No idea if ant can do this, but i tend to put a 0 byte 'ignoreme' file in the directory. This stops these problems happening with more than just ant!
Daniel. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ashish Kulkarni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 November 2004 18:31 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OT] Ant question > > > Hi > I have a ant script which creates a war file, every > thing works well but it does not copy empty directory > in the war file, i need one directory which is empty, > it is under WEB-INF and at run time xml files are > created in it, > My web application expects this empty folder and > crashes if not found, > How do i say in ant script to copy empty directory > also. > This is my ant script > <target name="all" depends="compile,createjar" > description="create deployable war file"> > <war basedir="${webroot}" destfile ="download.war" > webxml="${webroot}/WEB-INF/web.xml" > excludes="**/*.properties,**/*.class" update="true" > > > </war> > </target> > > Ashish > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
