Configuring Tomcat 7 with Eclipse, Ant

[Joy Vergis]

HI,
I am trying the mvc step-by-step example using eclipse indigo 3.7,Java6 and tomcat 7.0.12,built-in eclipse ant

Below is build.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="springapp" basedir="." default="usage">
    <property file="build.properties" />
    <property name="src.dir" value="src" />
    <property name="web.dir" value="war" />
    <property name="build.dir" value="${web.dir}/WEB-INF/classes" />
    <property name="name" value="springapp" />
    <path id="master-classpath">
        <fileset dir="${web.dir}/WEB-INF/lib">
            <include name="*.jar" />
        </fileset>
<!-- We need the servlet API classes: -->
<!-- * for Tomcat 5/6 use servlet-api.jar -->
<!-- * for other app servers - check the docs -->
        <fileset dir="${appserver.lib}">
            <include name="servlet*.jar" />
        </fileset>
        <pathelement path="${build.dir}" />
    </path>
    <target name="usage">
        <echo message="" />
        <echo message="${name} build file" />
        <echo message="-----------------------------------" />
        <echo message="" />
        <echo message="Available targets are:" />
        <echo message="" />
        <echo message="build --> Build the application" />
        <echo message="deploy --> Deploy application as directory" />
        <echo message="deploywar --> Deploy application as a WAR file" />
        <echo message="install --> Install application in Tomcat" />
        <echo message="reload --> Reload application in Tomcat" />
        <echo message="start --> Start Tomcat application" />
        <echo message="stop --> Stop Tomcat application" />
        <echo message="list --> List Tomcat applications" />
        <echo message="" />
    </target>
    <target name="build" description="Compile main source tree java files">
        <mkdir dir="${build.dir}" />
        <javac destdir="${build.dir}" source="1.5" target="1.5" debug="true" deprecation="false" optimize="false" failonerror="true">
            <src path="${src.dir}" />
            <classpath refid="master-classpath" />
        </javac>
    </target>
    <target name="deploy" depends="build" description="Deploy application">
        <copy todir="${deploy.path}/${name}" preservelastmodified="true">
            <fileset dir="${web.dir}">
                <include name="**/*.*" />
            </fileset>
        </copy>
    </target>
    <target name="deploywar" depends="build" description="Deploy application as a WAR file">
        <war destfile="${name}.war" webxml="${web.dir}/WEB-INF/web.xml">
            <fileset dir="${web.dir}">
                <include name="**/*.*" />
            </fileset>
        </war>
        <copy todir="${deploy.path}" preservelastmodified="true">
            <fileset dir=".">
                <include name="*.war" />
            </fileset>
        </copy>
    </target>
<!-- ============================================================== -->
<!-- Tomcat tasks - remove these if you don't have Tomcat installed -->
<!-- ============================================================== -->
    <path id="catalina-ant-classpath">
<!-- We need the Catalina jars for Tomcat -->
<!-- * for other app servers - check the docs -->
        <fileset dir="${appserver.lib}">
            <include name="catalina-ant.jar" />
        	<include name="tomcat-coyote.jar"/>
            <include name="tomcat-util.jar"/> 
        </fileset>
    	<fileset dir="${appserver.home}/bin"> 
    	<include name="tomcat-juli.jar"/>
    	</fileset> 
    </path>
    <taskdef name="install" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask">
        <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath" />
    </taskdef>
    <taskdef name="reload" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask">
        <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath" />
    </taskdef>
	<taskdef name="start" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.StartTask">
	        <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath" />
	    </taskdef>
	<taskdef name="list" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask">
        <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath" />
    </taskdef>
    <taskdef name="stop" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.StopTask">
        <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath" />
    </taskdef>
    <target name="install" description="Install application in Tomcat">
        <install url="${tomcat.manager.url}" username="${tomcat.manager.username}" password="${tomcat.manager.password}" path="/${name}" war="${name}" />
    </target>
    <target name="reload" description="Reload application in Tomcat">
        <reload url="${tomcat.manager.url}" username="${tomcat.manager.username}" password="${tomcat.manager.password}" path="/${name}" />
    </target>
    <target name="start" description="Start Tomcat application">
        <start url="${tomcat.manager.url}" username="${tomcat.manager.username}" password="${tomcat.manager.password}" path="${name}" />
    </target>    <target name="list" description="List Tomcat applications">
        <list url="${tomcat.manager.url}" username="${tomcat.manager.username}" password="${tomcat.manager.password}" />
    </target>
	<target name="stop" description="Stop Tomcat application">
	        <stop url="${tomcat.manager.url}" username="${tomcat.manager.username}" password="${tomcat.manager.password}" path="/${name}" />
	    </target>
<!-- End Tomcat tasks -->
</project>

Below is build.properties:

# Ant properties for building the springapp
appserver.home=C:/Tomcat7
# for Tomcat 5 use $appserver.home}/server/lib
# for Tomcat 6 use $appserver.home}/lib
appserver.lib=${appserver.home}/lib
deploy.path=${appserver.home}/webapps
tomcat.manager.url=http://localhost:8080/manager/text
tomcat.manager.username=root
tomcat.manager.password=admin

Tomcat-users.xml

<role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <role rolename="admin-gui"/>
  <role rolename="manager-script"/>
  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <user username="root" password="admin" roles="admin-gui,manager-gui,manager-script"/>

Error faced:

Buildfile: D:\Projects\springapp\build.xml
usage:
     [echo] springapp build file
     [echo] -----------------------------------
     [echo] Available targets are:
     [echo] build --> Build the application
     [echo] deploy --> Deploy application as directory
     [echo] deploywar --> Deploy application as a WAR file
     [echo] install --> Install application in Tomcat
     [echo] reload --> Reload application in Tomcat
     [echo] start --> Start Tomcat application
     [echo] stop --> Stop Tomcat application
     [echo] list --> List Tomcat applications
build:
    [javac] D:\Projects\springapp\build.xml:39: warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set, defaulting to build.sysclasspath=last; set to false for repeatable builds
deploy:
start:

BUILD FAILED
D:\Projects\springapp\build.xml:100: java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://localhost:8080/manager/text/start?path=springapp

Total time: 500 milliseconds

The mention above is through eclipse


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Regards,