Hi Dan,
Thanks for your response. Let me just make sure I heard you right:
So I have a javac target in my build.xml file. It simply compiles code in
${source} and puts it in {$build}. You are suggesting that I point {$build}
to the Tomcat directory?
For example, since I’m on Windows, {$build} might be:
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat
6.0\webapps\myWebApplication\WEB-INF\classes
So lets say I’ve changed some of my servlet code. Could I then just do this
to see it reflected: ?
ant javac
ant reload
ant gui
Finally, is this the “official” (or good) way to do this? In other words,
this isn’t a “hack” or anything?
Daniel Gresh wrote:
>
> James Javaman wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to setup a build.xml file for a servlet. I am using the
>> following 2 URL's as references:
>>
>> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/manager-howto.html#Executing%20Manager%20Commands%20With%20Ant
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.onjava.com/onjava/2003/01/08/examples/build.xml.html
>>
>>
>> So my problem is I don't understand how day-to-day development would work
>> using this build.xml file. For example, let's say I change some code
>> that
>> will run on the servlet in a file called: MyServlet.java.
>> What series of ant commands would I run to reflect the change? Would
>> it be:
>> ant undeploy
>> ant deploy
>> ant gui
>>
>> I'm just asking because it seems like 'ant undeploy' and 'ant deploy' are
>> time-consuming to run if all I'm changing is one file. I kind of
>> confused
>> on how 'ant reload' is supposed to be used in the context of these
>> files. I
>> guess for 'ant reload' I would have to manually copy the output of
>> javac to
>> the tomcat folder? Does anyone have a more elegant build.xml file (or
>> have
>> a suggestion for creating one.)
>>
>> Thank you very much. A solution to this problem will no doubt save me
>> a lot
>> of development time.
>>
> ant reload simply reloads a web application. Therefore, if you update
> MyFile.java and compile it to
> $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/myWebApp/WEB-INF/classes/MyFile.class, you can
> call ant reload on that specific web application to reload the web
> application so your changes take effect.
>
> Dan
>
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