Ant Template file to build a Java Project
Here’s a Apache Ant template file , best use to start a project from scratch.
File : build.xml
<project name="ProjectName" default="dist" basedir=".">
<description>
Project Description
</description>
<!-- set global properties for this build -->
<property name="projectName" value="ProjectName"/>
<property name="src" location="src"/>
<property name="build" location="build"/>
<property name="dist" location="dist"/>
<property name="webcontent" location="WebContent"/>
<target name="init">
<!-- Create the time stamp -->
<tstamp/>
<!-- Create the build directory structure used by compile -->
<mkdir dir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="init"
description="compile the source " >
<!-- Compile the java code from ${src} into ${build} -->
<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="dist" depends="compile"
description="generate the distribution" >
<!-- Create the distribution directory -->
<mkdir dir="${dist}/lib"/>
<!-- Put everything in ${build} into the {$projectName}-${DSTAMP}.jar file -->
<jar jarfile="${dist}/lib/${projectName}-${DSTAMP}.jar" basedir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="war" depends="compile"
description="generate the distribution war" >
<!-- Create the war distribution directory -->
<mkdir dir="${dist}/war"/>
<!-- Follow standard WAR structure -->
<copydir dest="${dist}/war/build/WEB-INF/" src="${webcontent}/WEB-INF/" />
<copydir dest="${dist}/war/build/WEB-INF/classes/" src="${build}" />
<jar jarfile="${dist}/war/${projectName}-${DSTAMP}.war" basedir="${dist}/war/build/"/>
</target>
<target name="clean"
description="clean up" >
<!-- Delete the ${build} and ${dist} directory trees -->
<delete dir="${build}"/>
<delete dir="${dist}"/>
</target>
</project>
Hi Yong,
how do i add jar to ear file using fileset tag /ant build?
i am not able to add jar file from build directory.
Thanks in advance
Do you have an example of using JDK 6 style classpath with ANT.
Or alternately,
How can I translate a String as below ( with the … representing a longer string / list )
[echo] websphere.libs.convert: C:\Software\WAS85\Scheduler\*;C:\Software\WAS85\UDDIReg\*;C:\Software\WAS85\bin\*;C:\Software\WAS85\configuration\*;…C:\Software\WAS85\web\*;C:\Software\WAS85\wlp
to the below format using ANT
which can then be used in
The last element in the conversion also needs to add the ‘\*’ part which is not in the original string.
Thaks in advance for your help
thank you good sir. I’ve been following you on Twitter 🙂 keep up the good work and thanks for helping me so much!