I'm new to the ANT world, but why don't you use the war task?
http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/war.html
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Steve Prior <spr...@geekster.com> wrote:
> I know this is a long shot, but I'm running out of ideas. I'm trying to
> build a war file from ant using ivy dependencies, but the resulting war file
> is not working and I've determined that the .class files built in the webapp
> project itself are getting corrupted during an ant copy task. After some
> research I see that this is possible if you have any filters enabled, but as
> far as I know I don't have any, yet the corruption happens anyway. The code
> for the copy invocation is:
>
> <copy todir="${dir.build.tmp}/WEB-INF/classes">
> <fileset dir="${dir.build.classes.main}">
> <include name="**/*.class"/>
> <include name="**/*.properties"/>
> </fileset>
> </copy>
>
> See, no filters at all.
>
> So the question is by any chance does the inclusion of ivy into the mix by
> some chance add in any global filters which might be kicking in and causing
> the problem? This problem is happening on a Windows XP machine. I haven't
> done anything to set LANG because as far as I know it's needed when filters
> are involved and I don't (knowingly) have any. If not, any other ideas?
>
> I'm asking on this list because even though you don't see any ivy code in
> the above fragment, it's all around it in the build.xml I'm using.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Steve
>
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Filipe Sousa
