Ant Build Script For War File

15.08.2019

Ant Build Script For War File 3,7/5 8139 votes

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Simple Ant Build Script for Eclipse Dynamic Web Project #java #ant #snippet

You'll probably have to know a little bit about Java, Ant, and build files for this sample build.xml file to be any use to you, but if you're looking for a sample Ant build script that can be used to create a war file, or one that simple uses a war task, this example might work for you. I'm not going to provide any. ANT Tutorial 05 - war, deploy, and start/stop tomcat from ANT Script. 03:40 What is the root tag of an ant build file? 05:00 How to point to the directory where the build file is in an ant.

build.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<projectbasedir='.'default='package'name='PROJECT_NAME'>

<!--

This script assumes:

1) CATALINA_HOME environment variable points to tomcat's directory

2) Following Folder Structure

./ (project root)

- src/ (project.src.dir - source folder)

- build/

- classes/ (project.classes.dir)

- WebContent/ (project.web.dir)

- lib/ (project.lib.dir)

- PROJECT_NAME.war (project.war)

3) JAVA_HOME is set and point to JDK 1.6 and above

-->

<propertyenvironment='env' />

<propertyname='TOMCAT_HOME'value='${env.CATALINA_HOME}' />

<propertyname='debuglevel'value='source,lines,vars' />

<propertyname='target'value='1.6' />

<propertyname='source'value='1.6' />

<propertyname='project.name'value='${ant.project.name}' />

<propertyname='project.web.dir'value='WebContent' />

<propertyname='project.src.dir'value='src' />

<propertyname='project.classes.dir'value='build/classes' />

<propertyname='project.lib.dir'value='${project.web.dir}/WEB-INF/lib' />

<propertyname='project.war'value='${project.name}.war' />

<propertyname='project.runtime.lib'value='${TOMCAT_HOME}/lib' />

<propertyname='project.deploy.location'value='${TOMCAT_HOME}/webapps' />

<pathid='classpath.runtime'>

<filesetdir='${project.runtime.lib}'includes='*.jar' />

</path>

<pathid='classpath.lib'>

<filesetdir='${project.lib.dir}'includes='*.jar' />

</path>

<pathid='project.classpath'>

<pathelementlocation='${project.classes.dir}' />

<pathrefid='classpath.runtime' />

<pathrefid='classoath.lib' />

</path>

<targetname='init'>

<mkdirdir='${project.classes.dir}' />

<copyincludeemptydirs='false'todir='${project.classes.dir}'>

<filesetdir='src'>

<excludename='**/*.java' />

</fileset>

</copy>

</target>

<targetname='clean'>

<deletedir='${project.classes.dir}' />

<deletedir='${project.war}' />

</target>

<targetdepends='init'name='build'description='Compiling all java files in ${project.src.dir}'>

<echomessage='${project.name}: ${ant.file}' />

<javacdebug='true'debuglevel='${debuglevel}'destdir='${project.classes.dir}'includeantruntime='false'source='${source}'target='${target}'>

<srcpath='src' />

<classpathrefid='project.classpath' />

</javac>

</target>

<targetdepends='build'name='package'description='Packagign all files into ${project.war}'>

<wardestfile='${project.war}'index='true'needxmlfile='fasle'>

<classesdir='${project.classes.dir}' />

<libdir='${project.lib.dir}' />

<filesetdir='${project.web.dir}'>

<includename='**/*.*' />

</fileset>

</war>

</target>

<targetdepends='package'name='deploy'description='Copying ${project.war} to ${project.deploy.location}'>

<copyfile='${project.war}'todir='${project.deploy.location}' />

</target>

</project>

commented Feb 15, 2015

There is a typo in line 44
should be
But then it works perfect =)

Active2 years, 2 months ago

I have created sample/default test Web project in eclipse.

Then I am using Ant to build and deploy. I export default build.xml. but this ant doesn't have task to create war file. So, I have to write task for creating war.

I used below code.

When I copy and paste the generated war in webapps. After starting Tomcat server, I found that this war is corrupt. War file is just 1KB file that contains web.xml and manifest.mf.

I would like to know:

What WAR file contains and its directory structure? What are optional and required files/folders?
Task syntax to create and war through Ant build.xml

Ant Script Tutorial

I read SO answer answer1 and answer2 , but couldn't help in my project.

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Umesh PatilUmesh Patil

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1 Answer

Your WAR file doesn't look right to me.

Content and web.xml should be at the root.
WEB-INF is at the root.
.class files in WEB-INF/classes
.jar files in WEB-INF/lib

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