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From: "Pinar Bicioglu" <pinarbici@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: build.xml help - making a dist
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 19:53:14 -0000
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I am myself a new user of ant. And I know what you are going through now :) 
I wrote a little script for my project with using tomcat and ant.It works 
fine. So I am going to post the part of it for you...

<property file="build.properties" />

<property name="app.name"       value="struts"/>
<property name="deploy.home"    
value="${deploy.homeRoot}/webapps/${app.name}"/>
  <property name="dist.home"      value="${deploy.homeRoot}/webapps"/>
  <property name="dist.src"       value="${app.name}.jar"/>
  <property name="dist.war"       value="${app.name}.war"/>
  <property name="javadoc.home"   value="${deploy.home}/javadoc"/>

${deploy.homeRoot} is where I installed Tomcat on my computer.

<!-- build the distribution Web Archive (WAR) and Java Archive (JAR) files 
-->
  <target name="dist" depends="compile">
    <jar jarfile="${dist.home}/${dist.war}" basedir="${deploy.home}"/>
    <jar jarfile="${dist.src}" basedir="${dist.home}/struts/WEB-INF/lib" />
  </target>

And you may want to check what the "compile" target generates in details by 
writing "ant -verbose compile" in the command line.

I believe you'll get more help than this but I'll be happy if I could help a 
little :)
Good luck,

>From: "David Koontz \(MapQuest\)" <dkoontz@mapquest.com>
>Reply-To: <dkoontz@mapquest.com>
>To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
>Subject: build.xml help - making a dist
>Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:38:45 -0600
>
>I'm a new user of ant - think I understand it ... somewhat, I got the
>included
>build.xml from somewhere and have made minor modifications for my project.
>
>Several questions have come up:
>
>1) When I build dist I get an error about "A zip file cannot include 
>itself"
>what do I have misconfigured?
>     C:\Documents and Settings\dkoontz\My
>Documents\MapQuest\VerticalMarkets\Locator>
>     > ant dist
>     Buildfile: build.xml
>     prepare:
>     compile:
>     dist:
>           [jar] Building jar:
>C:\Java\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1\webapps\CopyCenter\CopyCenter.jar
>     BUILD FAILED
>     C:\Documents and Settings\dkoontz\My
>Documents\MapQuest\VerticalMarkets\Locator\
>     build.xml:159: A zip file cannot include itself
>     Total time: 1 second
>
>It appears to make the JAR & WAR files.
>
>2) The WAR/JAR files do not have compiled class files in them - is this 
>good
>or bad?
>- I think it's bad, because the compile step is compiling and putting the
>class files in
>the TOMCAT....webapp dir.   Is this the "best practice"?
>
>
>Here's the build.xml ----
><!-- A "project" describes a set of targets that may be requested
>      when Ant is executed.  The "default" attribute defines the
>      target which is executed if no specific target is requested,
>      and the "basedir" attribute defines the current working directory
>      from which Ant executes the requested task.  This is normally
>      set to the current working directory.
>-->
>
>
><project name="CopyCenter" default="compile" basedir=".">
>
>
><!-- Property Definitions
>
>      Each of the following properties are used by convention in this
>      build file.  The values specified can be overridden at run time by
>      adding a "-Dname=value" argument to the command line that invokes 
>Ant.
>      This technique is normally used to copy the values of the ANT_HOME
>      and TOMCAT_HOME environment variables into the "ant.home" and
>      "tomcat.home" properties, which are normally not defined explicitly.
>
>      app.name          Base name of this application, used to
>                        construct filenames and directories.
>
>      deploy.home       The name of the directory into which the
>                        deployment hierarchy will be created.
>                        Normally, this will be the name of a
>                        subdirectory under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps.
>
>      dist.home        The name of the base directory in which
>                        distribution files are created.
>
>      dist.src          The name of the distribution JAR file
>                        containing the application source code,
>                        to be stored in the "dist.home" directory.
>                        This filename should end with ".jar".
>
>      dist.war          The name of the Web ARchive (WAR) file
>                        containing our deployable application.
>                        This filename should end with ".war".
>
>      javadoc.home      The name of the base directory in which
>                        the JavaDoc documentation for this application
>                        is generated.
>
>      tomcat.home       The name of the base directory in which
>                        Tomcat has been installed.  This value is
>                        normally set automatically from the value
>                        of the TOMCAT_HOME environment variable.
>
>      In the example below, the application being developed will be 
>deployed
>      to a subdirectory named "myapp", and will therefore be accessible at:
>
>        http://localhost:8080/myapp
>-->
>
>   <property name="tomcat.home"
>value="C:\Java\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1"/>
>
>   <property name="app.name"       value="CopyCenter"/>
>   <property name="deploy.home"
>value="${tomcat.home}/webapps/${app.name}"/>
>   <property name="dist.home"      value="${deploy.home}"/>
>   <property name="dist.src"       value="${app.name}.jar"/>
>   <property name="dist.war"       value="${app.name}.war"/>
>   <property name="javadoc.home"   value="${deploy.home}/javadoc"/>
>
>
><!-- The "prepare" target is used to construct the deployment home
>      directory structure (if necessary), and to copy in static files
>      as required.  In the example below, Ant is instructed to create
>      the deployment directory, copy the contents of the "web/" source
>      hierarchy, and set up the WEB-INF subdirectory appropriately.
>-->
>
>   <target name="prepare">
>     <mkdir  dir="${deploy.home}"/>
>     <copy todir="${deploy.home}">
>       <fileset dir="web"/>
>     </copy>
>     <mkdir  dir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF"/>
>     <copy  file="etc/web.xml" tofile="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/web.xml"/>
>     <mkdir  dir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/classes"/>
>     <mkdir  dir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/lib"/>
>     <copy todir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/lib">
>       <fileset dir="lib"/>
>     </copy>
>     <mkdir  dir="${javadoc.home}"/>
>   </target>
>
>
><!-- The "clean" target removes the deployment home directory structure,
>      so that the next time the "compile" target is requested, it will need
>      to compile everything from scratch.
>-->
>
>   <target name="clean">
>     <delete dir="${deploy.home}"/>
>   </target>
>
>
><!-- The "compile" target is used to compile (or recompile) the Java 
>classes
>      that make up this web application.  The recommended source code
>directory
>      structure makes this very easy because the <javac> task automatically
>      works its way down a source code hierarchy and compiles any class 
>that
>      has not yet been compiled, or where the source file is newer than the
>      class file.
>
>      Feel free to adjust the compilation option parameters (debug,
>      optimize, and deprecation) to suit your requirements.  It is also
>      possible to base them on properties, so that you can adjust this
>      behavior at runtime.
>
>      The "compile" task depends on the "prepare" task, so the deployment
>      home directory structure will be created if needed the first time.
>-->
>
>   <target name="compile" depends="prepare">
>     <javac srcdir="src" destdir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/classes"
>            classpath="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/classes"
>            debug="on" optimize="off" deprecation="on"/>
>     <copy   todir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/classes">
>       <fileset dir="src" includes="**/*.properties"/>
>     </copy>
>   </target>
>
>
><!-- The "javadoc" target is used to create the Javadoc API documentation
>      for the Java classes in this web application.  It is assumed that
>      this documentation is included in the deployed application, so the
>      example below generates the Javadoc HTML files in a subdirectory 
>under
>      the deployment home directory.  Feel free to customize the options 
>for
>      the JavaDoc task, after consulting the Ant documentation.
>-->
>
>   <target name="javadoc" depends="prepare">
>     <javadoc sourcepath="src" packagenames="*"
>                 destdir="${javadoc.home}"/>
>   </target>
>
>
><!-- The "all" target rebuilds everything by executing the "clean"
>      target first, which forces the "compile" target to compile all
>      source code instead of just the files that have been changed.
>-->
>
>   <target name="all" depends="clean,prepare,compile,javadoc"/>
>
>
><!-- The "dist" target builds the distribution Web ARchive (WAR) file
>      for this application, suitable for distribution to sites that wish
>      to install your application.  It also creates a JAR file containing
>      the source code for this application, if you wish to distribute
>      that separately.
>-->
>
>   <target name="dist" depends="prepare,compile">
>     <jar jarfile="${dist.home}/${dist.src}"
>          basedir="."/>
>     <jar jarfile="${dist.home}/${dist.war}"
>          basedir="${deploy.home}"/>
>   </target>
>
>
></project>
>
>---- end of build.xml ----
>
>
>Thanks for the help or pointers!
>
>David Koontz                dkoontz@mapquest.com
>Software Engineer - Enterprise Services
>MapQuest                     www.mapquest.com
>Denver, CO                  303 244 0305
>

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