Re: [OT] newbie confused by struts and ant

2006-10-11 Thread Laurie Harper
Marked off-topic, as Struts doesn't care what build tools you use; this is really a 'how does ant work?' thread. That said, Sandeep is right, Ant doesn't care where you put your files. It's up to you to tell Ant what to do and where to find things. If you want to just re-use an existing build.

Re: newbie confused by struts and ant

2006-10-10 Thread Sandeep Gupta
Rick, You can manually configure all the directorires from where ANT should pick up the source and resource files from. They need not be in any specific format. But as the directory structure of WAR is fixed you will then have to manually code in Ant Script to build the WAR (in the format specifi

Re: newbie confused by struts and ant

2006-10-10 Thread Rick Schumeyer
After further contemplation I realized that the mailreader application is in WAR format. I'm guessing that during development, what is under the ant "build" directory is WAR format. So the example applications are equivalent to what would be under the "build" directory, plus the java code. (

newbie confused by struts and ant

2006-10-10 Thread Rick Schumeyer
I'm trying to get into the struts game, which means I'm simultaneously trying to come up to speed on at least three Apache projects: tomcat, ant, and struts. Plus servlets and jsps. I'm sorry if this is a basic question, but I'm a little flustered. Ant seems to expect a certain directory str