That's the problem - the *webinf *tag allows you to specify a source folder to become the *webinf *folder in the war - but it assumes everything is already in it. So copying seems like the only option.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Moore, Kent <kent.mo...@fisglobal.com>wrote: > No need to copy stuff around when creating archives - pick it up from > wherever it is. > > > To include stuff in the WEB-INF folder, see the webinf section of the > war man page --> http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/war.html. > > > End up with something like this: > > <war destfile="${pub.dir}/${release.war}" > webxml="${websrc.dir}/WEB-INF/web.xml" duplicate="fail"> > <classes dir="${classes.prod.dir}"> > <include name="**/*.class"/> > </classes> > <fileset dir="${websrc.dir}"> > <exclude name="**/*.xml"/> > </fileset> > <fileset dir="${genSrc.dir}"/> > <lib dir="${lib.dir}"> > <patternset refid="dependent.libraries"/> > <patternset refid="other.libraries"/> > </lib> > <webinf dir="${websrc.dir}"> > <include name="struts-config.xml"/> > <include name="cachespec.xml"/> > </webinf> > </war> > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rez P [mailto:pon...@hotmail.com] > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 12:23 PM > To: Ant > Subject: RE: Copying external file into WAR > > > 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/ > > _____________ > > The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or > confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the > message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message > in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please > be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving > and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. > _____________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > >
