That would work for web.xml - but I would like to copy another, unrelated properties file from an external dir to the WAR's WEB-INF. I looked at the examples in the manual, but maybe I am missing something...
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Rez P <pon...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Check out the Ant manual, it has some examples. In the excerpt below, all > you have to do in the war task is to change the location or path of the > webxml attribute. If the web.xml is outside of your project in a higher > heirachy than your project, all you have to do is to type the absolute path, > starting at the root of the system and tell it where the web.xml is. > > > > e.g. /my/other/project/web.xml > > > > http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html > > > > <war destfile="myapp.war" webxml="src/metadata/myapp.xml"> > <fileset dir="src/html/myapp"/> > <fileset dir="src/jsp/myapp"/> > <lib dir="thirdparty/libs"> > <exclude name="jdbc1.jar"/> > </lib> > <classes dir="build/main"/> > <zipfileset dir="src/graphics/images/gifs" > prefix="images"/> > </war> > > > > Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:17:40 -0500 > > Subject: Copying external file into WAR > > From: romsok.t...@gmail.com > > To: user@ant.apache.org > > > > Hi, > > > > Could someone please tell me how I can accomplish the following? > > > > I want to build a war file. Additionally there is a configuration file > that > > is found outside of the WEB-INF directory, but when that WEB-INF dir is > > packaged into the war I want to place that config file in WEB-INf in the > war > > - without having to copy it into the actual WEB-INF before making the WAR > > file. > > > > Thanks. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/ >
