Along with Steve's XDoclet <webdoclet> suggestion, also look into filtered <copy> to replace things dynamically in a templated web.xml.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:25 PM Subject: writing the web application descriptor file from Ant > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Diane Holt wrote: > > > Writing a task is certainly one way to do what you need doing -- but if > > you get stuck on something, you can also try writing the list, and it's > > likely that someone would be able to provide a solution (if nothing else, > > you may find someone has already written a task that'll do what you need). > > Okay. I need a task that can write my web.xml (i.e., the Servlets 2.2 web > application descriptor file) dynamically, just like the <propertyfile> > task can. > > I put some work into using the <style> task to do an XSLT transformation > on an existing web.xml file before deploying a .war file so that I could > set certain things such as <context-param>'s, but unfortunately, after a > transformation, the <!DOCTYPE web-app tag doesn't get carried over into > the new file, making the new file impossible to validate. > > Have a suggestion for a task that can do this or should I write one? > > Bill > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
