Re: Tomcat's Ant Tasks [Install]

Andrew Shirk Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:48:00 -0800

The trick is to use the deploy task rather than the install task, and include the context.xml (make sure it's named context.xml) in the META-INF directory inside the war file. Tomcat will find the context file, and add the contents to the server.xml file. Then, use redeploy to deploy changes, or undeploy to remove. Once you've got that all set up, it works remarkably well.

Andrew

At 04:22 PM 1/21/2004, Matt Raible wrote:

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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