Here are some snippets, I hope this will help you to get it to work. The
documentation for AntServer is quite poor, I agree. The example doesn't work
because the runant-node is closed with a runtarget node. Never theless here is
the code that works for me. I'll write few words to explain how to use it:
On the remote machine you need to start the remoteAnt Server. To do so run
start.ant.server on the remote machine.
yab.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<project name="RMI" basedir="." default="jar">
<!-- path to external jars -->
<path id="classpath">
<fileset dir="path/to/libs">
<include name="**/*.*jar"/>
</fileset>
</path>
<!-- This target launches a server. Blocking call! the server opens a
socket and waits for input. -->
<target name="start.ant.server" depends="declare">
<!-- make sure the ant-contrib--0.6.jar is in your classpath-->
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties">
<classpath refid="classpath"/>
</taskdef>
<antserver port="12345" />
</target>
<target name="remoteant">
<echo message="Hello runant, ${build.type}"/>
<sleep seconds="4"/>
</target>
</project>
Run these targets on the local machine to execute a task or buildfile on the
remote machine. Note: after running a single target, ie.
exec.task.on.remote.ant.server, the AntServer needs to be started again. To
find out why I started this thread:
...
<!-- These targets execute a target specified in this buildfile given
in the nested runtarget node. -->
<target name="exec.task.on.remote.ant.server" depends="declare">
<remoteant machine="130.248.124.14" port="12345"
persistant="false" failonerror="true">
<runtarget target="task.on.remote.machine">
<property name="prop.type" value="respect!" />
</runtarget>
</remoteant>
</target>
<!-- This target is excuted on the remote machine by the target above.
-->
<target name="task.on.remote.machine">
<echo message="Hello task.on.remote.machine, ${prop.type}"/>
<sleep seconds="3"/>
</target>
<!-- This target runs a target from a buildfile on the remote machine.
-->
<target name="run.remote.buildfile" depends="declare">
<remoteant machine="130.248.124.14" port="12345"
persistant="false" failonerror="true">
<runant dir="." target="remoteant" antfile="yab.xml">
<property name="build.type" value="respect!" />
<reference refid="my.ref"
torefid="inherited.ref" />
</runant>
</remoteant>
</target>
...
Am 10.06.2005 um 20:40 schrieb S I:
Please indulge us by posting a snippet of your code. I would really appreciate
it. For the life of me, I still have not figured out what to make of the
cryptic Antcontrib documention written SO BADLY and ambiguously. And the
examples are very vague too. I apologize for that. I'm just very frustrated
with Antcontrib & its author who needs to take a course in writing.
I wanna be able from my winXP destop running my ant script to be able to stop
Tomcat on the linux server, unzip and dump my war files under tomcat/webapps
and restart Tomcat. I have not been able to this and I'm not at all clear or
sure what needs to be done on the xp side and what exactly needs to be done on
the linux server side?
So you will need to start an Ant-Server on the linux box. Then execute a
buildfile as in "run.remote.buildfile" that does unzipping and dumping of your
wars, etc The buildfile would need to be on the linux machine.
or define all the targets on in the buildfile on the win machine and use the
"exec.task.on.remote.ant.server" example.
I hope this helps.
Jacques
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