Ok, Erik, I'm with you on this. You were thinking exactly what I was
thinking -- I tried this, but couldn't get it to work. In the Ant war task
I tried to include the slide.properties file in the nested classes element
as follows:
-------<snippet>-------------
<target name="dist" depends="ginsu_jar"
description="generate the distribution" >
<!-- Create the distribution directory -->
<mkdir dir="${dist}"/>
<!-- Put everything in ${build} into the ginsu.jar file -->
<war destfile="${dist}/ginsu.war" webxml="src/metadata/web.xml">
<fileset dir="${metadata}" excludesfile="${metadata}/web.xml">
</fileset>
<!-- <classes dir="${build}"/> -->
<classes dir="${metadata}"
includesfile="src/metadata/slide.properties"/>
<lib dir="lib"/>
<!-- <classes dir="build/ginsu"/> -->
<zipfileset dir="src/images"
prefix="images"/>
</war>
</target>
--------</snippet>------------
Note, that when I uncomment the <classes dir="$build}"/> line (where build
is a directory where only class files reside), a classes directory is
created in my war file. But when I use the classes element as is above,
everything builds fine in ant, but I get no classes directory in my war
file. My guess is that this classes element only allows files of type
*.class. Any thoughts?
Erik, you were right about tomcat looking in the classes directory as part
of it's classpath. Makes total sense.
-Thanks, dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:03 AM
To: Slide Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: tomcat and slide.properties
Have you tried putting slide.properties in the WEB-INF/classes
directory of your WAR file? Using Ant, if you are using the <war>
task to build a WAR file, use the nested <classes> element to put it
there. Or, if you are using <jar> to build a WAR file (which is
perfectly fine to do), use a <zipfileset prefix="WEB-INF/classes">.
I'm just answering the Ant part of the question - I don't know if Slide
is cool with the .properties file there or not.
Erik
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 09:55 AM, Tarkenton, Daniel S. wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> In a standalone application using the low level slide api (_not
> webdav_), I
> can add the location of my slide.properties file to my system
> classpath.
> The main purpose for having a slide.properties file is to tell slide
> the
> location of the all important Domain.xml config file for slide. Well,
> now I
> am trying to figure out how to put slide.properties into tomcat.
>
> I am using Ant to deploy my application into a war file. I basically
> just
> drop this file into tomcat's webapps dir, restart tomcat, and go to
> town. I
> am having problems getting Ant to automatically put slide.properties
> into a
> specific directory of my war file so that tomcat won't require any
> classpath
> configuration. I'm looking for the solution of just dropping my war
> file
> into tomcat, and allowing users to start accessing the web app.
>
> If anyone responds I will include my ant file and/or my source
> directory
> structure for clarification if need be.
>
> Thanks a lot guys.
>
> -Dan
>
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