deploying webapps from ant

[Keith Hankin]

I am trying to deploy my webapps from ant, however my undeploy task does 
not always work. It quietly informs me that everything is ok, however 
the webapps subdirectory still exists, with at least some of the files 
still there. Tomcat appears to be holding onto locks on the files and 
they cannot be deleted. This is with both Tomcat 4 and Tomcat 5, running 
on Windows XP. Here is my ant code showing my undeploy task:

   <target name="webapp.check">
       <fail unless="tomcat.url"
             message="tomcat.url is not specified in local.properties 
file."/>
       <fail unless="tomcat.manager.url"
             message="tomcat.manager.url is not specified in 
local.properties file."/>
       <fail unless="tomcat.manager.username"
             message="tomcat.manager.username is not specified in 
local.properties file."/>
       <fail unless="tomcat.manager.password"
             message="tomcat.manager.password is not specified in 
local.properties file."/>
       <condition property="tomcat.is.started">
           <http url="${tomcat.url}"/>
       </condition>
       <condition property="webapp.is.deployed">
           <and>
               <isset property="tomcat.is.started"/>
               <http url="${tomcat.url}/${ant.project.name}"/>
           </and>
       </condition>
   </target>
   
   <target name="undeploy" depends="webapp.check" if="webapp.is.deployed">
       <taskdef name="remove" 
classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.RemoveTask">
           <classpath>
               <path location="${tomcatHome}/server/lib/catalina-ant.jar"/>
           </classpath>
       </taskdef>
       <remove url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
                username="${tomcat.manager.username}"
                password="${tomcat.manager.password}"
                path="/${ant.project.name}"/>
   </target>

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