First thanks for all the responses the first time!

What I’m trying to do:

Call Ant from a JSP page. I created a JSP page = that runs on=20 Tomcat, with an HTML text link that calls a Servlet with the following = code:

try = {

PrintWriter out =3D=20 res.getWriter();

out.write("step = 1"); =20 // debug

Process p =3D=20 Runtime.getRuntime().exec("c:\\ant\\bin\\ant.bat -buildfile=20 c:\\ant\\bin\\build.xml -logfile c:\\ant\\bin\\foo.txt");

out.write("step = 2"); =20 // debug

out.flush();

out.print("<html><head><META=20 HTTP-EQUIV=3D'Refresh'=20 CONTENT=3D'0;URL=3Dhttp://localhost:8080/foo.jsp?QProjName=3Dfoobar>&= lt;/head><body></body></html>");

out.close();

} catch (IOException = ex){

=20 =20 throw new ServletException("IOException: " + ex.toString())

=20 }

The output of the page is “step 1setp = 2”. There are NO errors=20 that I could find—checked Java Console, Tomcat DOS window, all = logs in=20 <tomcat_home>\logs. My guess is the output is causing problems. = Can=20 someone suggest an easy want to encapsulate the output for ease of=20 debugging?

The build.xml files calls Windows Command.com to = execute a=20 source safe batch file. The batch file opens a project and gets (saves = to local=20 drive) all the files from the project.

I can successfully run the string in the = .exec(minus the=20 extra ‘\’’s) from Run or an MS-DOS box.

Could someone suggest a cleaner way of doing this? =

Will there be an ANT API?

Thanks!