Ant - exploded (non compressed) war file problem

[Paul Kerr]

Hi,

I'm currently using Ant to deploy my (compressed) ear file containing my application and also an associated war file that contains all web resources for the app (javascript, images, css etc).

I want the resources war file to be UNcompressed so I can change it directly on the server without having to recompile, deploy etc a reasonably heavyweight enterprise app.

I thought I'd be able to easily do this by setting the compress attribute of the war tag to false/no/off - but when I do this, the resultant war file is still compressed. Eg

<war destfile="${build.directory}/${war.name}" webxml="web/WEB-INF/web.xml" basedir="${web.dir}" compress="no" />

I've also tried using the jar tag Eg

<jar destfile="${build.directory}/${war.name}" basedir="${web.dir}" compress="no"/>

...but to no avail...

Has anyone had any experience or ever wanted to do this? Any advice would be gratefully received - I'm sure this should be easy :-)

Cheers,

Paul

[Purushoth Thambu]

You must be using unwar or unjar ant tasks. jar with compress options will determine whether the files should be compressed and zip/jar'ed and will not extract the files.

See this link

[Paul Kerr]

Thanks for your reply...

I appears I was just being daft...What I wanted to accomplish could be done with a simple copy tag Eg:

<copy todir="${build.directory}/${war.name}">
<fileset dir="${web.dir}" excludes="build.xml" />
</copy>

the crucial bit I was missing was that an exploded war is just a directory with a filename like xxxxx.war - I was trying to create one using a war tag when all I needed to do was copy the directory.....d'oh :-)

Cheers
[ November 01, 2007: Message edited by: Paul Kerr ]