webxml attribute. If the web.xml is outside of your project in a higher > > heirachy than your project, all you have to do is to type the absolute path, > > starting at the root of the system and tell it where the web.xml is. > > > > > > > > e.g. /my/other/project/web.xml > > > > > > > > http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html > > > > > > > > <war destfile="myapp.war" webxml="src/metadata/myapp.xml"> > > <fileset dir="src/html/myapp"/> > > <fileset dir="src/jsp/myapp"/> > > <lib dir="thirdparty/libs"> > > <exclude name="jdbc1.jar"/> > > </lib> > > <classes dir="build/main"/> > > <zipfileset dir="src/graphics/images/gifs" > > prefix="images"/> > > </war> > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:17:40 -0500 > > > Subject: Copying external file into WAR > > > From: romsok.t...@gmail.com > > > To: user@ant.apache.org > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Could someone please tell me how I can accomplish the following? > > > > > > I want to build a war file. Additionally there is a configuration file > > that > > > is found outside of the WEB-INF directory, but when that WEB-INF dir is > > > packaged into the war I want to place that config file in WEB-INf in the > > war > > > - without having to copy it into the actual WEB-INF before making the WAR > > > file. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/ > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/ _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _____________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
