Is it possible to use the <install> ant task to deploy to a remote server? I would
think so, but it
seems that the Manager app of Tomcat tries to load the "context" file on the remote
server...
<install url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
username="${tomcat.username}"
password="${tomcat.password}"
config="file:${webapp.dist}/${webapp.name}.xml"
war="jar:file:${webapp.dist}/${webapp.war}!/"/>
Is there anyway to do this, i.e. packaging the context.xml in the JAR and telling the
manager app
to get it from there - or can I only deploy to localhost when I have a context.xml
involved?
On another note, is it possible to put all the ant task definitions in a file that can
be referenced
when - so all tasks can be declared at once. Cactus does this and it's a handy
feature. I've
added it to my project by doing the following.
1. Created a tomcatTasks.properties file with the following contents:
deploy=org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask
install=org.apache.catalina.ant.InstallTask
list=org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask
reload=org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask
remove=org.apache.catalina.ant.RemoveTask
resources=org.apache.catalina.ant.ResourcesTask
roles=org.apache.catalina.ant.RolesTask
start=org.apache.catalina.ant.StartTask
stop=org.apache.catalina.ant.StopTask
undeploy=org.apache.catalina.ant.UndeployTask
2. Define my tasks using:
<taskdef file="${ant-contrib.dir}/tomcatTasks.properties">
<classpath>
<pathelement path="${tomcat.home}/server/lib/catalina-ant.jar"/>
</classpath>
</taskdef>
This certainly cuts down on the size of my build.xml file by about 20 lines!
Thanks,
Matt
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