I am myself a new user of ant. And I know what you are going through now :)
I wrote a little script for my project with using tomcat and ant.It works
fine. So I am going to post the part of it for you...
<property file="build.properties" />
<property name="app.name" value="struts"/>
<property name="deploy.home"
value="${deploy.homeRoot}/webapps/${app.name}"/>
<property name="dist.home" value="${deploy.homeRoot}/webapps"/>
<property name="dist.src" value="${app.name}.jar"/>
<property name="dist.war" value="${app.name}.war"/>
<property name="javadoc.home" value="${deploy.home}/javadoc"/>
${deploy.homeRoot} is where I installed Tomcat on my computer.
<!-- build the distribution Web Archive (WAR) and Java Archive (JAR) files
-->
<target name="dist" depends="compile">
<jar jarfile="${dist.home}/${dist.war}" basedir="${deploy.home}"/>
<jar jarfile="${dist.src}" basedir="${dist.home}/struts/WEB-INF/lib" />
</target>
And you may want to check what the "compile" target generates in details by
writing "ant -verbose compile" in the command line.
I believe you'll get more help than this but I'll be happy if I could help a
little :)
Good luck,
>From: "David Koontz \(MapQuest\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: build.xml help - making a dist
>Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:38:45 -0600
>
>I'm a new user of ant - think I understand it ... somewhat, I got the
>included
>build.xml from somewhere and have made minor modifications for my project.
>
>Several questions have come up:
>
>1) When I build dist I get an error about "A zip file cannot include
>itself"
>what do I have misconfigured?
> C:\Documents and Settings\dkoontz\My
>Documents\MapQuest\VerticalMarkets\Locator>
> > ant dist
> Buildfile: build.xml
> prepare:
> compile:
> dist:
> [jar] Building jar:
>C:\Java\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1\webapps\CopyCenter\CopyCenter.jar
> BUILD FAILED
> C:\Documents and Settings\dkoontz\My
>Documents\MapQuest\VerticalMarkets\Locator\
> build.xml:159: A zip file cannot include itself
> Total time: 1 second
>
>It appears to make the JAR & WAR files.
>
>2) The WAR/JAR files do not have compiled class files in them - is this
>good
>or bad?
>- I think it's bad, because the compile step is compiling and putting the
>class files in
>the TOMCAT....webapp dir. Is this the "best practice"?
>
>
>Here's the build.xml ----
><!-- A "project" describes a set of targets that may be requested
> when Ant is executed. The "default" attribute defines the
> target which is executed if no specific target is requested,
> and the "basedir" attribute defines the current working directory
> from which Ant executes the requested task. This is normally
> set to the current working directory.
>-->
>
>
><project name="CopyCenter" default="compile" basedir=".">
>
>
><!-- Property Definitions
>
> Each of the following properties are used by convention in this
> build file. The values specified can be overridden at run time by
> adding a "-Dname=value" argument to the command line that invokes
>Ant.
> This technique is normally used to copy the values of the ANT_HOME
> and TOMCAT_HOME environment variables into the "ant.home" and
> "tomcat.home" properties, which are normally not defined explicitly.
>
> app.name Base name of this application, used to
> construct filenames and directories.
>
> deploy.home The name of the directory into which the
> deployment hierarchy will be created.
> Normally, this will be the name of a
> subdirectory under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps.
>
> dist.home The name of the base directory in which
> distribution files are created.
>
> dist.src The name of the distribution JAR file
> containing the application source code,
> to be stored in the "dist.home" directory.
> This filename should end with ".jar".
>
> dist.war The name of the Web ARchive (WAR) file
> containing our deployable application.
> This filename should end with ".war".
>
> javadoc.home The name of the base directory in which
> the JavaDoc documentation for this application
> is generated.
>
> tomcat.home The name of the base directory in which
> Tomcat has been installed. This value is
> normally set automatically from the value
> of the TOMCAT_HOME environment variable.
>
> In the example below, the application being developed will be
>deployed
> to a subdirectory named "myapp", and will therefore be accessible at:
>
> http://localhost:8080/myapp
>-->
>
> <property name="tomcat.home"
>value="C:\Java\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1"/>
>
> <property name="app.name" value="CopyCenter"/>
> <property name="deploy.home"
>value="${tomcat.home}/webapps/${app.name}"/>
> <property name="dist.home" value="${deploy.home}"/>
> <property name="dist.src" value="${app.name}.jar"/>
> <property name="dist.war" value="${app.name}.war"/>
> <property name="javadoc.home" value="${deploy.home}/javadoc"/>
>
>
><!-- The "prepare" target is used to construct the deployment home
> directory structure (if necessary), and to copy in static files
> as required. In the example below, Ant is instructed to create
> the deployment directory, copy the contents of the "web/" source
> hierarchy, and set up the WEB-INF subdirectory appropriately.
>-->
>
> <target name="prepare">
> <mkdir dir="${deploy.home}"/>
> <copy todir="${deploy.home}">
> <fileset dir="web"/>
> </copy>
> <mkdir dir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF"/>
> <copy file="etc/web.xml" tofile="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/web.xml"/>
> <mkdir dir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/classes"/>
> <mkdir dir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/lib"/>
> <copy todir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/lib">
> <fileset dir="lib"/>
> </copy>
> <mkdir dir="${javadoc.home}"/>
> </target>
>
>
><!-- The "clean" target removes the deployment home directory structure,
> so that the next time the "compile" target is requested, it will need
> to compile everything from scratch.
>-->
>
> <target name="clean">
> <delete dir="${deploy.home}"/>
> </target>
>
>
><!-- The "compile" target is used to compile (or recompile) the Java
>classes
> that make up this web application. The recommended source code
>directory
> structure makes this very easy because the <javac> task automatically
> works its way down a source code hierarchy and compiles any class
>that
> has not yet been compiled, or where the source file is newer than the
> class file.
>
> Feel free to adjust the compilation option parameters (debug,
> optimize, and deprecation) to suit your requirements. It is also
> possible to base them on properties, so that you can adjust this
> behavior at runtime.
>
> The "compile" task depends on the "prepare" task, so the deployment
> home directory structure will be created if needed the first time.
>-->
>
> <target name="compile" depends="prepare">
> <javac srcdir="src" destdir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/classes"
> classpath="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/classes"
> debug="on" optimize="off" deprecation="on"/>
> <copy todir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/classes">
> <fileset dir="src" includes="**/*.properties"/>
> </copy>
> </target>
>
>
><!-- The "javadoc" target is used to create the Javadoc API documentation
> for the Java classes in this web application. It is assumed that
> this documentation is included in the deployed application, so the
> example below generates the Javadoc HTML files in a subdirectory
>under
> the deployment home directory. Feel free to customize the options
>for
> the JavaDoc task, after consulting the Ant documentation.
>-->
>
> <target name="javadoc" depends="prepare">
> <javadoc sourcepath="src" packagenames="*"
> destdir="${javadoc.home}"/>
> </target>
>
>
><!-- The "all" target rebuilds everything by executing the "clean"
> target first, which forces the "compile" target to compile all
> source code instead of just the files that have been changed.
>-->
>
> <target name="all" depends="clean,prepare,compile,javadoc"/>
>
>
><!-- The "dist" target builds the distribution Web ARchive (WAR) file
> for this application, suitable for distribution to sites that wish
> to install your application. It also creates a JAR file containing
> the source code for this application, if you wish to distribute
> that separately.
>-->
>
> <target name="dist" depends="prepare,compile">
> <jar jarfile="${dist.home}/${dist.src}"
> basedir="."/>
> <jar jarfile="${dist.home}/${dist.war}"
> basedir="${deploy.home}"/>
> </target>
>
>
></project>
>
>---- end of build.xml ----
>
>
>Thanks for the help or pointers!
>
>David Koontz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Software Engineer - Enterprise Services
>MapQuest www.mapquest.com
>Denver, CO 303 244 0305
>
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