I got a lot of personal responses from many people, with queries on how to use the contrib. Here's a quick start-up guide:
In the released version, this contrib can perform two tasks - *Property Injection*: More about this here - http://code.google.com/p/ant-web-tasks/wiki/PropertyInjection. Underneath is a simple build.xml file's snippet to achieve the same. <taskdef name="powerWar" classname="com.avlesh.antwebtasks.war.PowerWAR" > classpath="/path/to/ant-web-tasks.jar"/> > <target name="my-war-target"> > <powerWar destfile="distribution/myapp.war" webxml="web/WEB-INF/web.xml" > compress="true"> > <!-- > Replaces all ${BUILD.PROPERTY.NAME <http://build.property.name/>} > inside all ".xml" and ".properties" > files in the "web" directory minus the "web.xml" file. > > Note: > 1. You can specify multiple <fileset> elements inside a single > inject. > 2. In this usage, the original files are not modified. Only the > file's > InputStream is changed. > --> > <inject verbose="on"> > <fileset dir="web"> > <include name="**/*.xml"/> > <include name="**/*.properties"/> > <exclude name="**/web.xml" /> > </fileset> > </inject> > > <classes dir="${build.dir}/classes"/> > <lib dir="${lib.dir}"> > <include name="*.jar" /> > </lib> > <fileset dir="web"> > <exclude name="**/web.xml" /> > </fileset> > </powerWar> > </target> > *Cache Busting*: For details go here - http://code.google.com/p/ant-web-tasks/wiki/CacheBusting. Underneath is the simplest build.xml snippet to make it work - <taskdef name="powerWar" classname="com.avlesh.antwebtasks.war.PowerWAR" > classpath="/path/to/ant-web-tasks.jar"/> > <target name="my-war-target"> > <powerWar destfile="distribution/myapp.war" webxml="web/WEB-INF/web.xml" > compress="true"> > > <cacheBuster verbose="on" versionFile="version.txt"> > <fileset dir="web"> > <include name="**/*.jsp"/> > </fileset> > <rule from="/mysite/css/(.*).css" > to="/mysite/css/$1.css?random=%{version-file-txt}"/> > > <rule from="/js/(.*).js" > to="/js/(.*)-%{version-file-txt}.js/> > > </cacheBuster> > > ... > </powerWar> > </target> > Feedback, suggestions, contributions all welcome ... Cheers Avlesh On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Avlesh Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > I have added some zing to the existing WAR task and made it do a lot more > with this contrib - http://code.google.com/p/ant-web-tasks/ > I would love to hear from everyone - Ant users, developers. > > Cheers > Avlesh >
