Yep that will package spurious jars into a new uber-war...BTW in maven you
could use <dependency-management> to accomplish this objective
Glad to hear you got this problem solved..thanks for the info
Martin > Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:54:22 -0700
> From: sanjiv_tha...@yahoo.com
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Create WEB-INF/lib based on path-structure
>
> i went through a bunch of posts and did not find the answer. Finally i
> solved it as explained below. my way is possibly a little verbose but it
> does the job. SO my goal was to be able to include my libs(.jar files)
> which are in some third party dir referenced by $3rdParty-libs, into the
> WEB-INF/lib directory. Also the structure of my 3rd-party-libs is:
> /...../
> -3rd-party-libs/
> - cometd-2.4.3/
> - bunch of .jar files
> - commons-lang3-3.1/
> - bunch of .jar files
> - restlet-jee-2.1.2/
> - bunch of .jar files
>
> So in addition to getting all the required jar files under my war's
> WEB-INF/lib directory i did NOT want the directory structure of these jar
> files to be carried over
> i.e i did NOT want WEB-INF/lib/cometd-2.4.3/<someCometd>.jar
> i wanted it like: WEB-INF/lib/<someCometd>.jar
>
> so the simple solution is to specify the war task's <lib> nested element
> multiple times. Once per directory that you want to reference inside your
> 3rd-party-libs directory.
>
> Here is my war target:
> ================
> <target name="war" depends="compile">
> <war destfile="dist/waisApp.war" webxml="WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml"
> update="true">
> <lib dir="${3rd-party-libs}/cometd-2.4.3/">
> <include name="*.jar"/>
> </lib>
> <lib dir="${3rd-party-libs}/commons-lang3-3.1/">
> <include name="*.jar"/>
> </lib>
> <lib dir="${3rd-party-libs}/restlet-jee-2.1.2/">
> <include name="*.jar"/>
> </lib>
> <fileset dir="WebContent"/>
> <classes dir="build/classes"/>
> </war>
> </target>
>
>
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