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Petar Tahchiev reassigned CACTUS-126:
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Assignee: Petar Tahchiev
> JarList reference for cactifywar task
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> Key: CACTUS-126
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CACTUS-126
> Project: Cactus
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Ant Integration
> Environment: All platforms
> Reporter: James Carpenter
> Assignee: Petar Tahchiev
> Priority: Minor
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> When using the cactifywar ant task one can inject additional libraries into
> the cactified war by using the nested lib element. The problem is that there
> is no way to inject a whole list of jars by reference. In a more advanced
> build design one is likely to use the new ant 1.6 import feature which allows
> a build to inherit the majority of its functionality. In such a situation it
> is very awkward to have to override the ant task responsible for calling the
> cactifywar task just to add a few more libraries.
> To be fair this problem is really a deficiency in the Ant War and Jar tasks.
> To fix it one will probably want to create a new datatype that supports
> mulitple jars. An example usage of the sort of thing I am talking about is
> demonstrated below.
> <jarlist id="my.jarlist.ref">
> <lib file="somefile.jar"/>
> <lib file="someotherfile.jar"/>
> </jarlist>
> <cactifywar srcfile="${dist.home}/${war.name}"
> destfile="${dist.home}/${cactus-war.name}"
> mergewebxml="${cactus-web.path}">
> <classes dir="${testbuild.classes.dir}"/>
> <jarlist refid="my.jarlist.ref"/>
> <servletredirector/>
> <servletredirector name="ServletRedirectorSecure"
> mapping="/ServletRedirectorSecure" roles="test"/>
> <filterredirector mapping="/test/filterRedirector.jsp"/>
> </cactifywar>
> Such functionality would let one do things like this in the ant task:
> <project name="ExampleWebComponent" default="usage" basedir=".">
> <import file="../webcomponentbuild.xml"/>
> <target name="init.jarlist.refs" depends="init.properties">
> <!-- Compile Classpath -->
> <jarlist id="my.jarlist.ref">
> <lib file="somefile.jar"/>
> <lib file="someotherfile.jar"/>
> </jarlist>
> </target>
> </project>
> There are lots of potential variations on the sort of thing I am describing.
> The objective is bury the details of calling the cactifywar task in an
> imported ant file and only override the target necessary to set a reference
> to a list of jars to pack into the cactified war.
> Note: A fileset reference won't work well for the jarlist datatype since all
> the jars would then have to be under a single directory.
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