Yaron/Markus:
I have found a Tomcat 4.0 Startup script which you run by executing command
line option
ant start.tomcat.40 (courtesy Cactus Users Group)
Best Regards,
<!--
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Start Tomcat 4.0
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-->
<target name="start.tomcat.40">
<java classname="org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap" fork="yes">
<jvmarg value="-Dcatalina.home=${tomcat.home.40}"/>
<jvmarg value="-Dcatalina.base=${target.tomcat40.dir}"/>
<arg value="start"/>
<classpath>
<fileset dir="${tomcat.home.40}">
<include name="bin/bootstrap.jar"/>
</fileset>
</classpath>
</java>
</target>
> Hello Yaron,
> I did not fully understand what you woould like to do with you ANT
> scripts. But I sounds like you are doing the whole build process with
> shell scripts and batch-files. Especially for this matter ANT is build.
> I am currently working on a large scale application using EJBs, Modules,
> Configuration Management, Unit Tests, etc. All the build process is done
> with ANT. Especially the Classpath thing is done using ANT as a base and
> Greebo for the Repository of the JARs.
>
> I believe that ANT is a full replacement for the make process, even
> though it gets difficult, if you would like to do loops and stuff. But
> the most stuff you will find in some plugins, and the only thing, you
> have to do, is build your build.xml.
>
> If you would like to do some stuff like starting up Tomcat , then ithis
> is possible also, but I haven't tested this, except for starting Tomcat
> up for Unit Tests, but not in a live environment.
>
> So, therefor my experience tells me that you don't have to worry about
> using ANT. You have to worry, if you are not doing it.
>
> Greets
>
> Markus M. May
>
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> Yaron Ruckenstein wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >My company's product is made out of several processes
> >such as Apache, Tomcat, Java, and more 3rd party tools.
> >
> >Currently I use .sh and .bat scripts to run the processes
> >on different platforms.
> >
> >It is very tempting to replace all these scripts with an ant script,
> >and solve issues like running on different platforms and building the
> >classpath.
> >
> >However I'm worried that using Ant is much more expensive.
> >If I do not use Ant, then I execute a shell that brings up a JVM,
> >load my process classes, and other libraries, and execute them.
> >If I use Ant, I add to this loading the ant.jar, and the build.xml,
> >and this consumes memory and CPU resources.
> >
> >Also, if I use the fork option of the Java task, then I get an extra JVM
> >for each process. If I do not, then I have a JVM that loads more classes,
> >and consumes more resources.
> >
> >I will very happy to hear you comments.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Yaron Ruckenstein
> >
> >
> >
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