Let us start this project

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Hi all.
as we all know that ant is a build tool for java.
I want to package a complete J2EE application using ant, I have tried ant many times to build but always there are errors.
so, I want to ask you a big question.
can you post here a complete ant build file that complie and package the ejbs and packge the web application into single ear file.
I am sure that there are many novices (like me) that want to learn how to unleashed the power of ant
and use it to build there application, so I am really appreciate your time and your help to us.
amigo, allow me to begin this project:
assume that we have the following structure :

  
j2ee-app -- src -- META-INF -- Session -- META-INF -- ejb-jar.xml
                  |       |
                  |       -- Entity -- META-INF -- ejb-jar.xml
                  |       |
                  |       -- Application -- META-INF -- application.xml
                  |       |
                  |       -- App-Client -- META-INF -- application-client.xml
                  |
                   --- com 
                  |
                   --- build.xml

where com folder contains the java source files for the ejb and for the client.
please, if you have any correction or suggestions that will make this project easier to build,
please tell us.
(as you see, I don't know where to put the web application dir.)

[Ilja Preuss]

Originally posted by John Todd:
I want to package a complete J2EE application using ant, I have tried ant many times to build but always there are errors.
so, I want to ask you a big question.
can you post here a complete ant build file that complie and package the ejbs and packge the web application into single ear file.

I think you could give us a good headstart by showing what you tried so far and what problems you encountered.