Building a war in eclipse using ant

[Suresh Herumb]

Hello guys

I am newbie to web dev. Could anybody tell me how to build a war file in eclipse using ant?
Thanks in advance!

sur

[Oleg Tikhonov]

Hi,
Ant has a war task.

Here is a fragment of the build.xml file

<target name="delete">

		<delete dir="${build.dir}" verbose="false"/>

		<delete file="${basedir}/${war.name}" verbose="false"/>

	</target>		


	<target name="mkdir" depends="delete">

		<mkdir dir="${build.dir}"/>

	</target>

	<target name="compile" depends="mkdir">

		<javac 

			 compiler="modern"

         	         srcdir="${src.dir}"

		         destdir="${build.dir}"

		         debug="off"

				 fork="yes"

				 failonerror="true"

			     source="1.6"


		>

				 <classpath refid="run.classpath"/>

				 <compilerarg value="-Xlint:unchecked"/>

		</javac>

	</target>

	<target name="build" depends="compile">

		<war destfile="${war.name}" webxml="${basedir}/WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml">

			 <fileset dir="${basedir}/WebContent"/>

			 <fileset dir="${src.dir}"/>

			 <classes dir="build"/>

		</war>

		<echo message="${line.separator}As fresh as a daisy ${war.name}${line.separator}served at ${basedir} ;-)"/>

	</target>

Hope it helps,
Oleg.

[Suresh Herumb]

Hi Oleg,

Thanks for the help, I didn't find time to try that.. I will and come back to you

Thanks again
Suree