Error while running "war" task (Resolved)

[amit punekar]

Hi all,
I am using "war" task to build a WAR file as below

	<target name="create-war" depends="clean-dist">	
		<war destfile="${basedir}/dist/myapp.war" casesensitive="true">
			<classes dir="${classes}" includes="**/*">			
			</classes>		
			
			<fileset dir="${basedir}/WebContent" casesensitive="yes">	
				<exclude name="META-INF/**"></exclude>
				<exclude name="WEB-INF/**"></exclude>
			</fileset>
			<lib dir="${lib}"/>
			<webinf  dir="${basedir}/WebContent/WEB-INF" casesensitive="true" >
					<include name="web.xml"/>
					<include name="struts-config.xml"/>
					<include name="tiles-defs.xml"/>
			</webinf>
			<metainf dir="${basedir}/WebContent/META-INF" casesensitive="true"/>		
		</war>
	</target>

While I am running this build.xml from one of the Eclipse Ganymede dynamic web project, I am getting the following error -
source\build.xml:64: No WEB-INF/web.xml file was added.
If this is your intent, set needxml='false'

I have another web project in the same workspace where the same build.xml file works without any problem.
I am using Ant version 1.7.1.
Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Amit

[amit punekar]

Hi there,
I have resolved the issue by adding a "mkdir" task inside the "target" mentioned in the earlier post.
The wrong error message is shown by Ant 1.7.1 when "dist" folder was not present in the directory structure. I created the directory manually and then the task ran fine.
Hence I added the "mkdir" in the target so that every time if directory is not present , ant will create the directory.

Regards,
Amit

[Omar Al Kababji]

Just to be a bit picky, why you are excluding the WEB-INF and META-INF directory when you copy WebContent

<fileset dir="${basedir}/WebContent" casesensitive="yes">     
       <exclude name="META-INF/**"></exclude>  
       <exclude name="WEB-INF/**"></exclude>  
</fileset>  

and then you add them from manually

 <webinf  dir="${basedir}/WebContent/WEB-INF" casesensitive="true" >  
        <include name="web.xml"/>  
        <include name="struts-config.xml"/>  
        <include name="tiles-defs.xml"/>  
 </webinf>  
 <metainf dir="${basedir}/WebContent/META-INF" casesensitive="true"/>   

[amit punekar]

hi,
I think I did that because I did not want the other content in WEB-INF and META-INF to be copied in final WAR.

regds,
Amit