Not sure if it helps you for your specific case but you might want to have a
look at the Gradle Tomcat plugin:
https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-tomcat-plugin. In case you want to use
Tomcat as a development container this might be the way to go.
Ben
DarthMaul wrote:
>
> I would like to start and stop Tomcat with Gradle tasks, but I figured I
> would start slowly and see if I could get things started first. Here is my
> task (executed on my Windows box):
>
> tomcatHome = System.getenv()["CATALINA_HOME"]
>
> task startTomcat() {
> ant.java(jar: tomcatHome + "\\bin\\bootstrap.jar'", fork: "true") {
> arg value: "start"
> classpath {
> pathelement path: tomcatHome + "\\lib"
> }
> }
> }
>
> The result is this:
>
> 19:51:38.234 [DEBUG]
> [org.gradle.api.internal.project.ant.AntLoggingAdapter]
> Execute:Java13CommandLauncher: Executing 'C:\Sun\SDK\jdk\jre\bin\java.exe'
> with arguments:
> '-classpath'
> 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\lib'
> '-jar'
> 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat
> 6.0\bin\bootstrap.jar''
> 'start'
>
> The ' characters around the executable and arguments are
> not part of the command.
> 19:51:38.343 [INFO]
> [org.gradle.api.internal.project.ant.AntLoggingAdapter] [ant:java] Unable
> to access jarfile C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat
> 6.0\bin\bootstrap.jar'
>
> Assume that file is there. Is there anything obviously wrong I am doing?
>
> Incidentally, I tried adding escaped quotation marks to account for the
> spaces in the path, but that really made things weird.
>
> Any insight would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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