Then maybe you could accomplish it by doing a copy command. Copy the file from its source to where you stage the war file, either before you execute the war task or within the war task. After I usually run my clean target, I do all my staging in the init target even if the compiled classes paths don't exist yet! I create the directories and copy my files in advance in the init target and when the javac task runs, it has no problem or issues with the folders already pre-existing; it would be the same as an incremental build or not running the clean target. I hope this helps.
> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:37:08 -0500 > Subject: Re: Copying external file into WAR > From: romsok.t...@gmail.com > To: user@ant.apache.org > > That would work for web.xml - but I would like to copy another, unrelated > properties file from an external dir to the WAR's WEB-INF. > I looked at the examples in the manual, but maybe I am missing something... > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Rez P <pon...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Check out the Ant manual, it has some examples. In the excerpt below, all > > you have to do in the war task is to change the location or path of the > > webxml attribute. If the web.xml is outside of your project in a higher > > heirachy than your project, all you have to do is to type the absolute path, > > starting at the root of the system and tell it where the web.xml is. > > > > > > > > e.g. /my/other/project/web.xml > > > > > > > > http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html > > > > > > > > <war destfile="myapp.war" webxml="src/metadata/myapp.xml"> > > <fileset dir="src/html/myapp"/> > > <fileset dir="src/jsp/myapp"/> > > <lib dir="thirdparty/libs"> > > <exclude name="jdbc1.jar"/> > > </lib> > > <classes dir="build/main"/> > > <zipfileset dir="src/graphics/images/gifs" > > prefix="images"/> > > </war> > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:17:40 -0500 > > > Subject: Copying external file into WAR > > > From: romsok.t...@gmail.com > > > To: user@ant.apache.org > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Could someone please tell me how I can accomplish the following? > > > > > > I want to build a war file. Additionally there is a configuration file > > that > > > is found outside of the WEB-INF directory, but when that WEB-INF dir is > > > packaged into the war I want to place that config file in WEB-INf in the > > war > > > - without having to copy it into the actual WEB-INF before making the WAR > > > file. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/ > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/
