start/stop Sun Application server from ant build.xml

[Bhaarat Sharma]

Hi

I am very new to ant. I currently use an ant build.xml to compile my project and build an EAR file. I would like this ant script to further stop then start my sun app server once the building of EAR is done.

Can someone please tell me how I should go about doing this?

currently i start/stop my sun app server via cmd promp like this:

asadmin:> stop-domain
asadmin:> start-domain

I'd appreciate any help. i looking around on google and found ant code used to start stop tomcat server but not sun app server.

Thanks

[Nathan Pruett]

It appears that Sun ONE application server provides some ANT tasks. Is this the version you were looking for?

[Bhaarat Sharma]

Yes i have antaks in the version i am running. but my build.xml (one i used to compile my code) is not related to sun app server at all. So i am clueless as to what lines of code i should be adding into this build.xml so that i can start/stop or even deploy/undeploy application on sun app server via this build.xml

[Bhaarat Sharma]

this is what i've tried

my ant: std.build is the target that does the compiling and building of EAR file after that i call the undeploy target.

    <target name="others.build" unless="build.sagis">
        <echo message="using this current build script (build.xml)"/>
        <antcall target="std.build"/>
        <echo message="finished building ${subsystem}!!!!!"/>
        <echo message="trying to deploy from app server"/>
        <antcall target="undeploy-sun-test"/>
        <echo message="finished deploying from app server"/>
    </target>

sun app server deploy/undeploy targets

<target name="sun-taskdef">
        <taskdef name="sun-appserv-deploy" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.sun.appserv.DeployTask">
            <classpath>
                <pathelement location="C:\SunMine\AppServer\lib\ant\lib\ant.jar" />
                <pathelement location="C:\SunMine\AppServer\lib\admin-cli.jar" />
            </classpath>
        </taskdef>
        <taskdef name="sun-appserv-undeploy" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.sun.appserv.UndeployTask">
            <classpath>
                <pathelement location="C:\SunMine\AppServer\lib\ant\lib\ant.jar" />
                <pathelement location="C:\SunMine\AppServer\lib\admin-cli.jar" />
            </classpath>
        </taskdef>
 </target>
 
     <target name="undeploy-sun-test" depends="sun-taskdef">
         <sun-appserv-undeploy name="eiv"
                               user="admin"
                               password="admin12345"
                               host="localhost"
                               port="3695" />
    </target>

however, the error i am getting is:

taskdef class org.apache.tools.ant.tasksdefs.optional.sun.appserv.DeployTask cannot be found

i am new to ant so..do i need to declare this class someplace?

Also, how does one delete a file in ant
[ September 12, 2007: Message edited by: bhaarat sharma ]

[Nathan Pruett]

I don't know if this is the cause of the error, because it was correct one place and wrong the other, but -

org.apache.tools.ant.tasksdefs.optional.sun.appserv.DeployTask

should just be -

org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.sun.appserv.DeployTask


Other than that - if the paths to the Jars in the classpaths are correct - everything else looks OK.