On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 05:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not sure I quite understand what you mean when you say "tomcat itself". > The tasks are really just a fairly simple wrapper around existing Tomcat > functionality. However, I thought it may be useful to some members of the > ant community that are developing with Tomcat 4.x. > > An example that illustrates the basic idea is that a developer could enter > the url http://localhost:8080/manager/list in a browser, enter a valid > username and password when prompted by the browser and the list of deployed > webapps would be displayed in the browser. > > I wanted to use this "manager" webapp functionality from ant so that I > could compile, build a war, and then redeploy the webapp, from ant without > having to bounce the server or enter a command in a browser. I didn't see > an ant task that would allow me to access a password protected resource via > http, so I created it myself.
I think what he is saying is - why don't you contribute it to the tomcat project because they will probably want to have it ;) -- Cheers, Pete "The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against." - Bruce Lee
