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Ant: How to place resource files into bottom of package level structure?

 
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Title: Ant: How to place resource files into bottom of package level structure?

Hello,

Have the following sample project structure:



Wrote an Ant build script which does this:

(1) Creates a build directory

(2) Compiles the Java code into the build directory

(3) Packages the compiled code into a war file

(4) Moves the war file into $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps

Ant build script:



When I run this build script, it places the mysite.war file under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps,
which, in turn, unpacks itself like this:

$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/mysite/WEB-INF/classes/example/HelloWorld.class

What I need is the english.properties (located inside the resources folder) to be parallel with HelloWorld.class.

Am manually doing this by explicitly putting in the directory name inside my compile target:



As you can see this will introduce problems because I am setting the directory structure manually.

What would happen if my package changed to com.mycompany?

I would need the english.properties files to be placed like this:

$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/mysite/WEB-INF/classes/com/mycompany/english.properties

I have already tried using an asterisk wildcard:



But, that broke the build (causing errors while running Ant)!

Would appreciate it if someone can help me with this issue.

Happy programming...
 
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James Dekker wrote:Title: Ant: How to place resource files into bottom of package level structure?

...

As you can see this will introduce problems because I am setting the directory structure manually.

What would happen if my package changed to com.mycompany?

I would need the english.properties files to be placed like this:

$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/mysite/WEB-INF/classes/com/mycompany/english.properties



Any good reasons that you do not want to put the resource file like WEB-INF/english.properties or even better WEB-INF/config/english.properties?
 
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Per your suggestion, I did change my build script to make a WEB-INF/config directory and move the properties files into that directory.

The same thing happens! They are not loaded by the JSP...

Excerpts from build.xml:



My HelloWorld.jsp (located under webapps/mysite/example/):



Properties files which reside under resources dir and are moved into WEB-INF/config:

package_es.properties:



package.properties:



(1) How can I just make them go to the most bottom level folder under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/mysite/classes/example/ ?

What would happen if I refactored this package to something else:

com.mycompany.hello

(2) How could the Ant build script know to place them inside:

$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/mysite/classes/com/mycompany/hello

(3) Otherwise, how would I use your suggestion (make the web page look under WEB-INF/config)?

Happy programming.
 
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