Ant script not finding my build.properties file

[Sege Stephen]

Hi, I have my ant Script, I am working through the spring tutorial.

The build.properties and build.xml are on the same level in my springapp package, but anytime it tries to read a value from the build.properties file, it comes up with any error.

Here is my ant Script

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"/>
 
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<!-- 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="${application.lib}">
            <include name="catalina-ant.jar"/>
        </fileset>
    </path>
 
 
    <taskdef name="install" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.InstallTask">
        <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath"/>
    </taskdef>
    <taskdef name="reload" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask">
        <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath"/>
    </taskdef>
    <taskdef name="list" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask">
        <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath"/>
    </taskdef>
    <taskdef name="start" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.StartTask">
        <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="stop" description="Stop Tomcat application">
        <stop 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>
 
<!-- End Tomcat tasks -->
 
</project>    

and here is the build.properties

appserver.home=${user.home}/apache-tomcat-6.0.18

appserver.lib=${appserver.home}/lib

deploy.path=${appserver.home}/lib

tomcat.manager.url=http://localhost:8080/manager
tomcat.manager.username=tomcat
tomcat.manager.password=s3cret

When I run ant, i get this error message

BUILD FAILED
C:\Documents and Settings\se1025\workspace\springapp\build.xml:87: C:\Documents
and Settings\se1025\workspace\springapp\${application.lib} not found.



i get this error when I run ant list if I substitue ${appserver.lib}with the value C:/apache-tomcat-6.0.18. It builds, then I run ant list and get this


list:

BUILD FAILED
java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ${tomcat.manager.url}/list
        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:567)
        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:464)
        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:413)
        at org.apache.catalina.ant.AbstractCatalinaTask.execute(AbstractCatalina
Task.java:172)

[ August 27, 2008: Message edited by: Sege Stephen ]

[Peter Johnson]

Try running ant with the -v option, this might tell you a little more about what is going on.
[ August 27, 2008: Message edited by: Peter Johnson ]