hi phil,
the issue has already been solved on the ant mailinglist.
if any tomcat-user is interested, I post the answer of Jake here:
If various lib.xml files contain contents similar to your <copy> task
below, the build.xml file might look like....
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE project [
<!ENTITY lib-project1 SYSTEM "file:./lib1.xml">
<!ENTITY lib-project2 SYSTEM "file:./lib2.xml">
]>
<project name="MyProject" default="compile" basedir="." >
...
...
...
<target name="copyjars">
&lib-project1;
&lib-project2;
</target>
...
...
...
</project>
Jake
Johannes
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> Hi Jerome,
>
> Yes, certainly that's what I thought at the first glance as well.
>
> But wouldn't it make more sense to make the fileset importable from
> another file (i.e. extend the FileSet datatype to allow imports from
> another file)?
> e.g.
> build.xml:
> <copy todir="${build.home}/WEB-INF/lib">
> <fileset src="lib.xml" />
> </copy>
>
> lib.xml:
> <fileset dir="${lib.home}">
> <include name="cos.jar" />
> <include name="cos2.jar" />
> ....
> </fileset>
>
> ==> but since I'm not yet an ant expert, I don't know where to start to
> extend the FileSet datatype of ant. Anybody any ideas?
> I think this kind of action (=reading a tag from an external file) could
> be required more often, so I think it would make sense to extend the
> FileSet datatype.
>
> Has anybody a good idea where to start?
> (probably at the ant mailinglist :)?
This really is a question for the Ant list.
You might be able to solve your problem, however, using the "XML
include" technique described in
http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#xml-entity-include, or by just piping the
lib file list in on the command line, using:
http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#passing-cli-args
-Phil
>
> thx,
> Johannes
>
>
>
>
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> jerome moliere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 30.03.2003 14:26
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>I know this is more a question about ant, but maybe a tomcat user here
>
> has
>
>>faced the same issue as I do when using a central lib directory for all
>
> of
>
>>the JAR files in the various webapps:
>>
>>In the prepare task I copy the JAR files I need for my webapp into the
>>WEB-INF/lib folder in the build path:
>>===============
>><copy todir="${build.home}/WEB-INF/lib">
>> <fileset dir="${lib.home}">
>> <include name="cos.jar" />
>> <include name="cos2.jar" />
>> ....
>> </fileset>
>></copy>
>>=================
>>
>>However, this library listing is the only thing which distinguishes the
>>various build.xml files for my different webapps.
>>I'd prefer to have only ONE build.xml file for all of my webapps so they
>>all have the same structure.
>>
>>How can I import a fileset like above from a separate filename?
>>(so I can have
>>*) ONE build.xml for all of my webapps and
>>*) a specific lib.xml for each of my webapps?
>>
>>thx alot
>>Johannes
>>
>>
>
> Hi Johannes,
> why not coding your own task ? reading a single filename then copying
> files is an easy task to be coded in Java isn't it ?
>
> HTH
> Jerome
>
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