Re: Ant DeployTask / InstallTask

[Peter Rossbach]

Hello Christian,
please read the manager app documentation for Tomcat 5 to explain all 
deploy parameter.

Here my ant task for remote (war) and local deployment:
Here my build.properties
server.url=http://localhost:7380
app.name=myapps
app.path=/${app.name}
app.version=1.0-dev
app.url=${server.url}/${app.name}/
app.home=${basedir}/build/${app.name}.war
app.context=${basedir}/tomcat/${app.name}.xml
manager.username=manager
manager.password=tomcat
manager.url=${server.url}/manager
...
   <target name="deployremote" description="Install application to 
servlet container">
       <echo message="${app.path}"/>
       <echo message="${app.home}"/>
       <deploy url="${manager.url}" username="${manager.username}"
               password="${manager.password}"
               path="${app.path}"
               war="file:${app.home}"
               update="true"/>
   </target>
   <target name="deploylocal" description="Install application to 
servlet container">
       <echo message="${app.path}"/>
       <echo message="${app.context}"/>
       <echo message="${app.home}"/>
       <deploy url="${manager.url}" username="${manager.username}" 
password="${manager.password}"
               path="${app.path}"
               localWar="file:${app.home}"
               config="file:${app.context}" />
   </target>
   <target name="undeploy" description="Remove application on servlet 
container">
       <undeploy url="${manager.url}" username="${manager.username}" 
password="${manager.password}" path="${app.path}"/>
   </target>

You see that file:<absolute-path>/${app.name}.war or 
file:<absoulte>/${app.name}.war work for me.
Only thing is, that you need a undeploy call for local deployment. A 
update flag not exists. I hope
we can change this for 5.next.

regards
peter
Christian Nelson schrieb:
Greetings,
I'm using the ant DeployTask in two different scenarios.  One works as 
desired, the other not so much.  I'm trying to figure out what I'm not 
doing right.

Scenario 1: Deploy a packaged .war file.
This is works great.  The war parameter to the install task is 
war="jar:file:/${basedir}/${dist}/${war.application}!/" (which obvious 
resolves to a real file once the properties are set.  The problem is I 
need to go through the whole undeploy, create war, deploy war cycle.

Scenario 2: Deploy a unpacked (exploded) web app (which exists on the 
server).

If I take the .war and explode it, and then try to add the directory 
where it lives as follows:

war="file:/${basedir}/war/"
It reports success, and shows up when the web applications are listed, 
but it's not really set-up correctly because the file 
"web-inf/web.xml" doesn't seem to be processed.  Here's why I think that:

INFO: Missing application web.xml, using defaults only 
StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/archiver] 

Note: I have also tried the InstallTask, and I've tried both 5.0.27 as 
well as 4.1.30.

Really, my goal, and I don't care how I achieve it, is that during 
development, I want to have tomcat serving the exploded version of the 
app so I can make changes on the fly (or with a reload) instead of 
having to undeploy, war, deploy with each change.  What's the best way 
to do this?

Thanks in advance,
Christian

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