Ant script src\src does not exist

[balaji gadamsetty]

Hello,

I am just beginner learning Ant script by going through forums and books.
I am stuck at initial point itself so I am looking for some help from this huge forum

I attached a file, which is about my project structure and build.xml is copied below

build.xml
-----------

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<project name="AntWebProjExample" default="war">
 
<path id="compile.classpath">
<fileset dir="WebRoot/WEB-INF/lib">
<include name="*.jar"/>
</fileset>
</path>
 
<target name="init">
<mkdir dir="build/classes"/>
<mkdir dir="dist" />
</target>
 
<target name="compile" depends="init" >
<javac destdir="build/classes" debug="true" srcdir="src">
<classpath refid="compile.classpath"/>
</javac>
</target>
 
<target name="war" depends="compile">
<war destfile="dist/AntWebProjExample.war" webxml="WebRoot/WEB-INF/web.xml">
<fileset dir="WebRoot"/>
<lib dir="WebRoot/WEB-INF/lib"/>
<classes dir="build/classes"/>
</war>
</target>
 
<target name="clean">
<delete dir="dist" />
<delete dir="build" />
</target>
 
</project>

when I compile I am getting below exception:

Buildfile: C:\FUN\STUDY\SampleProjects\AntWebProjExample\src\build.xml
init:
compile:

BUILD FAILED
C:\FUN\STUDY\SampleProjects\AntWebProjExample\src\build.xml:16: srcdir "C:\FUN\STUDY\SampleProjects\AntWebProjExample\src\src" does not exist!

Total time: 183 milliseconds

Why is it looking for src inside src folder? please help me. Thanks in Adavce

-Balaji

[Peter Johnson]

balaji, welcome to Java Ranch!

The build.xml file is in the wrong location. It should be in the base directory of the project, not in the src directory.

The error that you are getting says that it expected to find a src subdirectory under the directory that contains build.xml. And since build.xml is at AntWebProject/src, then it expects to find AntWebProject/src/src. In general, all relative paths specified in build.xml are relative to the directory containing build.xml, regardless of the directory from which you issued the ant command.